Ode to my mother’s bone
Her broke best friend
Sucking her pockets
As a newborn latches
Onto mother’s bosom
Loyal ligament
No drug can make it go away
Her beginning
Unfortunately her ending
Lord forbid she put pressure on you
That’s when you fold
Tibia tauntin
Cartilidge crackin
Can’t hold nothin anymore
You know how to fill out disability forms
A devil with no horns
Enchanting rose with many thorns
You interchange hats
Networker of organs
Dismantler of souls
Uprooter of hopes
Stealer of dreams
Pirate of peace
Spreading your ill loving
Over her body
Floating to the brain
Spreading to the belly
Taking up space in the lungs
Kidneys are coming undone
Unconditional love
That leaves nothing behind
But a trail of tears and
An unsettling number of goodbyes
2001 RnB Video
Dew falls off fresh hydrangeas
From my delicate bouquet
The ivory colored chapel doors open
With no delay
Seeing an array of guests
Feelings of being their prey
It’s my day
They say
It’s my day
Decorated with critically woven lace
That drapes around my waist
Choking me in all the right ways
Hands drip with sweat
But my smile takes their attention away from that
It’s my day
They say
It’s my day
At the end of the not so yellow brick road
Lies my sleazy contender
Some say he’s a smooth criminal
For stealing my heart
To tear me apart
Made me do math for no reason
Hid puzzle pieces around my home
Never knew that was why I couldn’t solve the equations
Of how you came home late everyday
Started to think you were all work no play
But I was the one that didn’t get no play
It’s my day,
They say
It’s my day
To be free from your lies
I threw the peonies in your face
It was like licking the icing from our never to be touched wedding cake
I’m reclaiming my space
The guests gasped as they watched the switching of my ass
Out of my suffocating past
Grabbed the keys to my getaway mercedes
All one could hear was the rattling of the
Chicken noodle soup cans
It’s my day
They say
It’s my day