Time Tables

Time tables make minds stable

Or break them wide open

Break down the way forward

Elevate the truths inside

Deconstruct the journey

Fight against the memories

Seduce the joy, invite the wonder

Beckon the strength

Block the midnight call to arms as

Day slips in to halt the breakdown

That darkness bred the night before

Don't be drawn into the race

As sand pours through the hourglass

As the deadline approaches

Keep your mind from breaking

While you cast your gaze to the horizon

Dawn smooths out the wrinkles of time

And we wake before the breakdown

And, we break the day wide open!

-Kyra Faith

11/11/20

 Life Blood

Pour the colors of your heart onto the canvas

The stark white reflects a thirst for pigment

Expression causes the blank space to vanish

A gift to be treasured by the voyeur’s vision

Let the words within, drip as poetry from your lips

Carved out from memories over the passage of time

Wellspring of emotions rushing into script

Interpretation as fluent as the gestures of a mime

Put pencil, charcoal or ink to paper reflecting the images inside

Sketching utensils rush from inkwell to linen

To transcribe those etchings littering the halls of the mind

No boundary, no box of rules on how to begin

Stream the consciousness of your soul into song

The notes are burning embers of pain and desire

The structure is a collision of moments that belong

To the string of vacancy spilling chorus into the fire

Strike the chords composed by your imagination

The audience will memorize the rhythm

Sparked by their desire for reconciliation

Music is the universal healing serum

Kyra Faith

3/31/2017 @ 3:00pm

Unplug the Circuit

My heart, like a flashing neon sign
From birth, calling to those, far and wide
They take their places in line
To freely take what is mine.

Line up, line up, I proclaim!
Whether out of pain or learned behavior
I forsake myself to the brink of shame
Forgetting that only I can be my savior.

Unplug the circuit, dim the lights
Darkness to guide the way
Shadows fuel the fire inside
Teaching the heart  to stow away.

Be a student,  with silence as the teacher
Allow it to do all the talking
An avid motivational speaker
For those with the patience to listen.

Allow the peace to flow in and around
All that my heart is anxiously awaiting
Harness the reticence that flows down
Funnel it into my potential for greatness

By Kyra Faith Jackman
5/15/2014

Invisibility

Oh, invisible me
Could I slip through the cracks
Even disappear into the atmosphere

Or could I slip inside
Your beautiful mind
And reside there

But, for the fear of not being accepted
Or the scalding truth of being rejected

No map to lead the way
For your voice reverberates
The music my heart wants to play
If only I could scale these prison gates

If only I could tear down the walls
And escape from inside
These sterile, vacant halls
I could be visible and alive

By Kyra Faith Jackman
4/15/2014 @ 2:20pm