May 5, 2023

Partially

my words are set free
to roam across grassy hills
only here do they not have
to hide how they feel

i am told often
how dangerous are my ways
how hard are all
the things i need to say

i upset them
so i let all of me fade
perhaps i am the reason
for anxiety in my day

i am partially myself
so much is performance to seem okay
how do i know who i am anymore?
most of me is tucked away

without the anxious rambling
and moving around nervously,
would you even like the me that is calm?
would i bore you if i turned out
to just need to cry for awhile 
because i've been gone from
myself for so long?

i can't explain how far within
i have folded to just belong
so that i do not do wrong
and so i can just hold on

it would take an expedition
in the most hazardous of conditions
to excavate any original editions
of my naked thought's renditions

i pity my desperate voice
and its hopeless plight
it's all bark and no bite
because alone, i have no fight

alone
alone
alone
i have no fight.

-Les'Nspired

April 27, 2023

When You Say My Name


When you say my name

it is the prayer answered

after years of heartache;

it is reverence and humility

I am queen in vulnerability

I am ruler for your sake

March 13, 2023

piano man

He played his heart upon the piano 
and my own felt something i hadn’t known  
struck every note in the right key
then he sang and looked at me…