Ferguson

my beautiful black people

Hope Lynn Murphy Hoover "Old Black Lady" 1986

we could right now be in our springtime

we could be spinning magic from starlight

making love with sunshine

could be dancing on the Moon and Mars,

mapping Venus

mining Saturn

could be up

several clouds above this life

standing high

we could be shining

we could be at the end of our long hot summer here

in America

but nigga

instead we here dealing with this bullshit

we in August

and it’s hotter than ever

niggas is getting dropped

deader than flies

po animals

got more rights than us

1415-”When yall first started fucking with us”

1619-“Dragged us to this side coz yall was greedy and lazy”

1700’s-”White folks, stealing and killing”

1865-”Fought a whole war just so you could hold people in slavery”

1965-”Hundred years after the war, we still fighting yall so we can live free”

2014-”yep still fighting”

Dred Scott

no rights which a white man is bound to respect

So I know

we in this alone

aint got no choice

but to ride or die

because it seem

we just gon die anyway

finna drop any day

cops, night watchmen, old dudes

whoever

kill niggas

like flies

in Ferguson

no rights

Love Language

I did not know that there was anyone else who spoke this language, had this sweet way of painting with words and images. You are a gift, a blessing to me.

I adore you.

You have a deep, deep sweetness waiting to spill out of you.
It rises in you like hot sap.

Enough of that

The quantum mechanics of spirit allow us to shadow one another to occupy the same

spaces at the same time, no matter how far apart my body is from yours my spirit is forever next to yours. I must be close to you always or I will be lost.
I will be next to you even when I am dust. Or else I will be lost.

An answer to my most secret and fervent prayers you are.
I wish I could consecrate the ground you walk on...but instead I pray

Birth

She said "From Struggle We Birth Miracles"
I laughed and said "Well then call me Jesus. God of Unconditional Love."
I named it and the Light Shone upon the Deep.
I called you Love, watched you turn into the Moon start spinning and stirring the Oceans.

The water of You is in my body.
Gave Life and Birth and Blood/First Breath all came from you.
My every heartbeat echoes You.
I Am Because We Are.

I knew you in the Beginning before Naming, We were there together.
I knew you.

Now we are many, shining like the stars.

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It was amazing
...I danced for 1,000 years in the dark starlight of her love.
And wandered lost
For 8,000 more
for want of
her long fingered touch
her thorough kisses
Ne'er to be forgotten
her burning and luxurious gaze.
I hear her call
It is the same as my own
heart

I reach for her
to find
only flame and blade.
Only fire and steel.
...I have only these roses and cups of sweet wine
Only these silly ass poems

So I run
I retreat
I turn away
I go
And yet I love still

Black Love on Fire

Black love, on fire
Burns brightest
And then sputters
fails. Needs constant jumpstarts.

Needs nursing sometimes beyond reason.

Swaddling sometimes baby steps...

And then falling

Get back up. Don't quit ever.

Not so many weekend getaways we had
Very few rose petals
But we say yes to lots of bacon and grits

To bedtime bowls and cheerios

We lost that
Now just weary and tired of
Too many lies and secrets and
Non prioritization

Too much rage and fear
Not enough time for redemption
Time and time again
Violation
Foul
No and no and no
Too many negatives

Beat me

you beat me

like hot steel

raw material. ore

refined. pounded into shape

sharp.shift

change I can

i am.

have to

change

Love Poems

I Am Because We Are

I Am Because We Are

Beautiful
Amazing
Glorious
Together
In Love

I Am Because We Are

not ever alone
never again
I was created for you
and you for me

We have become One
Wherever you go
There I am also

And this is not the beginning
or the end of anything
just a continuation
of what has always been
This will always be
We have been preparing for this
our whole lives

I Am Because We Are

devoted, deserving, amazing, beautiful
together and in love

I Am Because We Are

All that I am is committed to you
We are on the Golden Path
living our purpose in Divine Light

I Am Because We Are

in The Ideal State
completely surrounded by Love

I Am Because We Are

completely unafraid
to face anything
so long as it is together
that we face it

And it is this love,
this beautiful perfect Love
that has carried us
from the High Places
of our far off Homeland

Across the oceans into the cotton fields and cities of this new land
and will carry us hand in hand
to our Golden Future

I Am Because We Are

Beautiful
Amazing
Precious
Complete
Together

In Love