Black Poetry : I need a smile (open-mic joint)

dnommo

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I need a smile…

So I shall close my eyes and
Inhale the sweetest of joy and
Embrace the calmest of thoughts and
Reach out my arms to imagine
You…walking my way ready to
Find comfort in my seclusion
For no other has been here and
No other will until you appear
To take your rightful place
Returning as a rib reformed
Rebuilt, remade, re…manifested
As the part of me that completes
The cage surrounding the most
Intimate part of my being…
You are the key, not the key holder
For the chamber that unlocks
My innermost secrets can only be
Filled by one that my “free will”
Can trust and my “Spirit” can recognize,

I…need…a…smile…

so I shall lay quietly in the tall grass
and listen to the moving of the breeze
and hear the playfulness of sparrows
and imagine you laying next to me
with your arm resting on my chest
playing with the third button down
on my linen shirt and I can hear your
thoughts of tomorrow as they are
released on the next exhale you
direct towards me when you fall
gently off into a peaceful comforting sleep,

I…need…a…smile…

so I shall sit back into your lap
allowing my head to rest trustfully
on your knees as you take each loc
of my hair and twist it, twists it,
twist it, twist…it, t-w-ist…it,
into the strength and fullness of all
it could be and I have found my smile
for I know that you have been here
with me through the good and bad,
ups and downs, trials and tribulations
when my loc’s were nothing more
than a thought staring at me from
the mirror reflection of a bald man…

I…have…my…smile…
 

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