These pieces are written to be heard, not just read. They live in breath, pause, and tone-in the spaces between words, where emotion settles before language catches up.
My spoken-word work gives voice to what sits in the body: memory, survival, fracture, healing.
It is raw, intentional, and unpolished by design.
Each piece is a moment not performed at the listener, but shared with them.
Some of these works are available as audio recordings, others exist only when spoken.
This page will hold those voices.🖤
My spoken-word lives on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and other streaming platforms.
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The Lies Loneliness Tells
Fractured Mind Collection
The Lies Loneliness Tells explores how loneliness twists silence into
abandonment and distance into rejection.
Until the lies start sounding like your own voice.
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#DislexicPoet
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Her Yes
Little Bird Collection
Her Yes is a spoken-word piece about trust, presence,
and the quiet power of a choice freely given.
Sometimes a single word can carry an entire world of meaning.
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#DislexicPoet
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Ma’s Good Biscuit Tin
Poetry in a Northern Kitchen Collection
A spoken-word tribute to Northern Kitchens,
family memories, and making do with what you’ve got.
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#DislexicPoet
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I Fell Into Myself — Spoken-Word Album
Fractured Mind Collection
This is not just an album —
it’s a journey through breaking, surviving, and finding yourself again.
I Fell Into Myself is a collection of raw spoken-word pieces by Natasha C Akinfolarin,
also known as #DislexicPoet. Each track holds a moment —
grief, love, trauma, healing — spoken exactly as it was felt.
There’s no mask here.
No polished version of the truth.
Just real words, real emotion, and a voice that carries the weight of lived experience.
From quiet reflection to heavy confession, this album moves through the spaces many people don’t speak about
— the aftermath, the survival, the rebuilding.
Recorded with a calm, grounded delivery and subtle music, the focus stays where it belongs:
the words, the feeling, and the truth behind them.
This is something to sit with.
Late at night.
Early morning.
Or whenever you need to feel less alone.
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#DislexicPoet
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Almost
Fractured Mind Collection
Almost captures the silent pain of being almost enough,
But never enough to be chosen or claimed.
It’s the quiet kind of heartbreak —
The one that lingers,
That doesn’t shout,
But stays.
Not what was…
But what could have been.
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#DislexicPoet
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I’m Invisible
Fracture Mind Collection
A spoken-word piece about being seen but not noticed.
It captures the quiet weight of feeling overlooked,
unheard, and fading in plain sight —
while still finding the strength to exist anyway.
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#DislexicPoet
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Don’t Pretend I Didn’t Know
Dark Romance Collection
This piece sits in the space between knowing and staying.
It’s about recognising the truth in someone — the control, the damage, the quiet warning signs
— and choosing not to walk away.
Not out of weakness,
but something deeper… harder to explain.
Don’t Pretend I Didn’t Know explores that tension —
the pull toward something you understand isn’t safe,
and the honesty of admitting you saw it all along.
Raw. Direct. Unfiltered.
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#DislexicPoet
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Farewell Brother
Fracture Mind Collection
Farewell Brother is a deeply personal spoken-word piece about love, loss, and letting go.
It honours the unbreakable bond between siblings and the quiet ache
left behind when someone you love is gone.
Rooted in grief but carried with tenderness, this piece sits in the silence that follows loss
— and the memories that remain.
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#DislexicPoet
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Loss
Fractured Mind Collection
A quiet piece about the aftermath of loss —
the silence, the routine, and the weight of what’s no longer there.
And sitting in the silence that’s left behind after a loved one has gone.
Not healing. Not closure.
Just sitting with the absence.
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#DislexicPoet
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Forgotten Love
Fractured Mind Collection
Forgotten Love explores the strange pain of recognising someone your heart knows,
even when your mind cannot place them.
The body remembers what the mind has lost — a voice, a scent,
a feeling that once meant everything.
It is a quiet piece about memory, absence,
and the haunting echo of a love that refuses to completely disappear.
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#DislexicPoet
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Grief
Fractured Mind Collection
This spoken-word piece explores grief as a physical experience,
not just an emotional one.
It speaks to the weight in the chest, the tightness in the stomach,
the looping thoughts that refuse to settle.
Grief is described as something the body carries before the mind can explain it.
At its heart, this piece reframes loss with a simple truth:
Grief is love with nowhere to go.
This performance captures the quiet persistence of memory —
and the enduring presence of someone who mattered.
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#DislexicPoet
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We Don’t Heal — We Manage
Fractured Mind Collection
This spoken-word piece challenges the idea that trauma simply disappears once we’ve “healed.”
In We Don’t Heal — We Manage, I speak about the nervous system,
triggers, and the quiet discipline it takes to live with what cannot be undone.
Some wounds do not vanish. They leave imprints.
They reshape the body’s responses.
They change how we move through rooms,
how we scan for safety, how we regulate ourselves
This piece is not about defeat.
It’s about skill.
It’s about learning what steadies you.
Knowing when to breathe.
Knowing when to leave.
Knowing who gets access to your softness.
Management, for me, is not weakness.
It is awareness.
It is strength in motion.
This is survival spoken out loud.
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#DislexicPoet
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Under My Skin (Trust)
Little Bird Collection
Under My Skin (Trust) explores what it feels like to experience safety after a lifetime of bracing.
This spoken-word piece centres on quiet presence — not rescue, not control, not intensity —
but someone who stays. Someone who reads fear without forcing it away.
Someone who anchors rather than pulls.
It speaks to the body’s old instincts: the tightening, the preparing, the expectation of harm.
And then it captures the shift — the moment where softness is not a threat.
She doesn’t fix.
She doesn’t claim.
She simply holds space.
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#DislexicPoet
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The Revolving Door
Fractured Mind Collection
The Revolving Door is about returning to the same old pain .
Again and again.
Walking through the same door,
hoping it will be different.
Until one day you stop.
You see the patten.
You choose yourself.
You say ”no more”.
There’s liberation in that.
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#DislexicPoet
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Her
Little Bird Collection
Her is a poem about being vulnerable
and learning how to trust.
About opening up
when it would be easier to stay guarded.
About letting someone in:
Slowly. Gently.
Because strength can also be soft.
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#DislexicPoet
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The Body’s Contract
Fractured Mind Collection
The Body’s Contract explores that stored memory:
the tight chest…
the flinch, the exhaustion, the inherited fear.
It questions what it means to heal when the body is still holding the evidence,
and what it takes to renegotiate that contract.
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#DislexicPoet
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From Water To Wing
Fractured Mind Collection
From Water To Wing reflects the process of becoming.
It captures the movement from drowning in old wounds
to rebuilding yourself into something stronger.
A piece about rebirth, self-belief,
and the power of rising beyond what once defined you.
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#DislexicPoet
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Just For Tonight
Fractured Mind Collection
Just For Tonight explores vulnerability in its rawest form.
It captures the fragile space between longing and self-protection —
the moment where you choose closeness, even knowing it may not last.
It reflects on temporary comfort, emotional honesty,
and the quiet surrender that happens
when you allow yourself to feel without guarantees.
It is about needing connection, not forever —
just enough to soften the ache.
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#DislexicPoet
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The Shape Of You
Little Bird Collection
The Shape Of You is a poem about trust —
the slow, delicate process of letting someone see you without armour.
It explores emotional exposure,
the fear of being known,
and the courage it takes to soften in front of another person.
The poem explores how connection reshapes us…
how love, when it is steady and safe, can gently redraw the outline
of who we thought we had to be.
It is about learning that vulnerability is not weakness,
but strength shared.
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#DislexicPoet
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Where I Let Her In
Little Bird Collection
When I Let Her In is a poem about trust and gentle surrender.
It explores the quiet moment when walls lower,
not out of pressure, but by choice.
It reflects on emotional safety,
the courage to soften, and the vulnerability of allowing someone
into spaces that were once guarded.
It is about consent, presence, and the slow unfolding of intimacy
built on care rather than control.
This piece honours the strength it takes to open —
and the beauty of being met.
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#DislexicPoet
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Silence Held the Throne
Fractured Mind Collection
A spoken-word piece about power without noise.
This poem explores the quiet authority of restraint —
the moments when silence becomes strength,
when not reacting becomes control,
and when stillness carries more weight than words ever could.
It reflects on survival, emotional discipline,
and the kind of presence that doesn’t need to shout to be felt.
In a world that rewards loudness,
Silence Held the Throne reminds us that sometimes the most powerful force ,
in the room is the one that refuses to break it.
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#DislexicPoet
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Unshackled
Fractured Mind Collection
Unshackled is a spoken-word piece about release,
reclamation, and personal freedom.
It explores the emotional shift that happens
when we stop carrying what once restrained us —
whether that be fear, silence, expectation, or past pain.
This poem reflects the moment of awakening:
when survival turns into self-ownership, and endurance becomes strength.
It captures the quiet but powerful decision to step forward
without apology, no longer defined by what tried to hold you back.
Unshackled is about standing in your own ground —
not as a reaction, but as a choice.
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#DislexicPoet
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