
i believe up until
God cracked Adam’s rib,
that man had not yet
considered he was breathing.
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i believe some would call this a gift.
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we are not born beautifully…
everyone must blossom and bud.
i am a natural mother,
i understand the price paid for life with blood.
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if there were an element
that we should base life upon:
it would be carbon, i assume.
so why do i base
the life i have been gifted
on the likes of you?
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is it because you are a kiss;
a cellular conception
multiplied by folds of four
balanced betwixt my hips?
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a perfect prophecy
of proud ancestry
proclaimed from the mouth
of the royal He …
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is it how now
is an infinity;
now is when He speaks.
now is where we meet;
black, dull, and ungleaming
life without you.
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blackness of bare earth
at the tale end of winter.
no promise of green
except for the old knowledge:
knowing storms always
run dry of rain;
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knowing cold months of winter
bring forth warm nights
of summer and spring.
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understanding pain
forecasts growth;
and love
foreshadows pain.
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how men and women
were never made the same.
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my memories look like
the red glow in the rearview mirror,
if you and i were a one way street.
red light in the dead of night
dimming every imperfection.
these brightest spots
are all we can still see,
fading into the black like dusk.
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i believe in black holes.
black eyes big as pansies,
so big they could swallow me up.
bold and italicized by
ethnic ambiguity.
dense in gravity.
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behold: you are so ambitious,
and we felt so endless;
infinity masquerading as security.
i found myself staring intent
while you flew west,
watching your eyes offset
the sunset
until they were just
two specks of dust.
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i believe the apocalypse is
a midlife crisis,
and an untimely break-up.
i believe never ending
life is a sentence given
to those who allow a mirage
to manipulate their minds;
a viscous cycle of
‘if we meet again‘s’.
paranoid hallucinations
that crazy men
call heaven.
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no. it makes no sense.
i call bullshit!
i request hard evidence.
we exist because a woman
paid her blood for it.
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i believe
Adam sacrificed nothing
when Eve was conceived.
i believe Adam broke
his own rib,
so Eve ‘d cave-in
and care for him
before he re-wrote history
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oh and, yes.
i believe Lilith existed.
i believe Lilith’s burning kiss
burned because
Adam was fucking selfish.
-six pm | *this is not a love poem
❤️
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