I've never

I've never met the gaze of his eyes 

And wonder which empty space interrupts our coupling

I read his mind in between lines of quiet 

Never meeting the moment 

Where his hands shakes credence 

We've arrived at future glances and tongues dance in anticipation. 

I crave him forcefully.. banging the notion that we are present in a never ending past of not knowing what desire really is.. 

I've never met the sudden thrust of his whispers .. shadows speaking the unsung love language commonly known to man..rejected and accepted in my hands

We've come further than karma 

Now I must wait for fate

How soon a melody cried time in time 

Waiting for him to meet my stained skin or laughter

Perusing me in strokes and fondle my inner peace .. I surrender 

Never have I ever wanted what I've never. 

©Vernette Harris 2016

Oh Africa

Oh Africa 

Reaching within in search of my mother 

My entire being has been washed before birth

Tampered and smeared in soil

I dig

I find the roots of my blood

But tainted hands are executed

So I live..

Living with an entire lost continent embedded on my lips

My hair longing for mercy

My eyes rebel against me, the devil has raped them to brighten my skin.. Unrecognizable yet acceptable enough to fondle 

My breasts erect and full of liquors,

My suns and moons get drunk off rage

I taste the Nile in my cries so i remain tearless

My mother can't help me and I beg for her.

So I close my eyes and scream her name...oh Africa!