Poetry

Words made
deliberate.

Sometimes an essay is too many words. These pieces sit quietly. Read them slowly, one line at a time.

• Philosophy · October 2026

  What We Bury Learns to Swim

  “I have buried things that still breathe beneath me. Names. Nights. Versions of myself I covered with years and called healed.”

• Faith · September 2026

  Call It Resurrection

  “There are graves where no body lies. Only a man, still breathing, beneath the weight of everything he refused to release.”

• Culture · August 2026

  We Are All Somebody's Foreigner

  “A white man once said, You cannot live here. Now I hear Black men shouting, Go home. Same sentence. Different throat.”

• Love · August 2026

  A Love Bought

  “She loved me best when my pockets spoke fluent thunder. I mistook that thunder for God.”

• Growth · August 2026

  What Growing Up Cost Us

  “We grew up thinking age was the distance between birthdays, then life started measuring it in funerals, unpaid bills, and mothers becoming memories.”

• Faith · July 2026

  Unfinished Manuscript

  “A poem about the pages we leave open, and the faith it takes to keep writing before the ending arrives.”

• Philosophy · May 2026

  Shame Speaks With Other People’s Voices

  “Most people confuse shame with guilt because both wounds bruise the soul in similar places. But they are not twins. Not even cousins.”

• Culture · May 2026

  The Things The Ancestors Said To Me

  “I told the ancestors I was exhausted. Not the kind of tired sleep can fix. The kind that settles behind the eyes.”

• Survival · May 2026

  Receipts

  “The painful thing about being a struggling father is learning that people only respect your love when it comes with money.”