Nicole Campbell
A Collection
A collection of 3 poems in the style of Elizabeth Acevedo's "The Poet X". Check out Nicole's distinct interpretation of Acevedo's atypical conventions.
Forbidden
No one around me to numb all my pain
You hate me and damage me.
I’ve been spacey but you chase me.
You sit and watch as my world is gone
Now I gotta deal with this. heart. throbbing. pain. again.
the type of pain that
never
goes
away.
Heaven
As I watch my own mother
burn my faith and envision
my own hell.
I look like satan
the flames are me. the flames are free. the flames I want to be.
I tried finding God.
but if God means going through this.
forget it.
Don’t deserve a daughter
I have a father
I have a father who doesn't give a shit about me
I have a father who stopped loving me when i grew breasts
I have a father who drinks too much and loves too little
I have a father who if you saw
you wouldn't think for a split second we were father
and
daughter.
Because fathers are supposed to l o v e
their daughters
right...