If I beat my fist up against a wall

I am...violent

If I beat my fist up against the law

I am.....

ThereLere times, I didn't look back

But, I find that memories attract

Things I need to atatch t...

Mama / I hope you know you raised some warriors / and what's running through their veins is battl...

My brother, what becomes of a trap when pressure takes the form of a woman, in other words, that ...

She is steadily the wrath of determination,

I know U,

Her voice across my mind,

U know m...

Connected points made paths-

Connected minds birth ideas-

Connected hearts, more care-

C...

Blessed be the light of day to mark my way

Unfortunate or Fortuitous I must move in stealth

Dear Poetry……How did we begin?
Seems like now we are more than friends…
Casual was this acquain...

Jesus I no longer want to be me mentally, emotionally even physically

I want to be you mentall...

I tried to write about love and hope,
But the words just didn't flow,
I understand what I'm sup...

Eyes like fantastic moons that shiver in some stagnant lake

folded like a white rose-leaf

hair ...

Where I let the sun hit me

Darkness overcame

The world said it was a shame while the earth ...

The sweet, almost sickly, smell of flowers

cut through the soft scent of the morning's dew-cover...

This blue bridge holds my physical and mental mass,

staring right at the diameter and circumfe...

When she touch me, she touch the inner cordor of my soul with every being of her existence ....he...

As I sit on the train , I feel eyes on me or is it the brightly colored balloons floating out of ...

Trait ...
What is the definition of trait ?
Trait is a distinguishing quality or characteristic...

There is a time when you can no longer just read,
You must act, you must think, you must write, ...

Whenever I'm full of self-doubt,
I often curse myself out,
In my mind and under my breath,
Pit...

Her black body in motion

Chromatic vistas giving artistic delights

Hands with palms glowing...

My Heaven
My Hell
My Joy
My Pain
My Heart
My Soul
This Mind
InSane
This Hurt
This Love
...

My Heaven
My Hell
My Joy
My Pain
My Heart
My Soul
This Mind
InSane
This Hurt
This Love
...

Treasure buried beneath this solid concrete
Rebars overlap leaving these reinforced gaps
One's ...

For the past few years,
I've been a cog turned by a dozen gears,
I've had trouble getting a loa...

When black people are treated unfair,
The economy & stock market goes opposite of bear,
Early J...

We are so quick to say, "blacklivesmatter",
when gunned by another race
But it is okay for a bl...

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