Candlewick in shadow

I cannot resist a poetry fiesta.

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Candlewick

Have you ever felt snuffed out

Like a candlewick in shadow

As the bright light of the wick

disappears in willowy wisps of smoke.

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Ever felt your words pinched like snuff

Melting away in slow motion

Like the promised years of three scores and ten

assured by the words of that "Good Book".

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If you remember nothing else

Remember that once I was happy here

in this ill begotten house

Where words once meant one thing

But now means another

Where, with breathless allure

Promises were whipped into a frenzy

Seeking out the gullible and transparent

Blinding us with a smokescreen.

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Have you ever stood naked in front of your class

All of your everything bared and exposed

Yet no one notices as you fritter away

upon the winds of time and change.

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I once was fat with word filled dreams

My altar tricked and beguiled into believing

while I sat in foolish awe of smoke filled promises.

Was I never loved and adored, was It just

a dream I dreamed,

while wishing for acceptance

and a feeling of belonging.

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Yet, now I am fully awake

I see it all for what it actually is

Those...you and you...like me

Are we all liars searching for

innocent new victims for

Gods and goddesses who use us

To further their ambitions...

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I now declare that,

I am not a shopworn tired thing

I am EVERYTHING

Existing here, within the REAL

Know me for nothing but me

This Black woman

So done taking your $%^T!!!!

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No longer a candlewick...but a CANDLE

Burning bright!!!

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