Between Me and You...Whoever That May Be

Between Me and You...Whoever That May Be

By: Leah Norwood 

Email: leahxnorwood@gmail.com

Instagram: @__notleah__  

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The things that I'll say when the drapes are snatched away 

The facial expression paintings of disbelief, bewilderment, disgust, and shock will disarm you 

A cold stare and dry joke 

a punch to your throat 

Oh Leah 

A plain canvas to the eyes of onlookers 

a distressed red streak on a black-white painted slip gown 

to those looking from above

Oh Leah 

How could one hide their truth so desperately... 

There is a toll for this attraction 

id like to say if I had the courage to say it……..                     Sober!

You gotta be as tough as nails on chalkboard walls as I am 

and even softer than black boys melanated cheeks with dried tears than I am 

Oh hell but for what? 

I'll tell ya, 

for the sake of being a mystery, it's all fun and games till you lose yourself within the crevices of your own disguise or armory 

I’m a jack of all trades and sometimes courageous and sometimes afraid, cliche and 

dry as cotton-mouthed kissed lips. 

But there's a side you won't see till I want you to see 

I'll hide it in the lyrics of someone else's song or in the bite of my inner cheek and 

hand resting my face by the grace of my knees 

I don’t know where I’m going with this or who I’m trying to be but there is more than meets the eyes of you and me.