Don't grieve for me when I am dead
For I’m still here I’m by your side.
I am so c...

The past beats inside me like a second heart,

my yesterdays walk with me, it hurts,

it ...

Inspired by the profound photo of a woman in the Black Lives Matter, Baton Rouge Protest... Ieshi...

I want the worse kind of freedom, the one where you are truly free. You wake up in the morning an...

Eyes lifeless stare, envision questions of ...why?

Bullets rips through body leaving carnage a...

Never thought all of it will be mine to carry

I can't yeah so weak of m...

When Freedom comes

She will not find me on the highway

Holding up a thumb, holding up a sig...

You can build it up

We are going to, tear it down

We will not be bound

Standing our grou...

There are those who will bind you, with their needs

Sharpening their skills to cut you, just t...

*A love that is real will never die

* A love that is true will brighten our lives

* A love ...

Get it off me! I don't want it!

Can't take it! No longer fake it!

My inward becomes outward...

Can I be ya' Queen for a day?

24 hrs is all it will take.

Rub you, caress you,

undress y...

I am the ring around Saturn

spinning words as particles of ice and dust

with the power to trans...

Love...
The alcohol of a woman's heart
Forcing judgements to be impaired
Ignoring the inst...

Up until last week,
Things were tough, but I had hope,
That the future would be better and that...

YOU CAN BET YOUR LAST

Im on my way there

no pocket change

that'll probably change

soo...

At the Whitney Plantation with Johnny & Justin,
The tour guide was leading group a discussion,
...

Why are we so angry?
We shouldn't have to explain,
9/11, remember that feeling of helplessness?...

Maybe I created you
Like Frankenstein his monster .
Out of loneliness
I brought on disaster .....

You clamped your teeth down shut
Like a raging pit , jaws locked
When I needed you the most
To...

Young black sister and young blackman trapped in this savage land what you want to do it’s all up...

You won't hear me until I'm dead and gone.

I've been your age, you've never been mine.

The "Don...

Sweltering hot summer days Sun, high noon, wraps me into the warmth of each swell of it's breath....

We have all needed

in our lives

a rubber duck

of bathetic deliverance.

The world is so cold as the teardrops from the angel falls through frozen clouds for another chil...

I would love to hear from you when things are cool. But alas, this is never the case.

At the s...

#IKINDAMISS yourjealousy routine.

#IKINDAMISS knowing you drive down my street in the night.

I face struggles daily but I don't allow those burdens to weigh me down or cause me to lose hope,...

In search of a new beginning, a way out, an escape.

Physical signs of anxiety as the hairs ris...

If I pushed pride aside it would be suicide instead of homicide.

All for the purposes ofstrippin...

Today!!!

Be there if you can

fake play on words

be your self

be personal but ...

Not of the next day variety, essentially nourishing and providing

But rather of the lonely...

She like a breathe of fresh air my lungs can only worship in this toxic world
Her eyes brings me...

I do not wish to be labeled by the color of my skin
Seen as a kid whose future is more profitabl...

I was so angry

was mad at you

forgeting me like i turned into toxic waste

I was sad

s...

Tiananmen/Ferguson,
25 Years span their past,
Facing a tank and a bottle of tear gas,
Extrao...

What comes to mind when you hear these words? Is It the normal thought of a males lips connecting...

Being black in America is like having a fuse,
Racism is a match that white people use,
They inc...

Diamond's

unassailable

truths

Diamond Reynolds for her brave and outspoken video July 6, 2016

Saludos desde Sinaloa! poner en la nariz! poner ​en tus venas! Greetings from Sinaloa, put...

1080p High Definition virtual M-4s with grenade launchers, Heckler & Koch​ assault rifle w...

I took a look, in a little “BlackBook”, and what did I see? That we’re a bunch of “BlackShe...

Two islands, two hearts. Close , yet so very far….. Two people, shipwrecked. Roma...

One time I dreamed Aphrodite rose from the sea

All naked and glistening was she

"Why all the cl...

harsh wind

barbers rows of sunflowers

yellow carpet laid

free form haiku

Firmly I have sat at the entrance to my higher self.

Yet through your eyes I have passed this ...

The longer we are silent..the less our words are heard.. complying aint stopping us from dying. ...

How many more? How many more have to die? How many have to be killed in cold blood? Just for you ...

A blazing hearth

Food and guests at table

Two shy lovers standing

Off in a corner

The sla...

I am not great because I am an artist

I am an artist because am great

And that's how I al...

Trying to keep you safe..
If the police pull you over, do what they say
And when Black lives co...

skyscrapers

multitudes

midget

LOST IN NEW YORK

The bereaved cannot conceive,

Of the phrase, "Administrative Leave",

No arrests, cops still get...

dear Black Brothas,

the sun rose without many of you todaydue to some form of injustice.

My religion is true justice, even if I have to pass out a$$ whippings,

Respect to KingQadarDwo...

Last Sunday, my wife cooked twodelicious racks of ribs,
From the most tender, juicy and tasty of...

Another one?!558 so far this year.

It will end when we put a stop to it, not them.

And while ...

She said she wanted to know me,

I told her to look up Ptolemy,

Weeks later after she read A...

Spit fire like carney side show freaks,
With crazy lexicons that confuses geeks for weeks,
Inve...

Phrases amazes, grace replaces taste, postmark haste, lick stamps, email - cut & paste, delete & ...

Change is hard,
Starting over, cancelled card,
New location, same issues,
Friends forget but m...

Burnt Bottle Rocket sticks and firecracker paper litter the lawn,
Back to work and school - the ...

Im fed up
not talking with a spoon
life full of darkness
hope sun comes through
really need s...

I'm back though dressed in all black clothes
tried to lock me out
forgot about the backdoor
th...

YOU'VE HELD OUR HAND, LORD

IN DARK AND DIFFICULT DAYS.

PLEASE HOLD AMERICA'S HAND NOW.

O...

It went from

You

Giving me your all

To

You

Giving me just enough

To keep me int...

When you're waiting for an important phone call and everybody else but that person is calling y...

I wish I could just get away

Away from this city, this state, these people, my reality

A pl...

Jesus lord,
I know you probably bored,
With the vicious cycle of men's sin,
Then again, mayb...

Palms itch, hands shake, the anticipation is sublime, you're blowing my mind, without speaking a ...

These rhymes in my mind, spin like blades on a helicopter, never speak proper, Ebonics be my phon...

Streams of consciousness

Casting lines of confidence

Flotsam of consequence

Roug...

Its Friday, picture me rolling with rollers in my hair,
Like Big Perm, worried 'bout what they s...

Old and young dance and sing,
To the latest moves and grooves,
Hundreds of the same shirts roam...

In this world where some people

have turned their backs on beauty,

on the right to human di...

Welcome to the mind of a beast.. Unknown to most and translated by few.. None enter and few u...

If I seem to be in constant m...

My feet have tread this soil

half the expected years

I suspect I have been allotted

shou...

It was 06H30 Am on the faithful day of November 2010,

I was directed to Bread & Milk Street in H...

Qadar where you been?!

Dwon' where you been?!

For surely I haven't been chasing Dollars

Ju...

I'm cinnamon toast crunch,
You're Chex mix, yuck,
Imma G you a schmuk,
Wanna battle me? Good...

Do you want to understand any kind of self-blame or self-judgement no matter the extent, the beha...

Its a dare eloquent drama

No fair precedent trauma

Its a share fixed antenna

It was as if fire had leaned over and kissed me

My body immediately went up in flames

Yet w...

The dream is to fly

The hope is its worth the cry

The r...

For Dead Poets Who Yet Live

The earth swallowed you—

spitting out seeded words

to linger...