Audio poem by @poetry

"Dreams are necessary to life." - Anais Nin

What I am by @kb_the_poet
{ Hassan Kibwana }

What mountain have I not climbed?
What street have I not walked?
Which waters have I not swam?
All in the name of love

Why does it amuse
If I don`t expect much
When second chance is a myth 
Another belief I am past

Simplicity be my path
Better, pull your act
My heart is vulnerable to such

Easy to hate
So is to love
Even to lust
Don`t mess me up
I am what I am
https://tgio.net/re/FromHeartAndMind

I am blessed
Although I can't account for much
I still can consider a bunch
Even though lately am a stranger in my church
Never been casted out of the big guy watch
Everyday feels like am running out of time
So every second am thinking of how to earn the extra dime
Looking forward to better days and turn lemonade whenever I get lime
Tough times being a son in the galaxy
Shity solar system circulated with planets of bills
I know what poverty feels
Its not easy climbing those hills
So when I get something to fill my stomach 
Am way up I feel blessed
Thankful for every breathe I get to go and sweat
Wisdom in my struggle to survive the jungle
Hustle after hustle to one day build a castle
Not giving up my dream of living up stream
Doesn't matter if the chances are thin am here to win
So whatever it seems me and God we are the perfect team
Am way up I feel blessed

Nightmare

I dreamed a dream once upon a time:
I dreamed a dream  which filled me with grime
They say, such dreams we call nightmares
Nightmares? They come without a sign
They come from the darkest of fears within our minds

Fear, I imagine, lies cold within the dark of night
I once slept soundly but I’m haunted by apparent ghosts
Appear to me, a girl’s apparition
White dress by the door, she smiles
White of my eye, she strangles
White is the light, she inflicts pain
Like cancer does from starburst eyes.
I asphyxiate

I live a dead life
drip, drip
My blood flows within my flooding fountain
My blood I see turn
to puddles
to shallows
to a growing swimming pool
My body has died
I must rest in peace
I must rest in
I must rest
I must
I.

From Blossoms

by Li-Young LeeFrom blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.

From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background, from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.


@poetry

#adult -ish

A peck here, and a kiss there.

A gasp from me, a sigh from you.

You craft a bruise on me, but it's a mark to you.

I slam my eyes shut seeking remembrance -what was it like to have that flare, where I bereaved the faintest gleam- to no avail.

Is it purity that you're after?
But... you don't chase cherubs to hell, do you, darling? 

Against those cold bricks, you turned into a recess.
I've relinquished virtue's hand too soon, so I tripped into the squalid path.

Now, heave my naivety up to peak, then leave me to dive into the lethe.

I'll perform to your desire. After all, I barged you into this, into the scrapes of my soul.

So worry not, for you won't hear my cries or feel my scars, you will only hear the joy chriping out of my lips, and sense the earthquakes as they tell you I'm pleased.

#Draft 83

Naive Mistake
29-01-2020.

*SORRY MAMA*
Am sorry mama i won't come back today
Neither tomorrow nor any of the days
Mama am sorry but by tonight you might
Loose your precious child
By tonight she might join your forefathers 
By tonight she might be celebrating with your ancestors 
Mama am sorry

The weak can't forgive,forgiveness is the attribute of the strong 
Mama i know you have always been strong 
Since my childhood
Please mama find a place in your heart to forgive 
The rope she went with to bring firewood 
Mama
Your daughter gonna use it to take her own life
Mama am sorry 

A loveless life is living death and i don't want to continue living this life
Mama,i hate him,he has completely ruined my life
Mama did you tell me that blood is thicker than water?
But no mama it is not,the water now is thicker than the blood
You entrusted him with your own daughter's life 
But mama he is not your brother but a beast
Mama am sorry

*SORRY MAMA 2*
Trust not a horse's heel nor a dog too
But mama why did you trust him with your daughter?
Mama,is it because he is your brother?
Is it because bird of the same feather flock together?
Mama it hurts,mama it pains me,mama your daughter is depressed
Mama am sorry 

Promises are like pie crust 
Mama, i made a promise to my "uncle"
But am sorry since i won't meet him again 
Am sorry since no one gonna judge me 
Am sorry no one will mock me
soon i will be gonne
So mama allow me to spill the beans now
Mama before am gonne let me tell you why your daughter will leave you
Let me uncover the mask your brother is wearing 
Mama am sorry

The truth hurts,mama am sorry am gonna hurt you now with the truth 
Mama,did you ask me why i love sleeping during the day?
Mama,did you ask me why am always wearing sweater during sunny days?
Mama do you want to know why i have not used my sanitary towels?
Am carrying your grandchild or should i say your niece/nephew 
Mama am sorry....

*SORRY MAMA 3*
Leopard cannot change it's spots
Mama,he raped me,he took away my pride
He made me his sex toy,he molested me 
For weeks mama he made me his wife
For weeks mama, i was abused
Everytime i tried to refuse,he punched me
He threatened me not to tell anyone mama
Now am pregnant,he wants me to abort
But mama i can't,allow me to die with your grandchild 
Mama am sorry

Better to die with honor than to live with shame
Mama,after telling the truth,after they read this 
I will live to hide my face,I will live with shame mama
They will all judge me and mock me
Mama allow me to die than to live a miserable life
Mama allow me to die than living with a crime of abortion
Mama am sorry

Mama,it's time i say goodbye 
It's time i allow death take my body away
Let your mind hold my memories 
Let your heart keep the love for me
Mama i will be on haunt mission to revenge 
Mama,your daughter loved you
Am sorry mama am gonna take my last breath 
Mama please lay me to rest 
Goodbye mama
The end
End of pain

©Mum's Dota 
Bleeding heart©

✅ The scarlet world

The scarlet world smiled;
While the scoundrels,
Made the world scarlet!
And now,
They are smiling together;
Only because,
They chose to be quiet;
Only because,
They believed the world is nothing,
But a divine comedy!
~by Mr. Smile

Drag me down till my feet goes numb
Push me deeper till I see no sight
Tear me up into undifined pieces
Help me misunderstand my existence 
Hide me into never looked places 
Make my name rest in peace
I'm always prepared 
For that is the intention of a new comer
For what is, it's their wish in the first place.

-Taloy

Audio poem by @poetry

To reach the peak
You gotta pass valleys
You gotta take risks that you may fall down
You gotta be courageous enough 
To stand in height .

            _ M.R _

In the end, we kept lying to ourselves and others 
Because we couldn't bare the clarity of what's real
When we had lived for so long with the haze of the lies we told


In the end, it was our lies we decided to hold
@heartlesswoes

A gentle breeze from somewhere
brought the smell of musk,
It reminds me of your tresses
once it used to be.