I’m sorry

I’m sorry you’ve been conditioned to think it’s your fault when a man cannot control his sexual urges. I’m sorry I believed it too and didn’t say something sooner. 

I’m sorry you’ve carried this weight, this cloud of shame that has loomed over your whole adult life. I’m sorry you’ve had to look in the mirror and wonder which part of you attracts the thievery of your innocence. 

I’m sorry that the people you trusted blatantly implied that you had it coming. I’m sorry that the people you should have trusted are distant. 

I’m sorry that you feel like you’re going to have to carry it around forever. A man’s shame has always been a woman’s burden. 

I’m sorry you never learned to love; only use. I’m sorry you’re not a hugger. It’s a beautiful thing, but every time you let your guard down they groped you. 

I’m sorry that you don’t see yourself past all these years. I’m sorry that my silence only strengthened yours. 

I’m sorry. 

Bleeding font….

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You will write. 

Some days you will write and it will change the world…

Other days you will write and it will break your heart…

Where it doesn’t rain

You will know people

And they will slip from your grasp

And you will have to let them go…

Naked mile

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It’s scary, 

that while I’m here struggling with yesterday, fighting today, 

the future still holds it’s freedom to do whatever it wants to me.

 And when it gets here I’ll have to fight that too…..

Expensive words

You see love, 

the thing is, 

you will thrive again. 

~mbithe~

Love

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“Yeah, maybe I’m a bad, bad, bad, bad person, 

Well, baby, I know.
And these fingertips, 

Will never run through your skin;
Because you love, love, love, 

When you know I can’t love you.” 
– Of monsters and men. 

The pawn

It’s a different kind of terrifying when your thoughts make fun of you.

Picture perfect

Like
books and baskets,
barefoot beauty,
coffee the color of love,
wild flowers and cocoa,
Untamed spice…
You have my heart.

Stranger in my mirror

Who are you?

Sad eyes

Don’t run
Come back
What do you have there?
Let me see
Hey
I want to be your friend

I’m stuck here, can you help me?

Hush…don’t cry
I’ll teach you smiles

Why?

Because I like you

Why?

You look familiar

Why?

I know you

How?

You are me
I am made of you.

Out of the black

Like humpty but
You sat on the pier
Wood worn out
Far too long held

Until not
Tumble tumble drown
Water gave you it’s depth
Took your air for price
It’s icy hands chocked
Weed tangled in your breath
Then you were nothing
Until you became the black
Owned the black
Friended the black

Give in, give out

You CAN breathe underwater.