"Purple Heart, Red Dream, Black Water" - Poetry, by Jamaar Watson

Soul divided, heart ignited,

I Dream

Shallow Sea, I can’t swim

I Dream

Eyes gone blank

I Dream

A dream is only to the heart, what the mind is to the soul

I Dream

Black Ocean showed no devotion; she opened up her mouth and screamed land of opportunity

Take the leap into the ocean only to be chewed up, and spat back out

So I drifted, drifted so far I was left stranded

Stranded with a….

Dream

A red dream showed me the struggle that lingered

From the womb to the tomb is a question,

So we waste away because you are a part of me, and I am part of you, and as we listen to the pins drop

Music plays

So I Dream

A living heart, red to purple

Breathless, Chestless, Eyeless

Questions

I cannot see, so I gasp for air

Air through my eyes

Sight through my nose

I am lost; I cannot see, out of breath, cries from the Purple Heart in my own chest

Slowly beating

I Dream

A red dream showed me only black water, a blood filled hand and a purple heart

Dreams so why bother

I Dream

Dream another day because I am dying and in death my mind cries

My heart cannot cry because I lost it,

Lost it to black waters and red dreams

I said lost it

To dreams…