Poetry By Ber-Henda Williams

Chronos

Time will tell you how much I love you!

It will not be marked in quantities like days, weeks or even years… it will collapse into infinity, and it can only be felt.

My love will fill your heart’s empty spaces and fill the caverns with my good intentions.

This love lives in the Kairos and springs eternal.

Kisses hold the sequences.

The moments of our bodies merging keep the mysteries of our union.

Love in its entirety

Love in its vastness

Love in its perfection

Measure my love in the times I put kisses on your face.

Measure my love in the times I smile at you.

Measure my love outside the boundaries of time and space.

Measure my love in heartbeats!

Deep breaths

The inhale

The exhale

Time is a cruel mistress indeed, but fate would provide us grace and reprieve.

Time will tell you how much I love you! Listen my love…she’s speaking now.

Ber-Henda Williams Copyright 2021 ©

Affinity

He pulls me close or better he pulls me inward… He envelopes me and rests his full forearms on the curve of the small of my back and rocks me slowly…it creates a liquid lullaby and I want to be closer.

So close… we merge…

I can breathe for him I breathe him I can see him because all I can see is him…

I can breathe for him…I breathe him.

It’s the kisses on my neck (he’s breathing on me)

It’s the kisses on my collar bone with my arms around his neck. It is us…it colors me whole.

It’s the way he looks at me full of admiration, desire and devotion. When he comes close, I feel the rush of oceans and birthing of stars.

He makes my solar systems revolve! His walk is a cadence that makes me hike my skirt and slow wind my hips…

I want him every night and day I want him…dare I say I need him.

I want a whole life with him…

I want to dance this whole life with him…

I am more than content that my body is his sanctuary…

He rests his weary head on my lap and I would have it no other way…

He reaches for me in his sleep.

He finds himself between my thighs and I gasp, arch, cry, and hold him like he is life itself…

Oh God could a woman love a man more?

Give us another lifetime to test the theory…

He is my favorite slow song…

I am his open love letter…

I am so proud to say he is mine I am overjoyed to say I am his…

I am a woman in love with HER man… Can’t you see it?

Ber-Henda Williams Copyright 2023 (c)

Ber-Henda Williams, a passionate femolutionary and advocate for multiculturalism, art, and womanhood, embodies her name’s Germanic-Greek meaning, “The Bear Hearted Protector.” As a poet, author, TV and film producer, public speaker, and youth advocate, she founded the In(her) Voice Project, amplifying underrecognized feminine populations, and The Power of Girlhood, a leadership program for girls 8-18.

With over 20 years of fluency in Spanish, she has been a guest lecturer, served as a poetry programming consultant, and hosted cultural events. Ber-Henda has a rich history as a keynote speaker, moderator, and Featured Presenter at events like SXSW 2016 Interactive Track and United Way’s Financial Well-Being Innovation Challenge Launch.

Her media credits include being a CW 50 Community Correspondent and coproducer for the monthly poetry series Poetry, Pages, and Scribes. Inspired by poets like Federico Garcia Lorca, Prince, Nikki Giovanni, and others, Ber-Henda is an ambassador of the arts, nurturing youth poetry with organizations like Inside Out Literary Arts and Figure Skating Detroit. A graduate of Wayne State University, she lives her life in color. Explore more about her at www.ber-hendawilliams.com and listen to her podcast at www.ber-hendawilliams. com/s-projects-basic.