Issue 1 – Abena Noel

Think II

Cold night
alone in your bed
under the cover
you want to
have
sex
but you don’t
have a man
so you
masturbate.

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Me

I decided
one morning to stop
living my life
for others,
and live it for me.
To be what I
want to be,
not what they think I should be.
To think my own thoughts,
not what is being
fed to me.
I want to dream
my own dreams, tell people
and for once
I don’t want
them to tell me
what it means.
It seems that everybody
has plans for me
but I want to be free
to live my life
FOR ME.