Poem: Dark and Light

Time has a night and day

In between, I have given all that I can

Especially offered my heart

Which has been eaten as though it was an apple

Masticated, swallowed and digested

Never let that heart fall into the hands

Of someone hungry for theft

But without care for that which they hoard

Love being taken for granted

Left out in the cold

Is the coldest darkest night

This original blog post was written and copyrighted by Juana M. Gumbs. All rights are reserved by her in January 2021 (C)

POEM: Black Hearts Depart

Longing

Alluring in its desired quality

Though insanity runs it

Claiming its purity

to devour, squeeze all wholesomeness

As though it was a tattered rag

When all semblance of hope is lost

Black heart emerges

Disturbing, pausing to give weight to

As it begins to corrupt all beauty

Rendering it naked

Then proceed to whiter

Emaciate

Break

Defeated

Disclaimer: This poem just came from within my depths. All photography and original art for this post was created or captured by Hetheru Mer Djehuty. Thank you so much for your support. Please feel free to like, comment, criticize, make suggestions or say “hi”.

This is an original poem dreamed up, written and copyrighted by Juana M. Gumbs. All rights are reserved by her.

VERSE: Pain, Flowers & Honey

06/18/2019 journal in prose of my day…to encourage myself and anyone else who has loved hard and have had their heart broken. There is hope that someone can love us just as hard for as long as we live. (Featured photo is of me when I was 11 months old.)

I’m beginning to feel that pain and love

Are the same emotions

Because to sometimes have one

Love

Is to sometimes have the other

Pain

Both hold hands and play but can be joined

By

Inspiration and epiphany

Anger

Extreme bliss

Hurt

Transparency and openness

Regret

Loss

HOPE

The only way to cope

When that person has powers to maim

The worst is that their intentions was not to aim

Yet still, they leave the subject of their love to blame

I have only truly had a broken heart 3 times

From that same individual of all my affections

Those 3 wounds

Have me displaced and ghosted my heart

Left in a state of wandering

Faced with the task to recover

My strength notwithstanding

I will survive the blows that have befallen me

Because there is someone out here in this desert

That can appreciate the flower that I offer

Deeming themselves worthy of my perpetual attentions

Honey intentions without a regret or resent

A Brief Narrative: Child of Misfortune

Be sure to ask for you what you want of gods, also understand in worship, you may just get what you want, but not how you want it. Ask for something good, sweet, kind and squeeze your eyes tight hoping that when you open them, a stranger shall appear. These child’s eyes has seen and sought so much gold, but only to realize that there is such a thing as rust and rotten in this world. William Wordsworth has written that “the child is the father of the man”, for which the child was first and has birthed the man’s concept of the world. Shaped those concepts into rights and wrongs and who to slaughter first? When still all the rights may be wrongs for another that is posed with the same dilemma.

The author decided to make a twist to the tale, that is infinite but reckless still, even with understanding. We choose our battles and are left with scars and win wars and lose some. What does it matter to the universe? What does it matter which fork we choose to eat with or which path to tangle our feet? Is it all for naught or is it for freedom we choose to live, or love or live without love? So many disputes about everything, no answers linger but belief is strong and demanding and will overcome. You cannot stop true love in its tracks instantly or demand it to come naturally either. One choice is already outweighed by the other.