You injure me In my own home After I lovingly Prepare a meal And experience For you And then Instead of apologizing You go on the attack Telling me that I am So sensitive That I am cursed That I have Bad luck bad karma Projections of your Belief systems Adding insult to injury Compounding [...]
I am losing my shit My air-tight memory And perception Unraveling in your presence The sirens Singing to me Luring me into Self-destruction Through the promise of Connection ©2017 by Loolwa Khazzoom. All rights reserved. No portion of this article may be copied without author’s permission.
Trust is a tricky thing Even those most trustworthy Can fail to come through When the need is subtle Or dire You find out What people are made of When you cross over The proscribed formulas For human engagement And have needs That require A level of sensitivity That is not taught That typically Is [...]
I trust you In general But don’t trust you In this instance People are different In different situations Acting out Aspects of themselves That may be Contradictory I don’t know you Well enough yet To know How consistent Or reliable you are Across the board And I have been betrayed before So I’m not even [...]
You awaken in me Erotic energy That stems from the soul I invite it To flow through me Permeate me From the inside Spreading warming filling This is what I have been waiting for This is What I have been Waiting for No physical act Could reach this level At this time I crave I [...]
Paralyzed By the loss so far Accumulating further loss Through inaction There wasn’t enough time to do it right Or I was busy trying to let go And live in the here and now And now I’m anxious I may have forgotten details Truth lies in the details So I might get the facts wrong [...]
You say it is the will of Gd Perhaps it’s just your unwillingness To imagine the possibilities Step out of bounds Do whatever it takes Perhaps you are not in fact powerless But rather lazy Self-indulgent Relying on the systems rules constructs That small-minded people created To ensure the even flow of mediocrity Maybe you [...]
The Fixer I used to lean into the vacuum Compensate for the void with my presence I guess it was too painful to feel the absence Now I know that I need someone Who fills up that space himself And meets me at the edges I will not be the fixer I will not be [...]
You preach detachment How is that different from Dissociation Pretending that what’s happening Isn’t Collapsing internally From a sense of powerlessness Rather than accessing And acting on Power Of Truth Light Soul Remedying the situation Effecting change Your dogma Masquerades as Universal Truth Making it all the more insidious And yet And yet Having spoken [...]
