Perfect Strangers
By Damarcus Ivey
Most times when it’s love?
Even in denial it’s hard to deny the energy
Though sometimes love can
Turn lovers into strangers with some memories …
I quietly envy those
Who can easily become emotionally attached
The heart is irrational with no knowledge of time or distance
It is emotionally limitless!
‘Til we taint it with our limits
Standards that eventually grow into Stage 4 cancers
Slowly killing off
Love and its attachments
Leaving only empty promises
In places lovers used to find passion …
Have you
Ever been in love?
Then awoke one morning
And nothing was as it used to be?
Whereas you and the love you once knew?
Became nothing more
Than two strangers with some memories …
Emotional Mazes
By Damarcus Ivey
Ever thought about why is it
So hard for people to accept when it’s over?
Could it be,
After being drunk in love
We’d rather be emotionally hungover
Than to awake one morning alone
And emotionally sober …
Though it’s impossible to quit cold turkey
And personally?!
I consciously or unconsciously seem to ignore
My lover that is worthy
For conditional lovers which I’d never admit
How their come-and-go love
Has scarred or possibly hurt me!
Ever thought about
How love is like a maze?
An amazing maze full of circles
That always
Seems to lead us back
To where we swore we’d never go back again
Yet ironically …
Is the only place we feel whole again … Damn!
All Voids Matter
By Damarcus Ivey
Does one or both persons have to be in love to make love?
Or is lust only manipulating our desires?!
Which is why you and him only seem to get along
During those moments he’s inside you …
Would you rather he lie to you or lie with you?
Or would you settle for lies
As long as you never have to die alone
Are you happy?
Or you’d rather remain delusional?!
Holding dear to illusions as some people
Who enjoy some of the most beautiful tones
With their eyes closed
Because whether consciously or unconsciously
No one really wants to face the music …
Isn’t it crazy
How quickly feelings can be shaped
When someone fills a void
Gives the attention that one craves
But wasn’t finding
With the fact that there’s nothing more vulnerable
Than a woman with a broken heart
(Nobody wants to be alone)
Normality
By Damarcus Ivey
Have you ever heard
The fastest way to kill
A big dream is to present it to a small mind …
What if, possibly
The individual is limited by the belief
The world is no bigger than his or her environment?
Mother a crack addict
Father may have been supplying her drug of choice
Denied the idea of a baby
After he climaxed
So selling herself became the only means of financial support
Therefore,
The child is raised on struggle and drama
Which in my environment we see as normal
So the child doesn’t even understand
His or her emotional trauma …
The individual’s biggest dream may only be
To escape the reality of crime
And friends, family members whose existence
Are mostly defined inside of their chalk lines
Ever heard no reality
Is the same in all minds?
So what is normal?
Love Cycle
By Damarcus Ivey
Damn …
Love is one of those puzzles
that leaves you exhausted and frustrated.
Sometimes doesn’t it feel
as if love is only this big cycle
where men and women go around
loving the ones they can never have
and neglecting the one right in front of them …
you.
You women and your emotional walls.
The passageways to a woman’s heart are infinite
with every negative experience.
Heartbreak, heartache?
A woman builds new walls.
Some unconsciously build a castle of sadness
around their hearts.
Have you,
ever poured so much into the one you loved
that it left you empty?
And every time you looked for someone else to fill you up
they only left you
with more voids to fill …
Love is
one of those puzzles that leaves you
exhausted and frustrated.
Only Human
By Damarcus Ivey
Sometimes my strength falters
and I feel as if I’ve had enough.
Those are the nites
I can feel my emotional wall cracking up.
In those moments?
I realize that I am only human after all.
Tears standing on the slants of my eyes.
And I am afraid to let them fall.
Why?! Because I usually hide my hurt
behind my anger, suppressing my emotions
with hope, no one notices the changes
in my walk due to all these burdens on my shoulders.
Life is only smoking mirrors and
we are all just characters who are in/out of character
looking in life’s mirror
wondering who is staring back at us?
Going to and fro ‘til we reach our final destination.
Seems I’ve been everywhere once though I’ve only been pacing,
pacing back and forth from a corner to a cell … Then
last night, I just fell
and prayed all nite in the corner of a cell.
P.S. Even the strongest man is only human.
P.O.V.s
By Damarcus Ivey
We’re all in the same building.
We just have different views.
Most times most of us have no clue
who is truly for you!
Ironically, the big things we’ll endure.
The small things will separate us,
end friendships and/or relationships.
Therefore, emotions can literally blind us.
Some people can’t move forward, always focused on their past,
only seeing what’s supposed to be behind them.
I used to be a “physical” jeweler,
constantly in search of rare diamonds,
though I’ve made a habit of only finding pieces
that do not fit into anything timeless.
The women I’ve encountered were only beautiful to me.
for a limited amount of timing …
I am toxic so being for me is sorta like climbing a mountain.
One or the other usually gives up before they’ve climbed it.
Honestly, you won’t know love until you’ve lost it.
So how will you keep, not lose the one meant for you?
Once you understand,
we’re all in the same building.
We just have different views …
Queens Never Settle
By Damarcus Ivey
A woman’s first love determines
how she loves all those afterwards …
Heartbreaks are contagious.
You hurt others by your unwillingness
to give your all.
Due to your fear of being hurt again
a man’s level of security he provides
allows room for a woman to be vulnerable.
No need for her to be hard.
His tenderness allows her to feel safe to be submissive.
She doesn’t feel pressed to lead
when he never leads her astray.
Independence, control isn’t an issue
when everything is under control …
Your lover should never rush nor neglect your desires
by chasing his own pleasure.
Each stroke she should feel in her stomach
tapping on her heart
whenever his eyes roam over her body?
It should make every imperfection feel appreciated …
This man?!
Should be the standard and everyone else that
isn’t him nor doing these things
is loving you wrong …
First you gotta know what you deserve.
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