“Suburbs” Written by Khalilah Yasmin http://KhalilahYasmin.com © Today’s another holiday; everyone around me cheery and excited, I face my fate with apprehension not thankful to be invited. For this is my twenty fourth Christmas, and nothing has changed; He knows my birthday yet my own father mispronounces my name. Surrounded by a room of strangers […]

“With Angels; An Ode to Michael Joseph Jackson” Written By Khalilah-Yasmin © I may have never held your hand, or felt your embrace, But you touched my soul, my mind and every empty space. I may have never heard you say or call out my name, But you spoke to me often, regardless of your […]

“Veronica” © Khalilah Yasmin I don’t want to but, she says that I must, if I come near you, my windows she promised to bust. Her words; I trust, knowing she is sincere, I kiss you like an addict as you lay here. And I am in need I fiend for my fix, as she […]

“Conscious” ©Khalilah Yasmin I’m a slave to my subconscious thought; of which I have no control- I traded a broken heart temporarily for a piece of my soul. I’m a master of my mind; or is this too an illusion- as my heart eludes my mind, enticed with confusion.. Chaos and Illusions; as reality seems […]

“Complicated Ave” ©Khalilah-Yasmin http://khalilahyasmin.com Staring at the path before me, undecided on which road to take, I’m staring down your affinity, but somehow you say that I’m late. I live on “INTRIGUING DRIVE”, the land of the free and outspoken, for I once lived in the slums, of the beautifully jaded, heart broken… I moved […]

“Afflictions” ©Khalilah-Yasmin When I was in love and unhappy, I made excuses for myself, as I made excuses for the reasons he put me on a shelf. He didn’t want to play with me until I shined in your eyes, He placed me away, and silenced my uncertainty with lies. But he kept me, He […]

“black girl lost” ©Khalilah Yasmin http://khalilahyasmin.com You look at me and assume I’m just a BLACK girl lost, Judging me inaccurately, and the battles I’ve fought. To you I’m a slave, you’re hoping I never break loose, you attempt to bind me, mentally on your kerosene noose. Well I’m not sitting on your scale to […]