Excerpt from my latest and soon to be released poetry book, “Redeemed (A Collection of Poems)”. #thelover #newpoem
Category: Poetry
Forever
I have planted you
In every place I’ve gone
In hopes you blossom
Be it in another’s earth
To have held you close
A memory for lifetimes to come
Fill up every void
Defining love and loss
Birth and death
Blurring lines in its disobedience
Lawless in action
Wanton spirit to explain
How we did hold the sun and moon
When our embrace created breath
I still inhale you
Envious the rose became
Interchangeable
All the same
Buried you in the air I breathe
This is how I’ve set you apart
Forever
That Moment
That moment
Right before
Where anticipation
Brings warmth
That is where
I want you
Forever
Remnants
I can smile
And know
That yes there was a moment
When our hands binded as one
And the fragrance of breeze
Made fantasy actual
There wasn’t any need
For sustenance as food
As we existed from loves nectar
It was there
I vowed protector
And as it were
Through the years
Emptied from such duty
Only did a shell remain
And what was love
Withered in dust
It is said
It’s better to have loved
Than to never have loved before
I evoke curses upon
The barer of such a scourge
That with its departure
Left remnants of a heart
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When I Die
I want the clouds to cry for days on end
Where visions of Noah come to mind
And Paul laments my sufferings on Earth
I want Solomon to await conversations on it all
Pausing as Ables blood whispers in my ear
As the watchers guide me towards Cain
So that he can explain death in all its gore
Maybe Adam will change up his animal garments
The ones Eve sewed for him so lovingly
I want to bring forth tablets to inscribe
Along with Moses
Gaze at the golden calf being worshipped
While Jesus ascends
And Lucifer tugs at his robe
I’ll take pictures alongside them all
And pray they make it on social media
As proof that Muhammad is indeed familia
As they meditate with Siddhartha
And dance with Shango
Pay tolls to Eleggua
For safe passage
Where I cast Opuele with Orunmilla
Yes let the heavens cry to disguise the elation
Of true elevation
When I die
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God
I stood filthy yet clean
Thinking water could erase
Rags shining like suits
Oh how I skillfully clothed my sin
Disgust painted over with a smile
I played the game in haste
Pride burying self
Leaving remnants of what has been
I now seek that which is true
With vigor and zeal
Guilty as I am before you
On my knees I do plead
As I give up this world
And all its appeal
I surrender all to you
Trusting forevermore in your lead
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The Errors of my Way
Not going to speak of motivation
Or being in tuned with spirit
Won’t assert my own personal beliefs
Because I may feel owner of truth
Will not cleverly decipher my childhood
And adult years
And spew it on some rhetorical rant
Of now knowing better
That I’ve somehow figured it out
Or that divinely inspired
I’ve spoken out words of awakening
No I dare not partake
Of such false imagery
Only to capture the attention of you
I’d rather digest my failures
Into essays
Formulated from my tears
Spouting into capsules of reality
That yes I have wronged a multitude
Of past lovers and friends
Have used them as a means to an end
Where human and sub human exist
Lest not forget
Cursed as I am
I bleed from self inflicted penance
Yet you’ll never attest to this
Viciously astute I do hide well
Behind an erected stature
With no chip left on shoulder
I seek repentance
From thee
From myself
And What I’ve yet to do to you
From the errors of my way
Axel Garcia 