Moving!!

Peace and blessings! I just wanted to inform anyone interested person that I will be moving - both this blog and my residence. Not only am I building a brand new site (fresh! improved!) but I am just days away from being a homeowner, insha'Allah.

Thank you for all the love and support you have shown me. When things settle down a bit, I will be back!

entangled

entangled


greet the dawn with this
inescapable loneliness
you must be crazy
to tell me such a thing
long ago i prayed
that i would never
see the day
that you turned your back to me
and walked away
leaving me
encased in sorrow
and blanketed with dismay
you made a fool
out of me
had me believing in
your twisted soul
with your crooked tears
calling me
you're both the spider and the snake
sweet talking me
while spinning your web
all around me
and here i thought i was safe with you

and when your false prophecies
failed to come to pass
still i stood by you
fighting those
who insisted on
accusing you
on this last night
of my earthly life
i simply want to say to you
thank you for
the memories
thanks for the lessons
thanks for showing me
the meaning of friends
you
made a fool out of me
but when i look back
i'm just as guilty
i let you use me
i let myself
be used by you
there should be no mystery
i'm no sphinx
i don't guard your tomb
anymore
you released me
from the spell
and i release you
from this hell
please forgive me
for enabling your demise
for listening to you lies
for better and for worse
i overlooked your disguise

welcome the moon
with my head hung low
wanted to save you
thought i could break your bonds
instead i set you adrift
and left myself to hang on
endured the feeling of
powerlessness
endured the scorn
was it for you?
was it for me?
now i'm blind and cannot see
and that's the best news
since i no longer have to be
anything
that contradicts me
goodnight, lover
goodnight, friend

Check It Out!

I have been invited to post over at Women Speak. Come over, read, relax, discuss. I'll see you there!

I Have Been Published!

Well, one of my poems has been published. My poem, 6 A.M. appears in Liberated Muse Volume 1: How I Freed My Soul. Buy it, read it, enjoy it!

why i write

To all those who have asked.....
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why i write


i write
to free my soul
to ease my mind
from the burdens of guilt and pain
from the daily prejudices
against my faith
my color
my sex
my tax bracket
my choice of occupation
my level of dedication
to the struggle
and sometimes
just to be
heard

i write because the words
beg to be freed
from the cages
of hostility
and conformation
because the pen
beseeches me
calls out to me in my sleep
hold me
use me
make me your tool
i only wish
that i could dance
to twist and contort my body
to leap and stomp
to express these things
to give the people
something to see

and i am thanked
by the fluttering of my heart
and
the calmness of my spirit
i have released
the demons
the locks and the chains
the barbed wire has been set aside
and the wall has come down
silently

why do i write
i write
to be
me