Poetry by Kiara Mosby
CHILD
I saw you
Why’d you let me ever see you
I saw how you looked at me
I saw your thoughts before you
When you thought I wasn’t paying attention to you
You saw me as yours
That wasn’t true
I really fucked up I shouldn’t have hidden from you
Excuse me if my excuses don’t excuse this
I couldn’t hurt you, and
that’s what hurt you
me not telling the truth
me never loving you
the way you wanted me to
Fuck me, for not telling you that you
Weren’t my enough
I stole your dream before you dreamt it up
Should’ve told you there was never going to be an us.
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- Kiara Mosby
Cause & Effect
‘’If you lost weight I would date u, ur actually very cute’’
Some shit spoken real slick
By a young bird chested jit
Words so manipulative
Made the routine stick
In that moment
The minds heart ripped
Glass windows broken with bricks
Dead squirrels poked with twigs
Just kids being kids
Until one is pushed to grow up too quick--
All the eyes all the ears
Stupid fucking whispering I can still hear
hid the tears from my peers
Behind the broken veneers
In fear--
That they’ll think of me less
if my face expressed
the actions of my heart
sinking beneath my breast
leaving my body cemented
into the muthafuckin desk,
where my bald up fist ready for war
decided to rest
wide eyed, I
was left speechless and dried lipped
that was the iceberg to my titanic
… type shit
the Jackson 5 where’s Michel
… type shit
the last snap to my streaks… bitch
… type shit
that was my weakness
And I was never known to be a weak bitch,
I became the designer
to re-stich each stich
With every seamless seam seemed meaningless
Guess I just didn’t fit--
Kids started reading me like the cover of a book
A misinterpreted skit
illustrated by that fuckin crook
Those words were my hallucinate swirl
I was just an innocent little fucking girl
Contemplating taking herself out of this fucked up world
Dreaming turned into day dreaming to be thin
Stamped the hot metal against my skin
I didn’t want to feel their words again
Melted plastic on the palms of my hands
Kneeling as the darkness sat on my shoulders
The numbness like boulders
knocked me OVER
and OVER
AND OVER
I was full of
Emotionless emotions emotionally motioning
The light in the room from corner to corner
I was
Like synchronized tides in a wave less ocean
In a sky with no moon
My mind could never be still
I was left battered n life was unreal
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- Kiara Mosby
TRAIL BLAZER
Imprints of his hands
Withered along my skin
fresh plucked Blueberry kush
Slowly bringing me to euphoria
With just the scent of him
​
- Kiara Mosby
