POETRY
POETRY
letβs get into our feels.
Herein lies a collection of some of my work. Sad and/or moving musings on love, pain, trauma, beauty, family, life, etc.
Take a look around. Leave a comment if you feel so inclined.
All words Β©Christopher Sofolo
cedendo vinces
I stood over the sink
Scrubbing our negroni glasses
Wishing the ginger-scented soap
Would wash away the cancer
Because the chemo didnβt workβ¦
CRESTFALLEN
Death called your name, you said
Not from the periphery
But right here
Right now
And it requires bloodshedβ¦
Hedonism Prism
We met in kindergarten
Miss Wolfeβs class
Into an ear I whisper
A shy boyβs bargainβ¦
i keep waking up with blood under my fingernails
After years pass
there are
fragments
of memory
that scab upβ¦
I Care About My Body
A man I once loved told me he wished I
βcared more about my bodyβ
But I do careβ¦