09: LGBTQA - Sept 2021

Abortion

19, the curse of the mother. A lineage still curled up in fetus stage,  but it’s kick bold enough to shake the ground it wishes to conquer.  You’re my biggest fear- to have all that I am spill open for the world to see, a mound hot and bloody;  19, don’t take it to heart when I turn my head from your kiss. It’s too frightening, the idea of dropping the weight heavy in my…

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09: LGBTQA - Sept 2021

Waiting For Light In This Dark Closet

Coming out sure was an experience The car was quiet for just a second before the voices blared The demands for explanation The desperate reasonings made in an attempt to convince me otherwise The denial and dagger-like words came immediately. To prove it is not To silence my thoughts To change my truth. Coming out was all in hopes To introduce my love to them To show them what my type of love meant Though…

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09: LGBTQA - Sept 2021

The Day An Angel Cried

The day I left you an angel cried While the sky pierced the ground with her mighty tears, the lonely hummingbird flapped her mesmerizing wings, but she failed to take flight. The day you left me A sorrowful cry left my being as I begged you to come back. My vision too distorted to see that all my screams were running into an infinite lifeless void. Thick spider cobwebs grew on the bed, which was…

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