Submissions by BlkLyrycE
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I'm just a wonderer... I tell stories from both personal experiences as well as from those around me. Everyone has a story to tell...I just so happen to be the one to tell them at times.
LOVE POEM
Published
22nd May 2022 12:10pm
22nd May 2022 12:10pm
My Queen
I need to love you just as much as I love the skin that you are in
Kiss your skin as if I were the one who blessed you with the melanin that resides within it
Be purified by the words that escapes from your mouth whenever you say my name
Comfort the tears that are released from your heart and cater to the mind that is comfortably sitting behind your eyes
I guess what I am trying to say is that I need to love you from a molecular level
I want to embrace every part of you
Examine the woman that you are and excel in all of your teachings
Understand the...
Kiss your skin as if I were the one who blessed you with the melanin that resides within it
Be purified by the words that escapes from your mouth whenever you say my name
Comfort the tears that are released from your heart and cater to the mind that is comfortably sitting behind your eyes
I guess what I am trying to say is that I need to love you from a molecular level
I want to embrace every part of you
Examine the woman that you are and excel in all of your teachings
Understand the...
#love
#relationships
#FallingInLove
603 reads
1 Comment
ANGER POEM
Published
17th May 2022 5:06pm
17th May 2022 5:06pm
I'll Wait
#violence
#LifeStruggles
#racism
#frustration
#HumanRights
484 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Feb 2022 10:03am
13th Feb 2022 10:03am
Dangerous Streets
I woke up one day and realized that I had a lot of hate in my heart
It was within my blood, my thoughts weighed heavy on this
As my tears scorched my face, too hot to wipe away
Too angry to justify my reasons for this hate
So therefore I picked up this smile
And I placed it upon my face
Though my eyes spoke its truth my mouth refused to vocalize
Although my hands wanted to react my arms refused to initiate
Yet still I walked with hate, I wore it, like I wore my flesh
It was me and I was clearly it
I would say that I was taught this hate, or...
It was within my blood, my thoughts weighed heavy on this
As my tears scorched my face, too hot to wipe away
Too angry to justify my reasons for this hate
So therefore I picked up this smile
And I placed it upon my face
Though my eyes spoke its truth my mouth refused to vocalize
Although my hands wanted to react my arms refused to initiate
Yet still I walked with hate, I wore it, like I wore my flesh
It was me and I was clearly it
I would say that I was taught this hate, or...
#strength
#conflict
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#racism
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1 Comment
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
23rd Jan 2022 5:53pm
23rd Jan 2022 5:53pm
Humble Yourself
Don’t ever forget that you were there too
The world leaned its weight down on your back
Broke and struggling skipped hand and hand up and down your block on the regular
And how in the hell am I going to get through this was a song that your mind replayed over and over again
Regardless of how low your low was you were still at a place where you damn near lost your mind
You were no exception to the rules
That anxiety was locked and loaded and you had to figure out which step you would take that would not cause you to fall to your mental death
Don’t ever...
The world leaned its weight down on your back
Broke and struggling skipped hand and hand up and down your block on the regular
And how in the hell am I going to get through this was a song that your mind replayed over and over again
Regardless of how low your low was you were still at a place where you damn near lost your mind
You were no exception to the rules
That anxiety was locked and loaded and you had to figure out which step you would take that would not cause you to fall to your mental death
Don’t ever...
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#LifeChangingMoment
547 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
5th Jan 2022 12:21pm
5th Jan 2022 12:21pm
Unfazed
I can see the confusion forming across your face
These words that you have spoken so proudly, watch as they drift ever so swiftly down to the ground
And as every letter dissolve into the mouth of nonsexist
Allow me to explain to you why I say that I will be that
Although you think that you have interrupted my path you have only given me more momentum
You not wanting me to succeed is giving me all the more reason to do just that
I cannot help that you have woken up and choose toxic from your bag of options
I cannot help that today I had made the decision to...
These words that you have spoken so proudly, watch as they drift ever so swiftly down to the ground
And as every letter dissolve into the mouth of nonsexist
Allow me to explain to you why I say that I will be that
Although you think that you have interrupted my path you have only given me more momentum
You not wanting me to succeed is giving me all the more reason to do just that
I cannot help that you have woken up and choose toxic from your bag of options
I cannot help that today I had made the decision to...
#identity
#LifeStruggles
#inspirational
#racism
#SelfWorth
323 reads
1 Comment
SELF POEM
Published
31st Dec 2021 1:31pm
31st Dec 2021 1:31pm
I Learned
This year I learned to never fall in love with a stranger
I learned that they will steal your heart, and break it
That not everyone is going to be sensitive to your feelings and that what you have…is usually the only thing that they want
Because of course you have something that they want, and they will tell you any and everything that you want to hear to get it
This year I learned how to respect myself
I learned that in order to become what I need to become I will have to face my demons and beat my insecurities at their own game
Because of course it is...
I learned that they will steal your heart, and break it
That not everyone is going to be sensitive to your feelings and that what you have…is usually the only thing that they want
Because of course you have something that they want, and they will tell you any and everything that you want to hear to get it
This year I learned how to respect myself
I learned that in order to become what I need to become I will have to face my demons and beat my insecurities at their own game
Because of course it is...
#motivational
#inspirational
#uplifting #learning
#uplifting #learning
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2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
31st Dec 2021 1:28pm
31st Dec 2021 1:28pm
Severing Ties
I thought about calling you
Thought about everything from what I would say if you were to answer the phone and if you didn’t
Hell I even thought about how long the text would be if I even decided to send it
This was until I though about what the outcome would be
To be in your presence although would be amazing
I am not sure if I would want to be lied too…again
How many times must a person say that they don’t want you before you actually believe them?
In reality I would say once but when in your feelings it is really multiple
And from there you have to...
Thought about everything from what I would say if you were to answer the phone and if you didn’t
Hell I even thought about how long the text would be if I even decided to send it
This was until I though about what the outcome would be
To be in your presence although would be amazing
I am not sure if I would want to be lied too…again
How many times must a person say that they don’t want you before you actually believe them?
In reality I would say once but when in your feelings it is really multiple
And from there you have to...
#heartbroken
#UnrequitedLove
#MovingOn #healing
#MovingOn #healing
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SELF POEM
Published
23rd Dec 2021 4:19pm
23rd Dec 2021 4:19pm
I am not okay
Sometimes telling me that everything is going to be okay just does not sit well in my soul
You see its very easy to roll those words off your tongue with ease as I sit uneasy in this situation that I am currently in.
Recite the lords prayer over and over until my mind becomes numb to these issues that are flooding my mind
While cursing myself out for being or rather feeling too weak to endure a continuous cycle of disappointment.
Am I supposed to continue to weather this storm?
Reach out my hands to up high and beg for repentance for the sins that I knew I was going...
You see its very easy to roll those words off your tongue with ease as I sit uneasy in this situation that I am currently in.
Recite the lords prayer over and over until my mind becomes numb to these issues that are flooding my mind
While cursing myself out for being or rather feeling too weak to endure a continuous cycle of disappointment.
Am I supposed to continue to weather this storm?
Reach out my hands to up high and beg for repentance for the sins that I knew I was going...
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
#honesty #racism
#honesty #racism
399 reads
1 Comment
LOVE POEM
Published
27th Nov 2021 6:05pm
27th Nov 2021 6:05pm
The Other
I do not know if it was having to say good bye that brought about these feelings that I had. Or maybe me wanting to be loved by you…the urge of wanting to cling too that last glimpse of hope that you were really the one and my search was finally over, warmed my blood to the highest degree…right before feverish.
It was almost frighting,
I told myself that if this were truly the case that I would make sure that I made this work. That this kiss would last far beyond time and space. This kiss…we will feel even if we are reborn under different circumstances…there would not...
It was almost frighting,
I told myself that if this were truly the case that I would make sure that I made this work. That this kiss would last far beyond time and space. This kiss…we will feel even if we are reborn under different circumstances…there would not...
#relationships
#LGBT
#lover #ForbiddenLove
#lover #ForbiddenLove
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Aug 2021 9:24pm
28th Aug 2021 9:24pm
Dear Old Black Man
Dear Old Black Man at what point will you admit where you have failed?
Where we all have failed to achieve the goals of our rememberable past.
These accomplishments that you hold so dear to your heart.
That dwells beneath the melanin that is protecting the legacy that you speak so highly of.
At what point do we bring up the abandonment?
The insecurities that has now plagued us, the disconnection of what once was then…that has now became our own demise now?
Where did you go?
At what point did you think that it was okay to walk away and return without...
Where we all have failed to achieve the goals of our rememberable past.
These accomplishments that you hold so dear to your heart.
That dwells beneath the melanin that is protecting the legacy that you speak so highly of.
At what point do we bring up the abandonment?
The insecurities that has now plagued us, the disconnection of what once was then…that has now became our own demise now?
Where did you go?
At what point did you think that it was okay to walk away and return without...
#TruthOfLife
#nonfiction
#LifeStruggles
380 reads
4 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Jul 2021 1:46am
18th Jul 2021 1:46am
Old Black Man (Black and Ignorant)
My name is Old Black Man,
But this is not about me…it is about you
It is about the name that you call yourself.
The person that lies beyond those brown eyes
That is residing within that flesh that is clinging so firmly to that flesh that is draped upon them bones.
It’s about the blood that is racing around those veins that lies just below that melanin that is resting in that skin.
You say that you know who you are but continue to lie to me.
And if you are not lying then you cannot possibly know who you are.
So therefore...
But this is not about me…it is about you
It is about the name that you call yourself.
The person that lies beyond those brown eyes
That is residing within that flesh that is clinging so firmly to that flesh that is draped upon them bones.
It’s about the blood that is racing around those veins that lies just below that melanin that is resting in that skin.
You say that you know who you are but continue to lie to me.
And if you are not lying then you cannot possibly know who you are.
So therefore...
#LifeStruggles
#TruthOfLife
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2 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
18th Feb 2021 10:37am
18th Feb 2021 10:37am
Be Great
I want you to be happy
I want your eyes to light up like the skies do during a warm summers night in the backwoods overlooking the mountains
I want your heart to flutter and your excitement to overflow like a child’s sprit when they finally get that reward for being...simply great
I just want that...for you
I took the brunt of it all
Overcame the obstacles and battled within my being on and off throughout the years
Told myself that this form of love is an honor a privilege to even experience
My soul...
I want your eyes to light up like the skies do during a warm summers night in the backwoods overlooking the mountains
I want your heart to flutter and your excitement to overflow like a child’s sprit when they finally get that reward for being...simply great
I just want that...for you
I took the brunt of it all
Overcame the obstacles and battled within my being on and off throughout the years
Told myself that this form of love is an honor a privilege to even experience
My soul...
#relationships
#LifeChangingMoment
#learning
#SelfWorth
#manipulation
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