What It Means To Believe/ With a Full Mouth
What It Means To Believe/ With a Full Mouth
by Camonghne Felix
People have told me/
that my brain is a bronzed/
drinking gourd/
with so much whistle/
so much promise/
Today I caught my own/
filament/
in a subway window and
thought/ ‘this is the
face of someone who
will win’/ and kept
staring.
I travel home/ after this
the night/ coasting on
my back/ my mother says
“you really believe/ that
this is how you will change
the world?â€/ the snarl
in her voice/ shoving my
boisterous/ness to the walls/
I shrugged the half/ atlas of/
my body towards the/ door
steady silencing/ the corrosion
and I just/ stood there and/
made myself really/ feel
it/ made my entire/ frame
conduct the/ costly exit of
a missile/
Note from author: If you were to rearrange these stanzas in any
conceivable combination the story would never change.
Will to intuitive self-love=self-activism=self-power! Loved to positive outlook here with so many good lines. I liked this stanza: “Today I caught my own/filament/in a subway window and thought/ ‘this is the face of someone who will win’/ and kept staring.” Poignant disclaimer at end! thx for sharing!
whoops. i meant ‘Loved THE positive outlook here with so many good lines. just woke up. sorry. lol.