I didn’t just love your gorgeous looks for keeps
It was the way the sun rays outlined your cheeks
It was the small crooks in your perfect smiles
The bright undertones of color in your eyes
It was the shape of your mouth when open
The way you say my name and say it often
It was the way shadows bend to your frame
A figure that definitely attracts instant fame
But it’s in the silent spaces you don’t want seen
Where I found the real you that they can never see
These beautiful things that are big and small too
I let them out because it’s you they all add up to
Maybe then you’ll love yourself like I love you
KJ ✍🏾 🇰🇪
Tag: Memories
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I wish I could go back:
Tell my younger self to be careful,
Tell him how to live his life,
So he can avoid all of these troubles.
But I know he’d just laugh,
With that confident, all-knowing grin,
And tell me that I’m the one
Who should be taking advice.
He would be right.KJ
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They say forgive and forget
Well it’s true that I did forgive
But it would be a fat white lie
If I said that I will forget
See a part of me died that night
And I was the only present at my funeral
Even though I was Loved back to life
I’m still left with the memories of dying
And every time I look in the mirror
I know that I’ll never be that me again
But I still see every single one of them
The ghosts of my past selves
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I only write to feel your presence
Because right now life has lost its essence
What’s a beautiful rose without thorns to protect it?
What’s a puzzle without the pieces to complete it?
What’s a soldier without a country to die for?
It’s through my words that you come to life
It’s through my poetry I embrace what I have long been deprived
The Way 🇰🇪 