HeyJaredThe Black Velvet Hour
I write poetry and small, intimate stories about memory, womanhood, and becoming 🖤 Midnight vignettes; part memoir, part moonlight, part truth. A soft place to land after dark🌙
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Find Your Special Place (opens the original)
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Bloodline Bruises (opens the original)
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I was born into bloodlines braided in shadow, sisters stitched beside me like we were meant to be kin by something more than nameBut I’ve spent my life trying to be loved by people who only ever handed me silence and shame.I walked on eggshells hoping for connection,but every step led me to broken glass.I offered olive branches, but they offered backhanded comments masked in laughs.They threw daggers with their words, but made sure no one saw the bleed.They wore smiles in public while privately
The Keepers of secrets (opens the original)
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Waiting for a Face (opens the original)
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There is a peculiar thing that happens when you fall in love. Not infatuation. Not fascination. Not the fleeting spark of attraction. I mean the kind of love that quietly rearranges the furniture of your soul. The kind that sneaks into ordinary moments and transforms them without asking permission.Before it happened to me, I rolled my eyes at all the usual sayings.“When you know, you know.”“Your person will come along when you least expect it.”“Love arrives when you’re not looking.”The world is
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