I can’t help it

Sometimes I drift away

From the words the gently blow

Out from his beautiful pink lips.

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I go into another world

Somewhere beautiful

Where the sun blesses my complexion

And where plants are as healthy and alive

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Just as the creatures cohabiting this shared land

I imagine myself laying in the sand, bare.

Visualizing myself slightly dampened by the waves

Not a care in this world.

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My hair as wild as a ferocious alpha male’s mane

King of the jungle

No longer care if my face is naked embracing

All the flaws that personify my story.

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I can’t help it

Sometimes I drift away

From the words that gently blow

Out from his beautiful pink lips.


© Aliyiah Jasmine