Submissions by saidhenry

Silence
While suffocating, she struggles to recognize her voice
Too many demanding favor in her choice
The face cold, the body dull, the hands moist
Left is no strength for which to hoist
With Intent to oppose dissension she rejoiced
Afterward realizing she had only thought she fled
Silence, a panicked woman demands emancipation from dread
Meaning to fight with all might until the light was spread
Desiring to live instead
With uncertainty heeded and therefore drank lead
In the moment far beyond a thread
Thrown into the abyss unable to tread...

The mind in its creative chaos
Forced realizations of what is left undone
Fear of probability, of actions, and results affecting more than one
Melodies transporting memories we hold
The beautiful budding flower's story untold
Her pain for our gain as she bends to unfold
Muffled humming of blackbird and its meaning
Thoughtless killing of a tree in the prime of its greening
The soul's response to sound no for need preening

Abandonment of who one is to be
Reality hurting all of you and therefore me
Though starved, finding happiness and power by...

This vision functioned as a mechanism  
It telephones a place in life
Before masculinity was a standard, issue or a status to attain  
When naivety was understood and aided with knowledge to gain
Before superficial need of vacant sex partners on the brain would remain

A man
Drew breath through puckered lips
I, also a man was moved as a child in this moment  
He blew bubbles

This vision provoked profound awakening
Reviving the believer of immeasurable possibilities within
Ignorant of self-hate taught through ideology regarding sin...

I watched him as he slept.
I viewed him with a peculiar capacity of sight.
In honor of his beauty, his passion, his warmth and his spirit so bright.
I was embracing light while static and kinetic energy attempt to quantify his might.

He, a gift from the higher being so profound.
Obvious, in the eyes of God his name resounds.
His mind, a well built and oiled machine of creative and productive chaos functioning best in its own time.

Eternally guided by the highest.
Therefore, weapons formed against him behold death in the moment of creation
With...