Thinking of Your Words While I Wait for the #6
by barbara
I said magnesium attracted me to you
And I was frozen beneath the Bering Sea
God suddenly place my body beside you when the cancer came
You know death
My cancer father and your dead mother
Everything happens because it leads you to what your suppose to be
I accepted you were my miracle
That I prayed for you
Walking down the sidewalk for someone
To just look into my eyes
Only able to watch the stain glass leaves fall
Dreading to see all the realness
Cancer to come to me
Death upon my father
Phony anemia
My comfort in your words
Addictive calls
Addicted to familiar words
Familiar feelings
I stand on 15th street waiting for the #6
Thinking of your words
Over and over again
You were my realness
This realness never came to be
I don't want to see all the realness
Three black men sitting on the bench
Bragging about fucking up someone
A buck will keep the old one high on imitation happiness
A dollar will raise him high above me