She read to our class about rape and race, More freckles than tears on her beautiful face. She smiled and said reach out anytime, A few months later, I did, when I felt my prime. The kindness was gone, the smile dead. Her rejection drilled…

Close your eyes and fall. Fall into that abyss that lies silently behind your line of sight, Fall into a place where your thoughts are violent, But your mind is still. Close your eyes and fall into the darkness.   Let the emptiness caress your…

Shine, carry the light. Darkness can’t cover pure love, a beacon of hope.

Every day you find a new struggle, A mountain to climb, a journey to start You look at your child with determination Find the strength to go on in your heart. You battle your fears and frustrations, Wondering how you got here. With a wondrous…

Told never to succeed. Told never to make something important. Told worthless effort. Told wrong, everything wrong. Well, success was not easy. Well, it was important to a few. Well, effort changed things. Well, not everything wrong, but not everything right. Somehow I made it…

Beginning Today is my new day, a me day, a starting over renewal to improve myself, remake my internal image from the outside in, inside out. After a sprinting 4 or 5 mile ride on my bedroom bike, I’ll shower, slather coconut-scented conditioner on my…

City-glitters. You would have said that this photograph sucks. I would have laughed at that. And that would have been my favourite photograph. Of these city-glitters. For you were my city-glitter. May be more. May be less. Who knows. Tiny sparkles of light caressing the…

To be so tall and strong, woman, you must have steel and grace enough to know your lovers were not tightly laced, concealed and the corset that bound you wasn’t a limit, but a cage to stop them from seeing you, unstoppable. Tigress, I wonder….

It is I The little girl with the braided locks In her pinafore with the matching socks, Her eyes filled with stories untold It was I, a little miracle, waiting to unfold. That lovely lass, in the afternoon sun, Full of life, gaiety, and mindless…

In this darkness When I was lost, with no vision You called out my name When I was hopeless Drowning in despair You reached out to me You didn’t lie, didn’t say it would be okay You were just there Listening to me And today,…