My Sunlight
You are my sunlight
That shines on every part of me
That you touch
Leaving burns from your rays
Deeping my skin tones
Because you’re too much…
Doctors say I need protection against you
To avoid getting cancer
But I can’t cancel your love
From entering my system
Sunblock or not
You’re the hottest thing on the block
Baby…
You take me to solar systems and extra-terrestrial climaxes
I couldn’t even dream of
They can speak of your past, but I look past your exes like Pluto
Irrelevant, no longer included in topics of conversation
What I’m saying is
You’re unique
And I like it
There’s not a single thing I would change about you
There’s this wave about you
So cool and rhythmic
The night time is your high tide
When the heavens seem to pull upon you
And I, in return get to witness your fluid beauty
You, wet up my wide landscapes
With your deep, blue, sea
I need you near me
You see,
Like I need oxygen from trees
A forest of men
Couldn’t begin to nurture me as you do
You don’t exist in a typical setting
Chopped down and created by man
You stand firm in a distant land
Where demolishing you would cause you to go extinct
You’re One of a kind
And you’re all mine
Mind if I sit here up against your branch
And collect the sweet moss
That drips from your bark?
The dew that drips from your leaves?
I’m on my knees
In awe of your thick trunk
You’re so beautiful and balanced
The only thing dark about this relationship
Is your skin
When nighttime returns you blend in
Encompassing me in the dark
Blinding me with your body
Only to peacefully return to me in the sunlight
With that smile so radiant
I’m sun bathing in it
Doctors say I need protection against you
To avoid getting cancer
But I can’t cancel your love
From entering my system
Sunblock or not
You’re the hottest thing on the block
Baby…
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Morgan Renae Myers is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina. She grew up attending middle school at Penn-Griffin school for the Arts and Southwest Guilford High School in High Point, North Carolina. From 7th-12th grade Morgan was immersed in an expressive environment via classes in Theatre, Dance, Art, Guitar, Piano, and Fashion Forward: a modeling troupe (to name a few). Upon graduation Morgan attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and earned her Bachelors of Arts & Sciences in Communication Studies in May of 2013. While attending her university, Morgan was a very active student. She was a member of Well Versed Xpressionz (an elite poetry club on campus) and held multiple positions within her sorority, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. Morgan worked with special needs as a Teacher Assistant within the Guilford County Public School System; she now works part time with special needs clients one on one and utilizes her entrepreneur mindset to sale her crafts, oils, and plant-based meals. In 2015 Morgan began hosting her Unwind Wednesday’s Open Mics which is now an art-interactive open mic called the Real R.A.P. (Rhymes, Art and Poetry).Morgan doesn’t stick to one specific genre with her writing and performance; because she is also an activist on many issues; her work usually stems from personal experience and isn’t coated with difficult to understand imagery or metaphors. She has been known to be educational, straight forward and to “keep it real”. Morgan hopes to “be a servant to humanity and use my words as talent to submit messages to the masses that empower, educate, influence and inspire.”
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