HOLY FUCKING JIZZ BALLS!!!!
And now, since the poetry slam's tomorrow, I thought I'd make this a combo post and post what I'm performing there. I had to write up a new poem on the spot this evening cause I was asked to make a lighter, happier, more inspirational poem since everybody else's are pretty much downers and mine was too. I did it lol, even though a lot of my creativity revolves around darker issues.. But i think it's alright. So. Yay. I'm pretty nervous about tomorrow but i did get to do a presentation today so I feel better about this. Anywho.
Do you read me?
The words written clearly across my face,
Crossed out with new words scribbled in their place.
Flip me over to turn the page,
Lift up an arm and a leg to see what’s written on the other side.
I’m so clearly marked up but you still don’t read the truthful
Commiseration polishing the lids of my eyes.
This is my announcement,
Tattooed from my pen to my tongue, I speak
With lingo that carries through bars on windows
To reach the ears of impending lullabies.
And the stars weep with vowels and consonants,
That shower down on me
Flowing together, overlapping until words are sentences are quotes
Of addressed knowledge
As wounds from venomous words are redressed,
Healing words begin to work their magic on each stitch in my skin.
I write on myself as a mirror of language
And focus so you can see my words without having to listen.
So many of us don’t really open our eyes after birth.
Our cultures stay closed off as we figure life out, as we learn
To be imprints of ghosts who sing to us with off-key voices.
The words wrap us up as children in their blanketing folds,
And I hand these words to you with one request that you think
Think about everyone you love,
Think about lazy summer days where we are lucky.
I thank life on my sleeves cause I know that luck isn’t just luck.
It’s a state of mind that you bring from the edges of reality
Into the center of desperation for meaning to be found
Anyone can speak their sound if they never let themselves down
You can think. So if you can think you can write.
And look at how beautiful our lives are.
Beautifully broken and I’m thankful for it.
We take for granted the taste of fresh air.
And sunlight. Because we aren’t buried in a dark, abysmal cave.
When we speak people listen and we echo each other to spread the message.
It’s not that we can’t think for ourselves,
It’s that we are eager for the message to be passed from colossal hand
To small, pudgy fingers, and so on from race to religion
I want to scream, not from anger or from despair
But because I want to.
Everyone should be able to want to.
Everyone should be able to take off the layers and layers of mind-blocking weights
That pad-lock our lips and numb our beliefs
And just let themselves scream.
From seeds to full blown trees we are words that grow more powerful
By each benediction of our pasts.
It’s time to stop treating objects as first loves and first loves as slaves.
It’s time to open our eyes and our ears and our hands to the poignancy
Of love as it seeps lightly into our state of being.
My ears are ringing with the love I have for this life
And with all the heels over head and laughing as I trip,
I’m okay with every thing I face
And I want you to scream if you need to
Because while everyday might hurt more than the next,
I promise, one word and you’ll feel better.
Any word that tentatively touches your trepidation with triumph.
One word that squashes all inhibitions you have about emotion.
Tears are no more a sign of weakness than objects of affection.
Because who you love says nothing about you until you do.
I’m powerless to life so I love it, submit to its whims without fighting it.
But I can still shout at it whenever I want.
I can scream. Because I still want to.
The more I scream the more I get the urge to pour out everything I’ve ever felt.
The more words I speak the more I want to share myself.
And I want you to share yourself too,
Because I’ll take some of you with me wherever I go,
Your words left behind, will be imprints of the you I know,
And I’ll remember and I’ll reminisce and I’ll be so nostalgic I cry,
But the matter of each word you spoke will be threaded around my toes.
And no matter how much I let beasts trample on my feet,
Your words and mine will be my protection in armor that shines.
And forevermore after I go, I will still have my voice.
And without a choice I’ll write my own happy ending,
So I can dictate every detail of this everlasting, insatiable need
To voice what it means to be me.
Tell me what you think. It's kind of long because we're learning to expand. Or some nonsense. :)