Poems from KelliNikki
Listen
Listen to me now
Dear one
Or listen to me
A thousand times
And repeat my words
Till they are drilled into every
Dark crevice
That...
Famine
Watch as the 13 year old
Pushes food around her plate
And God forbid a piece makes it
To her mouth
She wouldn’t be an advocate
For...
And to think
That after all this time
It would be you to fall into the light
While I slip unknowingly into the darkness
It would be your...
My emotions are not poetry
They cannot be compared to the deep ocean
Or a thunder storm
They are a fist bruised
From beating against an...
I ask calmly
Fear hidden behind serious lips
And dry cheeks
As I pretend I have swallowed
A thousand butterflies
Of joy;
That they carry...