100 milion

by Chanya Riddick

 

I am 100 million pieces

of sweet gum drops

coated in sugar

on

your taste buds.

but

I am 100 million drops

of deadly venom

seeping

 into your blood stream

changing you every second at a time

 

But without you

I am literally nothing

and there lay on the floor

a 100 million pieces of me

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Perception

by Chanya Riddick

 

 i'm digging to be dug

but what if theyre not dugging

what i'm digging

if i put a smile on my face

now they think i'm

fake

or just trying to fit in

An outsider looking

in

So langston hughes

i wont try to be

dugg

until' i'm to my grave

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a poets life

by chanya riddick

 

I take the keys

I unlock the chains

on my mine

Withe poetry

I unleash my words

on man kind

My pen across the paper

My hand on the keyboard

my thoughts on the screen

my feeelings are floored

if life is the words

and death is the end,

I'll take my pen

and write

 that how my days

will be spent

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Identity

by Chanya Riddick

 

Who are you?

To him you are weird

to her you are ugly

to them you are a

outsider

loner

hypocrite

and now you're thinking theirs no way out

But when it all comes down to it

it matters what you think

cause one day

when you're out living your life

they'll be on the wrong path

But if you do listen

you'll be exactly what they say you are.

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Facebook

by Chanya Riddick

 

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Uneducated by

Chanya Riddick

 

I never learrned,

what the word "care"

actually meant

 

I never learned,

that one day

That I would actually care

 

I never learned

I would actually care

to love someone

to touch their skin

hold their hand,

or to breathe their breath

 

I never learned...

till the day I met

you

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She wakes up everyday

trying to potray

the definition of perfect

The perfact she see's on

T.V.

Magazines

and what everyone else wants her to be

 

She tries her hardest

but she still gets teased,

from her short hair

down to the shoes

on her feet

 

So she developed a tough skin

Wouldn't let no one in

making sure everyone elses life is a blur

for all the wrong that has been done to her

 

And everymorning

she wakes

and looks in the mirror

asking

who am I?

Whose body could this be

but she already knows the answer-

this girl is me

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Maybe there's a point in time

where you just want to find

Something else better to do with your

life. You're tired of waiting

for that prince to save you from

that fire breathing dragon

Cause you know he won't, no

one will, and now you're

popping those pills. That's

how you deal with your stress

an essay or a test

They preach the words

change

and

hope

But's there's no other way to cope

and now your alone with no one

to confide in. You thought it

was to run and hide then.

And now you got that admissions

letter

now you know

there's something better

 

Leave me alone

but don't let go

of what we have

it was magic

but so tragic

no where  else to go

i wanted to  take it slow

but you took it fast

now our love has passed

i told you no

you thought i said yes

now i have  to leave you

it's for the best

you told me you werent having it

but i am, because i'm pregnant