Author: Melissa

I found your heart in a dark dusty jarYou had to protect it so long, I’m sorryYou’re shaking again, you aren’t you without itLet me help you put it back inFix it in place one little act at a timeGo slow, breathe deepThere’s no opiate for this reunionHave the tea, […]

Quick-mix easyCulled cod carcass crystallizedSolo flame sailing in zero Kelvin darkStatements null and voidEmpty calorie crickets and clichesBridges charred and chuckedBlistering stone embedded in the soleCurrent in a broken circuitLess than littleSame as the ones beforeUntoppled by gale forceHow could they? Again?No thank youThis is not for me-Melissa Donley

Dear Self,Dammmn gurl.You been through some shIT!How you do that?Come out all sparklin’, glitterin’ divine,the star of your own solar system?Which gods got your back?What you give for their strength?How you take enough pain for tenthen got sun beams in your eyes, your smile?You given’ love you never received,where you […]

Persona off,it was years beforeI heard your real voice,soothing and preferred.I saw you before the slip.You are not invisible.At what age did you learnto slap on an Insta-Grin?Do you remember the city?Who was in the room?Which pieces were youconditioned to conceal?What was the first heartbreakyou smiled through?How many since then?Can […]

I slip up sometimesI forget my nervous system is healing right nowHow I shake with anxiety before the medicine kicks inAnd I have to calm myself throughout the dayHow the end of my marriage was quicker and cleaner than thisWith ongoing communication and teamworkI slip up sometimesI forget I promised […]

“I’m spunky.I like my oatmeal lumpy.”My curves are kickin’, andI’m gonna rock this motherclucker.-Melissa Donley*includes lines from ‘The Humpty Dance’ by Digital Underground (Shock G aka Humpty Hump).

Simmering rice, each graina swelling promise kept,and steamed windows,veil of vapors betweenour exclusive biomeand the rest of Everything.I’ll wash the beans, darlin’,while the onion crispswith the bell pepper,chambered like a heart.We’ll plant the seeds together.They say the secret is in the saute,but I know it’s in the wayyou honor the […]

Actuallysince you mention itsee, youhave to understandonly members are allowed to un-leashexactingspite and spurn, special privilegesAs members are just that way, egos woundedcorrect always, you seereally, you are just tooopenlysensitive, too humanspeaking up for yourself and not excusingtheGlorified newsprint dollsleading by example, yourself, aloneothers stay seatedbut they whisper the same […]

Cut me from the gristle of this world.Boil me up in a tall hot pot.I want to feel the drudge leach from bone and sinew.Steam every injustice from my pores.Cook me down to my concentrated essence.Steep me in a bold flowering tea.I want to drink in all that is me.-Melissas […]