Because we need this. Hey, youLook at me.Look into my eyes.I mean it –Stop what you’re doing,Come close,Look into my eyes.Give me your hands,I want to feel your grasp.I will not let go.Keep looking into my eyes. You.I love you.I love you so fu**ing much.Okay?
Tag: love
Poem 148 – on sharing the same birthday with my son
On sharing the same birthday with my son possessed by loveriveted by miraclesconvulsing in the painful thrusting trustof my woman’s body to release a child –this work of delivering lasts beyond the 27 hoursit took to move him from my womb to my chestparts of me were demolished & rebuilt now I repeat this destruction… Continue reading Poem 148 – on sharing the same birthday with my son
Poem 129 – in every woman, a mother
in every woman, a mother a woman lovesimmaculateher womb holds lifeconceived in the gloriesof generations pastin unity with her ownextraordinary magic beyond the woundsfrom yesterday’s villainsa woman leaps – flailing gracefullyinto the open mouthof labour’s bulging face she chooses birthon the sun-lifted dawnof each fresh daybelly hard withhope or human or both a woman is… Continue reading Poem 129 – in every woman, a mother
Poem 89 – Tears
tears there are always enough tearsgathering in the brookssplaying from my soulmeandering searching rushing expressing the languages of lovethat hold everything unconditionallyeven when my heart is a concrete damthe tears make way erode erupt offer me somethingto feel to taste to discoverthere are always enough tearsthis is my love language today
VANESSA SHIELDS 