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cjdexter · 4 years

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i’ve known a life where canvases have crashed into one another. where god broke himself from the eyes of humanity. where hummingbirds sipped nectar. and snakes. poison. i’ve known a life that is hard yet beautiful. fading. and constant. a life that is... bound. holy. and free. | duality ii

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cjdexter · 4 years

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pain II

pain.

you’ve become a friend. you’ve broken me into a hundred pieces and I’m finding a way to put myself back together again.

you’ve taken my stars away, the only place i call home.

you’ve shattered the ceiling of my mind & broken the rays of joy i held so close. you’ve found a way to live within me and i don’t know how to escape your hold. i’ve learned to love you. hate you. find you. and adore you. all at the same time.

to me you’re beautiful. yet deadly. you’ve taught me all I should know but the memories....my god the memories.

- c.j. dexter

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cjdexter · 4 years

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Book: A War Among the Stars by C.J. Dexter

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cjdexter · 4 years

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Source: A War Among the Stars, C.J. Dexter

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cjdexter · 6 years

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i’ve fought enough battles to realize the power of love and in all of my fighting, out of my many days of running away from her, i’ve learned that she will have her reign. because love is the crown of the universe and we all deserve to gather at her throne. pure. uncorrupted. blissful. peaceful love. Ase 🙏🏽 . . . #poetry##prose #poetsofinstagram #WhenStarsSing ##literature #blackliterature #bookstagrammer #poetsociety #poetsociety #poetrycommunity #astronomy #science #abstractpoetry #bookstagram #africanpoetry #blackpoetry #blackwriters #poem #CjDexter #spiritualawakening #spirituality #healing https://www.instagram.com/p/BolCJQ1HOY2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=134e3dlzurgoa

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cjdexter · 4 years

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Shattered Glass

shattered glass.

you pick up a piece

just enough to see your empty reflection.

what should love look like.

does she look like you

or has she found herself

crawling from the foundations of your chest

leaping into the black ocean of your tears.

she asks

mawu (queen) before I drown

why do these tears

these soft knives

fall from your eyes

him you say.

love hears the soft ache in your heart

sees truth in your brown eyes

and she weeps.

not for the heartbreak.

not for the longing.

not for the man who took everything.

but for the memory of who you were.

love takes your face in the palm

of her hands

my dear

the deadliest sin

is not lust envy nor greed

the deadliest sin

is forgetting who you are,

when you exchange your royalty

for only half of a man

or no man at all.

that is why i call you queen.

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cjdexter · 7 years

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she was the kind of fire that could not be touched. skin too thick to cut. lightning strikes at her hips. she is doused in ivy & overgrown lilies. she was the kind of fire that burned whole cities. she came across a man whose blood was thicker than water. inside him was a beast that couldn't be tamed, a harmonious being with the sound of ancient hums in his chest and moonlight inside his eyes. his fingertips could bend galaxies alone. and together they joined in the essence of love. the sun rose each morning to witness the beauty of their chaos. And each night, they warmed the ground of mother earth singing of their love for one another: forevermore forevermore forevermore. -c.j. dexter

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cjdexter · 7 years

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Under the midnight sky, she whispered these words to me… I didn’t become This beautiful overnight. I was broken, Beaten, Bruised by life’s unexpected Hate for me. There was a time I dwelled in darkness Simply because the pain Felt too good, But I could no longer take The endless nights of tears Raining upon my pillow case, Nor the loneliness that dwelled Within my heart. I could no longer take The emptiness That drained my soul Each day. And so, I became the other part of myself. The part I knew could emerge From the darkness With a bursting light. So, like I said, I didn’t become This beautiful overnight.

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