Introducing: Poet Ashley ‘Ajay’ Johnson

World, meet poetess Ashley ‘Ajay’ Johnson of New York! I met Ashley through the wonderful cyberworld of Facebook, where she reached out and wrote to me about poetry! She entered the previous Miss Universe contest, and although she didn’t get the prize that time, I was still very much impressed with her poetry. Her poem, “Ghost of Malcolm’s Little Glasses”, and “Trip to the Sun” are beautiful pieces of work that she created with the fam over at Urban Word NYC. Check after the jump to read her work!

Ghost of Malcolm Little’s Glasses

I was a messenger of his intent.
Magnifying passion behind
his words in private
leaked through ducts
in frustration laced tears

But
He was a militant
A leader
shadowing heresy’s heroism
required him to be
Stoic
Emotionless
no wincing
when obligations dug their soles in his frontal lobe
it was hard to seek solace in Allah.

When the bullets pierced skin
Blood washed his memories of Mecca
and
my lens cracked.

I died too
You know
I was the mirror to his soul.

I choose revolutionary’s road
ignoring the easy pass
but now
I’d prefer
to be a mirror
that was thrown
Away

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