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Derrick Walker
Oct 22, 20211 min read
The Reason for Her Tears
The pain, as I watched, welled up till it seemed to break her into pieces by the dozen. It was never her burden though she carried...
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Derrick Walker
Jul 3, 20201 min read
Change (the prequel 4)
We were bullish and willing to sacrifice ourselves because that’s what love does; it races in front of firing squads believing in what...
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Derrick Walker
Jul 1, 20201 min read
Change (the prequel 3)
Love, she cried for us, “say it again”, she cried as though poison was in a race with itself trying to be first through our veins. She...
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Derrick Walker
Jun 29, 20201 min read
Change (the prequel 2)
Love’s avalanche was the weight of life’s sliding scale as you cried out in anguish to stay love’s cruelty. We witnessed her duality and...
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Derrick Walker
Jun 26, 20201 min read
Do We Matter?
Tell me that I still matter, that #myblacklifematters, that we matter. #istandwithyou#blacklivesmatter#georgefloyd#justiceforgeorgefloyd#...
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Derrick Walker
Jun 24, 20201 min read
Change (the prequel)
Love was breaking like an avalanche crashing over me as I knelt I could feel the waves of snow packing itself into every crack within my...
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Derrick Walker
Jun 19, 20201 min read
Dear Love
Love, find me where my heart is. Find me where my soul pours out thirsting for you to saturate this earth. Love, put an end to the deaths...
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Derrick Walker
Jun 17, 20201 min read
Hues of the Sun
Like a criminal you live in darkness forsaking the very nature in which you were created – love. You take freedom because the cage you’ve...
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Derrick Walker
Jun 15, 20202 min read
Change Is Coming (Continued)
Shhh, can you hear the whispers of a song chaunted by a soul so misplaced that they were like stories of the damned because its cry could...
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Derrick Walker
Jun 12, 20201 min read
Change Is Coming
You hunker down, relaxed instep, arms touching arms, body’s shoulder-width apart, moving in promise, searching for those ‘undecided’ to...
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Derrick Walker
Jun 10, 20201 min read
I'm Fighting
It’s amazing how a turn of events can change a perspective. Whether it opens eyes or awakens something dormant it has the power to change...
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Derrick Walker
Jun 8, 20201 min read
We Are One
I see their faces and mourn the lost embraces because they were lives not just names. I pray that we love, that we resemble change, so...
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Derrick Walker
Jun 3, 20202 min read
Tear Gassed
I stood there with my face blooming, distraught from what felt like swarming bees eating through my eyes, and climbing into my throat as...
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Derrick Walker
Jun 1, 20201 min read
Saving Myself
We can’t change anyone or make them do anything that they don’t want to do despite how much we love them or how much it hurts our hands...
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Derrick Walker
May 20, 20201 min read
Jaz's Pursuit
Here's a quick rough of a piece that just kind of came together. I hope that you like it. Let me in by leaving a comment.
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Derrick Walker
May 15, 20202 min read
The War We Make (Part III)
Our bodies are twisted as though wrapped into a vine stretched out like sprinting for a gold medal. Her hands release their torment from...
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