Love...and other drugs

Half woman half lioness

[unorthodoxlove]

To the lover in Brooklyn…

I want to have moments with you where we are standing barefoot in the dark in the living room of my wooden floored New York apartment,

Frank Sinatra playing in the background and your arms wrapped around my waist, and my hands on your chest.

We’re face to face and your taking your time kissing every part of my face reminding me how beautiful we both are inside and out, outside and in.

 I want to get drunk off of the wine of your lips and be left with slurred speech and stumbling steps. I want to know what being left on cloud 9 truly feels like.

You’ll slowly move me towards the wall and I’ll lose all sense of coordination that you will have to grasp my hands and place them above of my head.

You’ll let go of my hands and grab my face, bite my lip and stare at me as if i was the only thing you were really good at loving. #OldWritings #poetry

[unorthodoxlove]

Goddesses

[thelovejournals]

Pour yourself into me and I will not let a drop of you hit the ground.

Rudy Francisco (via thelovejournals)

[help-n-quotes]

It’s okay if you’re burning with anger or sadness or both it is necessary for you to collapse so you can learn how phoenixes are reborn when they burn and rise again from the ashes of their existence

Noor Unnahar (via help-n-quotes)

[unorthodoxlove]

Why it hurt so much to lose you? Because I worshipped you as a King so much I replaced you with my own God. Now, imagine losing God...

Love Mendez

[unorthodoxlove]

[buzzfeed]

All Of Puerto Rico Has Lost Power As Hurricane Maria Kills 9 People In The Caribbean

The potentially catastrophic storm is barreling into a region recently hit by Hurricane Irma.

What We Know So Far

At least nine people’s deaths have been attributed to Hurricane Maria in the Caribbean islands.

All of Puerto Rico has lost power according to the island’s Office of Emergency Management.

The storm made landfall in Puerto Rico on Wednesday morning and is located 35 miles southeast of San Juan with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph. Wind gusts are expected to be much higher.

Maria on Tuesday became one of the most intense hurricanes by central pressure ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.

“We have not experienced an event of this magnitude in our modern history,” Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said.

Parts of the Caribbean, including the British Virgin Islands, are still reeling from the deadly and destructive force of Hurricane Irma.

Here’s our earlier reporting on the lead-up to Maria.

[unorthodoxlove]

Goddesses

[blkproverbs]

If they don't play "Before I Let Go" before the party is over, did you really go to a black function?

you did not kind friend.

You. Did. Not. 

[spanky606]

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[writingsforwinter]

graveyard girl

if i could say anything to my future daughter,

it would be this:

you’ll be the girl that walks through the graveyard

just to feel the bodies moving underneath you,

& you’ll want to touch a man like that.

so you take ghosts home and let them into your bed

after checking under it

for monsters.

i would tell her, nothing’s gonna mend your broken heart.

you’ve got to get the tape and the twine

& stitch it back together. it’s too bad

i never taught you how to sew.

no amount of sugar for breakfast in your coffee

will wash away the bitter taste in your mouth.

everyone’s got a hungry soul; the only difference

is that some are hungrier than others.

you’ll be the girl who’s a shipwrecked fool

and falls hard for the bad ones.

they’ll leave you tied to the bed, and in return

you’ll give them a few hickeys and a slender wrist

with the palm cupped full of shadow.

be the one that always knows how to love,

but never figured out how to leave.

[unorthodoxlove]

Love back at it with magic and melanin

[unorthodoxlove]

Love back at it with magic and melanin

[unorthodoxlove]

Love back at it with magic and melanin

[unorthodoxlove]

Her name is Love…

[unorthodoxlove]

Dreams and Nightmares

My father dreamt of your infidelity

Long before I felt you cheat me out of this relationship

So when I finally found you out

It felt like a bomb with the words

“you should have known better” engraved on it

Sink into the pit of my stomach

And cause a world war of my heart

That only left me at battle with myself

You, carelessly and selfishly

Dropped your “little boy” lies on me

One right after the other

Left me more shattered and abandoned than

Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined

All so your pride and your power

Can stay intact

Like a true American

I hadn’t slept or ate for days after that

And when my father finally noticed

My tired eyes, weight loss and silence

He stood just as silent

As if he recognized the look I gave

As if he at some point caused it

And gave my mother the same pain

I was always determined to find a man like my father

So when I found you

I melted into the familiarity of your arms

Drenched in comfort and safety

Your voice was music to my ears

That I could have replayed non stop

Your shoulders were broad and easy to lean on

Your hands were strong enough to hold me

When no one else can reach me

The same way you reached for me in my first dream

I was hesitant but willing

To let you pull me in

At that time

I didn’t hear bombs or feel aftershock

I ignored red flags and alert signals

I didn’t know I was losing before I started

I didn’t know my life was no longer a priority to you

I didn’t know I was in this alone

But maybe I should have known better

[unorthodoxlove]

Her name is Love…