
Sweet Dreams [Poetry]
Sleeping. it looks like you’re sleeping i wonder what you dream of as everyone around you is weeping Silence. the room is silent because

Sleeping. it looks like you’re sleeping i wonder what you dream of as everyone around you is weeping Silence. the room is silent because

Popping pills. One after another; been doing so ever since we were children. Open bottle. Take one. Swallow. Drink. Pills haunt us, cure

My mother is a baker, a young, bubbly baker, Her and her twin sister skip down the paved roads. all the way to the grocery

My arms shake and my heart races. Time swoops down from the sky, flaunting its feathers in front of my face It grazes my fingers

I lost myself for a moment in your eyes. And I can’t lie every moment with you has been bliss. But I miss the part

I said goodbye to my family, I said goodbye to my dog, I said goodbye to the home I once was a part of A

For some time, I was ashamed of my own name. The length, the complexity It was all too much to explain. Many would call it

My Escape As I look through the reflective glass I think I think of all the pain it’s caused me I think of how my

Beauty, I’ve learned, must never be rushed Nine months are required, at least Beauty can’t be bought, no matter what is said or seen For

Friends, there is a miracle for praise to be! For the Goddess of Justice can finally see! With the balancing scales in her right hand,

During winter a Flower bloomed White and pure just as you’d assume She was told to keep her nectar to herself As one day bees

In the beginning We were together as one Living united under kingdoms Flourishing beneath our African sun Like the devil in disguise Greed conquered the