This is Ayana Edwards...summer 2013 issue poet...an excerpt. ENJOY

 

 

THE UNFAIRNESS OF LOVE

 

 

They tangled.

Lovers legs and brown eyes still

in the very early morning.

When everything they had lied about

to get to this point,

hanged,

in the warm summer heat.

The fan that had been rotating all night

to cool their skin,

wasn’t enough.

Every sweaty lie that had been told between their skins

came and rattled them from their sleep.

One by one,

waking them from their dreams.

His long dreads swung with his moods.

Her full hips absorbed

his indecisiveness.

Their friendship made trivial

by the tears he kept walled up behind his eyes,

and the few that blessed her cheeks,

barely moist.

 

 

READ THE READ THE REST OF THIS POEM AND ANOTHER WORK BY AYANA IN THE SUMMER 2013 ISSUE...COMING SOON.