Poem: Sounds Like Weeping

Loving you sounds like weeping And keeping Up with the melody you sing Is causing me to lose the time What once was yours and had become mine Is now hitting on the two And every thought I have of you Is muffled by memories of what you used to do And I can’t hear…

Poem: This

This quiet This peace This hope This dream This now This then This moment This when This day This prayer This here This there This smile This wish This everything This THIS. A Mishunda Mathis Original (c) 2018

Poem: Midnight Hour

His heart is an aching memory A will never be That barely was But still is He is mine And I am his Even if he does not exist Or choose to live In this space and time I will make rhyme to his being Seeing No other way to bring him into my reality…

Poem: “Hurt”

He went to look for her where he left her And was surprised to find her gone To think a woman of such depth and beauty Would not up and move on If left unattended… How offensive! The light of love became too dim, And while she only wanted to receive light from him She…

Heart Condition: Letters to Love

An absolute labor of love and loss, “Heart Condition” is a small but personal and powerful book of poetry that has been a lifetime in the making. 2017 was a hard year for me and I used that pain to fuel the fire to get the book out. Once it finally arrived in my hands,…