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Love is Alive She looks at herself in the mirror. Pulling her hair back into a neat ponytail, She doesn't understand what she sees, she turns away. Stockings, heels, coat, and scarf she is off to work. Walking briskly she ignores the flowers; eyes trained ahead. At work she types, she talks, and smiles In her work office bathroom, alone she looks into the mirror Re applying makeup. Still not understanding what she sees. On a train home, she watches her reflection in the window An unsmiling woman looks back at her Her chest tightens The distorted reflection makes her look away. A man boards He sits across from her.   She likes

Right now I'll just imagine you. Everything you are and everything we can do. Those shall remain a figment of my imagination. That perfect first kiss, the stimulating conversations your sensual non-sexual caresses, and gentle murmurs confessing your love for me, I'd rather play those over and over in my head as just my imagination. My mind's wanderings, its creation of my perfect counterpart. A man of mans, humble, handsome, arousing, thoughtful, dark, educated, honest, loving, and fearless. Just stay there in my mind, for I am for certain afraid I'll find it and ruin that too. I am not ready for you so I'll sit here and just imagine you in a

The Platonic Girl Delve into the depths of my consciousness A world not of its' own Accented by our frank culture, you are me more than I am myself in this consciousness Behold, a woman called Jalissa, The Girl Wonder. A chocolate complexion from Hughes Sepia Hills Dressed in a white garb adorned with gold pieces She stands tall and confident Poised with elegance and grace Her face framed by society's lustrous locks, deep  black, and flowing Plush lips, smiling and kissed by media's pomegranate red Behind large milk chocolate eyes, highlighted with honey, lies  her wisdom, far beyond her years. She is the

The Day Mankind Killed Mother Earth Forgive us Mother for we are still children, whining gluttonous infants Conquering soil that have no ownership, killing creatures for power Forgive us Mother for we are still children "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eatest for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely perish" And the day came when mankind ate of the fruit tree, we closed our eyes and became children Upon that day we believed men ruled Earth Our Mother Earth We set out to kill her, devoured the land, seeped poison into her soil wreaked havoc through war and crime polluted her wate