Tuesday, April 27, 2010

A Short Short

Lover’s Secrets

You didn’t know I recorded us the last time. But sometimes I need something to get me through the days ‘til you come home. I used to just call your phone and listen to your voice mail, put on your shirt and be surrounded by your scent, or stare at your picture ‘til I felt your lips on mine. That was all child’s play. I tried all of that at the same time and that got me through a couple days. It’s been two days now and I’ve gone stark raving mad. We see each other once a month, but it’s the in between time that has me climbing walls. I dealt with it well for the first few months. Month number four was hard, five was unbearable. That led me to where we are now, month six.

You’ve only been gone a couple of days and I’m feeling that old familiar itch. The battery operated substitute can do nothing for me that compares to you. We had our nightly chat and vocally tucked each other in. I wonder if you toss and turn as much as I do these days. I know I always sleep better when there’s someone sharing my bed. As my thoughts float to you, my smile broadens widely. You always know how to make me smile. This time, I’ve captured yours on video. I know that this isn’t a scripted act, because I didn’t tell you the cameras were rolling. There was one in the headboard and one across from us in the entertainment system. I spliced the recordings for side by side play with surround sound for my viewing pleasure. I thought about sending you a copy, but there’s something about it being my personal secret that excites me even more.

I was knocked out when you came in that night. The cameras were motion activated. They were extra sensitive and your shadow triggered my extra set of eyes. You stood at the door for a few moments juts looking at me sleep. I wonder, even now, what invisible thoughts ran through your mind’s eye that caused you to smile so widely that it stretches my heart. One day, if I share this with you, I hope you’ll remember and let me in on the secret joke. Finally, as if someone reminded you that our time was limited you move stealthily to the end of the bed, laying down your travel bag. Your broad shoulders extremely visible as you shrug off your over coat and place it carefully over the footboard. Your cream colored button up follows in swift pursuit of its designated place. Now your gym toned upper body is revealed through your undershirt and it sends ripples through my body from head to toe. I pause the video momentarily so that I can admire every inch of you, those that are hidden and unseen. I can feel the emotions that you share with me, even in my slumber, when I look at the love in your eyes. I know the ending of this movie, so I take a few more seconds to soak it all in before pressing forward in reviewing our night of passion. You lick your lips in what I interpret as anticipation while you clumsily unbuckle your belt. The slight clang of metal makes me stir as you watch tentatively, ready to duck if I fully arouse, I’m guessing. Frozen in place, you wait for my breathing to settle into the slow rhythmic pattern before slipping out of trousers and folding them too over the footboard.

The heat in your eyes sets fire to me even now and it must have raised the room temperature then too, because I kick off the covers on file as you made your approach. Now your presence is too pressing for me to sleep through; a smile creeps onto my lips knowingly. It spreads beyond the screen and into the present as I inhale deeply, remembering your subtle scent that filled the room and tipped the balance between dreams and reality. I can see that I held my breath in yearning for your first touch, wondering which part of my body would be blessed by your caress first, leaving the rest tense with jealousy and impatiently waiting to be awakened properly. You stare down at me intently, choosing the first point of contact carefully while examining my entire body. A smirk emerges on your face as you zero in on my back. Your eyes dart up and down the length of my spine as you bend to kiss…my shoulder blade. I can’t hold the giggle that escapes my lips now any more than I could the moan that fills the speakers from that night. I remember feeling your lips curve into the knowing smile against my back that is now hidden from the camera’s eye. On screen, I shift slightly before you steady me, preventing the turn. My confused look eases as I see you whispering into my ear, “Relax and enjoy. I want to please you in every way imaginable. Expend no energy unless it involves climaxing.” A slow blush, that I’m just now aware of, creeps over my face as I comply with your directions.

For the next hour, I am teased, tickled, and pleased by your large strong hands coated with fragrant oils. My body glistens in the muted light, seeming to radiate the way I feel inside with a visible aura. Knowing me inside and out, you sigh and reluctantly say, “Alright baby. Just once so you can fully let go.” I release on audible breath and get into position immediately. We make our way to the edge of the bed near the footboard. You are still standing, almost flush with the mattress. I swing my body around quickly before you can change your mind. My feet dangle on either side of you from the raised bed. It’s like you’re an obelisk erected between my legs. You hold up a finger to still me in your presence. This is my first time seeing you that night and I remember thinking I wanted to devour every inch of you. You tell me, “one time only, then back to you. Don’t push your luck,” as if you read my mind. I nod in agreement. It’s not long before my hands and mouth are all over you. I hover for a few extended moments just below your waist and lick my lips in anticipation before indulging myself entirely. I am totally lost in the moment and had no idea that twenty minutes had elapsed before your hips started matching the rhythm I created. Even now I get caught up in viewing our activities from that night. As soon as I take you over the edge you step back abruptly. You give me a few moments to pout as you recover and then pounce on me again playfully. I watch the rest of the video in its entirety, pleasing myself into climax with my televised twin. This is the only way I can satiate my need for you tonight and I’m afraid it may be addictive. “My own private flick was definitely the way to go,” I agree with myself as my hand drives the rest of my body into an amazing world of bliss and stimulation.

Suddenly, your ringtone interrupts my highest plateau and I answer huskily just before it flips to voicemail. After I’ve said hello, you respond with three words, “Come for me." I pause, wondering how you knew and you repeat yourself with further instruction, “Come for me. I need to hear it. It needs to be real.” I mute the sound on our video, but I don’t pause it. Hearing your voice in my ear and seeing your body moving over mine on screen propel me over the edge even faster than before.

I lay spent and recovering, listening to your breathing evening out a bit and a smile emerges. I hear you say, “Happy six months baby. Do you remember what I told you when we decided what we felt was real?” My silence answers you. “I told you that four double dees, two kitties, two hearts and souls as one, and a willingness to experiment would work wonders. Have I proven myself right princess?”

“Yes my queen. You have shown me to the luvleeh highway of unity.”

“That’s what I like to hear my Gem. I’ll see you soon…And I want a copy of our activities too; it’s only fair.”

My giggle relayed my compliance and we both smiled inside and out. My lover is beautiful and she claims our future when she coos, “Good night baby mama; sweet luvleeh dreams tonight.” And as if it were perfectly staged, the cameras flickered off over two sets of double dees breathing, exhausted in united slumber.


Copyright © 2010 Natasha Guy

Monday, April 26, 2010

Something Fun

Krispy Kreme Krime

As I heard the key in the door I noticed
You came home an hour late tonight,
Carrying your briefcase in front of you,
Hiding your crotch from my sight.

“Whatcha got there Joe,”
 I inquired.
“Nothing honey bear,
Just drained and ready to retire.”

I said as I reached for his hand,
“Well, let me take your briefcase there,”
What it is that I saw,
Well THAT made me stare!

“Really Joe?
Did you think I wouldn’t see that?
 Go ahead and leave;
Don’t forget your hat!”

He tried to stutter and lie to me.
 “But baby I swear it’s not what you think,”
I gave him a glare
That made his balls shrink.

“I figured you were out working hard
Since you come home to me an hour late.
Hell, I even thought about you
And took the time to save you a plate!

“Not only did you
Not think to call,
But you come home with stains on your slacks.
Then expect me not to notice at all!”

“Baby, I swear,
 I just made a run for some sweets.
It took me a while
Then I found Krispy Kreme treats!

“I was speeding on the highway
Trying to get back in time,
Then of course I dropped one in my lap.
Eating and driving isn’t a Krime!”

“Well, tonight it is babe,”
I said with a snarl.
“And since we are sharing sweet nothings,
My doughnut’s name is Karl!”

“My doughnuts are actually from
Krispy Kreme!
I stop for some wonderful glaze
And now you say you’re cheating on me?”

“We have a damn bakery
Right on our block!”
While I was ranting I didn’t notice
Joe had already loaded his glock.

Joe began to scream,
“Call the cops!
Tell them I’m ‘bout to kill you
Before your heart stops!”

I stood in disbelief
At the nerve of this man.
He comes home with stains on his pants
And is standing with a gun in HIS hand?

The neighbors must have heard
Some of the commotion.
I saw the red and blue lights
Then I heard the explosion.

After Joe was booked
For a number of crimes,
The police collected his clothes,
Something I’d seen on TV several times.

I took them straight
To the DNA lab.
There was plenty to test,
Not just a dab.

I got my results in about 2 days,
He was cheating
With a chick named
Chocolate with glaze!

Copyright ©2010 Natasha Guy


Copyright © 2010 Natasha Guy

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Speechless

I've had my eyes opened. I don't have a problem saying it publicly. I was wrong. It's not always a bad thing.

Copyright © 2010 Natasha Guy

Thursday, April 15, 2010

You sure times change?





Time’s A Goin’ On

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long way from home.

I sees a chile come walking ‘round  the street corna
Look like she bout knee high to a grasshopper
She’s totin’ that stomach ‘round like it’s a regular load
For a girl her age, ‘bout thirteen years old.
We don’t know if she choose to give what she had before it could be took,
Or maybe it was took before she knew she could choose to give it away.
Perhaps she thought she could buy her freedom with what little she had.
It’s all gone away now, ‘cept for the baby face…that stayed.
Will the baby’s baby be wanderin’ around lookin’ for home soon?
Runnin’ ‘round in clothes too small and saggin drawls?
Askin’ strangers with a bewildered stare,
“Anybody seen my kin folk ‘round ‘hea?”

Sometimes I feel like freedom is near
Sometimes I feel like freedom is near
Sometimes I feel like freedom is near
But we’re so far away.

Bet y’all thought I was talkin’ bout them slavery times huh?
Massa sat up in the house takin’ from the chillen what he felt he purchased.
Some of ‘em offerin’ it to him like it was a way up and out.
Some had it snatched away cuz they wasn’t willin’ to feed the cycle.
I wish those were the times I spoke about today.
Naw chile, this one I saw at the bus stop just yesterday
Hand on her achin’ back, body swole in the motherly way.
Yes sir, that ole machine is still crankin’ out slave bound chillen.
It’s just we done took over the production and labor ourselves.
Can’t blame all this hea today on Massa n dem, no ma’am.
Generations later and we still got chillen lookin for they mama.

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
A long way from home.


Copyright © 2010 Natasha Guy

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

On the spot...

True Colors

I’m gonna school y’all about colors just a bit,
So open your minds a little while I spit.
Just to let you know
Black is not a nonexistent color that forgot to show.
Because black in all actuality
Exists because it absorbs everything in its entirety.

So when you decide you want to throw hate,
Black soaks it up and hate dissipates.
You see nothing, nothing coming out
But suddenly there’s a black fist emerging from my mouth.
You throw opposition and give hard times at length,
Black like me absorbs it and serves up strength.

So if black absorbs you may wanna beware of white too.
See that’s the other side of me that will spit it back at you.
White is the reflection of everything you toss my way.
So keep the ‘tude in check; I won’t hold mine at bay.
Now if you want to express a little love to me
I can dig that too and maybe you and me can be “we”.

Anyway, I hope you really liked my little rhyme.
Just remember what you send out, comes back multiplied.


Copyright © 2010 Natasha Guy

Sunday, April 11, 2010

FYI

Inside

I'm not your bright skinned pet,
Not your red-boned mistress,
I'm not yours,
I'm mine.

I get to determine my value and worth.
I will not be boiled down, reduced to skin
Not colored skin on my face; not curvy skin on my ass.
I live beneath it all.

I am multi-ethnic as much as I am multi-faceted.
I don't like collard greens and grape drink.
I could care less about caviar and Perrier.
I eat Nori, Fried Chicken, and Pepper Pot.

I am musically diverse and I listen to what I like.
Yes, I own country artists' albums.
Lupe and Dre spin round my way too.
None of it defines me; it all contributes to me.

I stretch beyond my own walls and ask in multiple languages:
Comment ca va?
Como esta?
Kumusta ka?

So I will just ask one thing from you.
Put on a blindfold,
Just listen with your heart,
Not your eyes.

Copyright © 2010 Natasha Guy

Back With New Pieces

Mysteries Unveiled

Drunken splendor
Secrets locked
Tumbling out like
Alice down the hole.
Need a decoder ring
At the bottom of the box.
Broke it.
Now who can fix it?

Nobody can.
That’s right.
No one can make it right.
It will always be wrong,
Always dark,
Always deep,
Never shallow.
You can’t ever wade.
Hold onto the edges.
The only things stable
Are the edges that hold
The fluidity;
Contain the ever changing,
The never committed
Enough to tell.


Copyright © 2010 Natasha Guy


Alone

The hum of the refrigerator
Provides a background for the
Background music.                                                                                                

The ceiling fan’s repetitive motion
Casts soothing shadows across the
Three room studio.

Vanilla scents seep from the ends of
Willow looking rods resting in the
Glass chalice of oil.

My elbows sink deeply into the
Pillow top mattress that cradles my
Tired stretched out body.

His flavor still rests on my taste buds
While I reminisce about our coupled
Souls intertwined.

I close my eyes and
Feel his hands inching
Up my thighs.

His breath heats my skin
As he crawls the length
Of my torso.

The fire in his eyes
Ignites the factory within,
Increasing the pheromones in the air.

Our scents mingle
With the vanilla
Infused oxygen.

Breath sounds audible
In my memory even now
Days later.

My mouth waters at
The mental picture of
His manhood.

Bruises, handprints,
Sore throat, aching muscles,
Shaky limbs.

It was real.


Copyright © 2010 Natasha Guy

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

An April Piece

My Best Color

Call me Shawty.
My neck whips back and forth with words flying outta my mouth.
I’m down for whateva, wheneva, howeva, and I always got yo back.
I still bleed red when the bullets pierce my body.

Call me Mami.
My perfectly stenciled eyebrows and pouty dark red lips are strong.
The sweet language pouring from within is stronger.
I still bleed red when that girl’s razor runs across my skin.

Call me Holy Roller.
I’ve been Bible thumping all my life and I stay pure as the driven snow.
I look down my nose and hypocritically quote about God’s unconditional love.
I still bleed red when my knees hit the gravel I pound spreading The Word.

Call me Malibu Barbie.
My bleach blonde hair and purchased tan make me sizzle.
I show it all off in my speedy red convertible.
I still bleed red when the scalpel makes one more correction on my face.

Call me Brave.
In my dark, dusty skin I walk miles a day for water and food.
I provide the best I can for my two bastard children.
I still bleed red when the soldiers break in and rape me raw.

Call me Scared.
My shrouded, yellow skin keeps every inch of me covered from sight.
Bombs threaten my life daily as my men accompany me for safety and protection.
I still bleed red when I am stoned to death for looking at a man and smiling.

Call me Child.
Pink curtains and rusty mattress frames make up my world.
I remember being overwhelmed by adults better than I can recall my parents’ faces.
I still bleed red when they sell me to sex fiends and monsters.

Call me Mother.
I waddle into the hospital with labor pains.
I spend hours walking and sweating and pushing.
I still bleed red when they apologize for placing a lifeless infant in my arms.

Call me Innocent.
My body grows weaker and my bald head shinier,
As my cancer riddled insides drink radioactive poisons.
I still bleed red when it rejects the next treatment that kills so that I might survive.

Call me Battered.
Heavy makeup and long sleeves cover my shameful and guilty feelings.
Sunglasses and fake smiles fail to hide bruises inside and out.
I still bleed red as I ice my busted lip and broken bones.

I can be anything in this world that I want to be,
I can distinguish myself as an individual.
I can make a name for myself by being myself.
I am singly female
but
WE
still bleed red.

Copyright © 2010 Natasha Guy

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Sigh...

Echo

Your sound and fury touched every wall,
Completing the atmosphere.
I never felt the earthquake.


Copyright © 2010 Natasha Guy

I Don't Like Interrupting...

People go in and out of your life. Doesn't mean you don't miss them. I always hesitate to say it though. So I write it here instead. I miss you.

Copyright © 2010 Natasha Guy