Boi

Inside and out

I’ve imagined sunshiny moonlights crossing paths with black cats

Resting assured the we don’t meditate on thoughts .. 

thinking only in sub titles 

and its foreign to me that you only see clear shadows .. 

blackened moments brighten my day.. imagine that. 

In fact .. 

how soon we forget the bliss of ignorant sweet dreams 

and salty wounds hidden in depths of unspoken memories. 

You are not who I pretend to see 
©️Vernette Harris 2018

Expectancy

Dedicated to my sins

Devoted transgressions to divine law

I prosper in peace

Piecing apart unspoken movement

Conflicted on the erect joy dangling

Engulfing my inner shift

Suffering never felt so good

We drift, I seek air amass the watering

Watered down indulgence

Ejecting a pink silhouette

But you promised me crimson type shit

I digress

We stayed true to two

and one thing for certain False Gods blessed

Clearly undressed, 

But to deceive a phantom,

How touching it is to embrace hope

Wishing a motherfucker would just learn to love

©Vernette Harris 2017

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!

SERENDIPITY

And like the seasons 

To be predictably unpredictable

We've fallen into each other's sunshine

We've melted into each others cool

Hovering in doubt.. We bend

Fallaciously straightening our curves

The authenticity in our faults

Our brokenness mends... How cruel to be so loving

Time teaches us to cry

Screams silent soliloquies in ardor

And we blow each other in spence

Unfulfilled and so full of the obvious 

We ignore soulfully 

Thoroughly amazing 

Our moments are clear at midnight 

Unclear.. Betwixt twilight and dawn

Unawakened by fear.. 

We share space interrupted 

Love has conquered us

Bullied its way toward freedom

Leaving our minds blurry and grey 

Carelessly ignoring its silhouette 

Should we ever... 

©Vernette Harris 2014

Trouble sleeping

Rocks so solid

Arise like certitude 

We meld

Complete and...

Uninterrupted truths and such

How can I be so translucent?

My skin so sticky

Like Braille upon your membrane

How could you understand where I'm coming from?

We be like in reverse

Running from palpitating inner thoughts. 

No love lost, I suppose 

And love so stubborn 

It stains crimson matter 

Tracing the roots of

My sins to the core of my soul..

I loosen your flow

Boldly tilting the balance that don't exist 

In other words, I'm tripping

Leaning to side of indifference

Im stretched so deep

The flood that ensues

Troublesome. 

Soul stirring 

My Nile has erupted. 

I-firmative

Breath....ing

Outside the conception of I never had

Sensations and typos of love

Make it go lustfully and sun settings

I belong

Touching each sleepless thought

Heartache never felt so alive

Waking up to hollow dreams

Walking silently into---passion

Passionately

I belong 

The song begins to play our end

Settled in your speechless tongue

Layered beneath broken promises

Hopeless in shattered hopes

Regrets bloom so lovely 

I belong 

 

Rebel destiny and grasp wandering air

Trust my graceful silhouette 

I lie loosely into the crevices of your certain untruths 

Belonging to you.me.we

Moving mountain tops and 

Rising rivers we cease to-

Afraid to attach a memory 

To nothing more than 

Distant whispers 

We be longing 

Carefully un-placing fingerprints

Intentionally unloving you

Defying sweet things and such 

Into city lights and the moon lit country side

I belong 

Thinking of two 2 trains

At speeds of harmonious desire

Towards brooks- lingering 

I reach waves and oceans 

Drowning 

At the thought

Of 

Us belonging 

Simply 

©Vernette Harris 2014