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Flight

Inspired by The Longest Night

by Brandy A. Rogers 

Inspired by The Longest Night


In response to The Longest Night

Night
Carefully placed
movements
Searching for light
They might
learn how to lose
their tremble in the dark
Together
If they moved together.
Even in the dark just being together feels good
Coldness
Aloneness
Releasing fear
Dark is the metaphor for life.
Nur ala Nur
Light upon Light
Life upon life
Beauty in the break down
What is your sunlight?
Where is your sunlight?

I Laugh …
Time spent
Drained
In darkness
Wax & wain
Fight & fade
Into darkness
when I can
plan,
go
Flee this snow
Know
Damn
I’m stuck
Judging people
For pursing their dreams
While fear is…
My
Teddy bear
Fair
Farewell
I am a fair whether friend
I don’t know how to
Lighten loads of
Those weighed down
I am a drain
Drained of my own light
No more energy
to be light
This longest night
Fight
Rage against this damn night
I’ve suffered a solar eclipse
My whole dam life
Only
Fireflies &
Candles
Left to nourish me
Flourishing
Who me?
I’m so angry all the got damn time
Jealousy
See
Envy
Toxic ?
Purging
Cover me
Suffocating
this wound until the danger
living
in side can no longer breathe
Anxiety
Anxiously
All I know how to do is steal light!!
Fight cannot find me
Light cannot bribe me
Find me
Light
Find me


About 
Brandy A. Rogers
Brandy A. Rogers's mission is to inspire, love, lead, and challenge others to live life to the fullest and NOTHING less. She brings an eclectic perspective to her writing as a spoken word artist, actress, dancer, writer and educator. As a lover of Jesus, she advocates for personal transformation in all of her creative processes. Every artistic process is an EXPERIENCE! Her most recent spoken word & performance works include “Stolen: African Myths Turned American” (Blue Moves Modern Dance/OZ Arts MusiCircus) and her traveling and teaching work, "Project 24.” You can follow her on Instagram @brandy_a_artistry & iambrandya.com
OZ Arts Nashville presents Art Wire: an ongoing collaboration between OZ Arts and The Porch in which 10 writers attend the OZ Arts performance season and respond to the presentations through original writing that is personal, playful, and deeply engaged. The OZ Arts 2019-2020 season offers each Art Wire Fellow a diverse array of inspiration, including innovative Japanese dance artist Hiroaki Umeda; a genre-bending presentation of Frankenstein by Chicago-based company Manual Cinema; and two emotionally raw works with Nashville's own professional dance company, New Dialect, just to name a few.

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