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Thought you were a friend to me befriended me an enemy, waited for the plot to thicken you held o...
Bent over backwards for you gave you my all, everything I had inside beckoned at your every call,...
Stones skipped across my soul’s river
Some skid, some drop, God knows how far
Yet in all th...
If ever i felt a tad bit out of place or like i didn't belong.... it's today
i mean maybe i sh...
Sometimes I want to just lay and cry
In my silent despondency is where all my sorrows be layin...
What do you do when lonelyness climbs up your spine and makes you shiver
Do you give in and qu...
Displayed in the middle of the floor womanhood dripping
Waiting for you to give me a licking
...in the forest of despair,
the evergreen of hope, firmly rooted,
stands in the midst of the "saw...
With the ever burning candle flame
of faith, we cuddle reeds of hope
and continue to chase
the...
(And We’re Still Together, Babe)
Growing old together,
We’ve mellowed
Like
Fine wine...
laboring through the trials of day
and the weeping pains of night---
from the quarry of life,
...
I got a fine woman for my childs mother, only if she knew how much I cared and that I do love her...
Flipping burgers for a buck, feeling stranded, I guess that's my luck, underhanded, sometimes I f...
Some one to love , one that don't judge, and if I wrong them that one don't hold a grudge, all I ...
Each day we are reborn, re-shaped and reformed, adorned we regress, in the eyes of the creator we...
Going no where fast cause in her past she is stuck
Heard her say *** love, but oh she loved to *...
Dear black men, please like me
I promise to you I'm not loud or ignorant, bossy or rude i don't ...
we do not cook the same
the food may be similar
but not taste the same
to some taste bud...
As I sit wondering, attempting to make sense of a voicemail
Heart broken, bleeding through my ...
I SPEAK
let my ink run over like pots boil
with the widows olive oil
go inside and shut ...
never recieving the real credit deserved
my pen moves so much these meta carpals are at a curve
...It has been a while since I took pen to actual paper
writing down these thoughts -trying
to...
crime influence,fluent ebonics
bars that mislead the scars that still bleed
the chronic negativ...
Can you hear them?
dripping down the faces of those who mourn
blurring the vision and overc...
arthritis and money diets
lumbar support and short patience
a toll on my role in my martial rel...
My pen to me is what a paint brush
is to a painter,
my poetry book sits blank,waiting to be...
her pride is diagnosed for muscular dystrophy
on every occasion she has arosed
her faith histor...
covered with a can liner standing in the rain
he awaits the train
headed for a soup kitchen mea...
I wonder if she feel how I hope I make her feel, I wonder if she feel as real as she makes me fee...
Life,death, space, time, fate and chance forces of the universe mysteries, bending nature's laws,...
My composure kept by the demons who hold me hostage praying on my weakness cowering from my stren...
where some of us are actually law abiding
but you all feel you want to keep deciding
our fate...
Like a rose our love grows, subject to all the harshness of this world and still we endure, with ...
Your like a hole in my head, you are the empyiness in my bed, you are the silence in between, wha...
Possessed by seven demons as they partake in the agony of my tormented soul, they fight each othe...
Icy winds scorch her numb face,
Howling winds each night,
Age fifteen living the street lif...
I inhale things too long,and when exhaled
it seems wrong
but am I supposed to hold my breaths ...
I have instincts, fear is a naked novelty, blinded by rage, im engaged. Life for life. I choose y...
April 27 2015
Apparently who I am does not matter to you
the fact that my heart beats j...
Memories of the distantpast
Who I once was before I closed my eyes
in order to see clearer
...Everything and nothing at all, cold in the summer and weak in the fall, everywhere and nowhere, a...
Out of my mind, should the punishment fit the crime, lying and decieving, a decision disbelieving...
Am I evil because I live by no bounds, my grounds, for dismissal is elemental, they confuse and m...
Destructive - Enemy - Vile - Inhumane - Liar
I see you as I look in the mirror, yourthe...
If I could have only one dream come true, I'd want to spend the rest of my life with you, I f I c...
I sit quietly in a ruined state, wanting to do a straight 360 or is it too late, not leaving ever...
I’ve been places, seen faces, many unknown
I’m in a race, of races, losing alone
See my skin is...
Universalism, this goes beyond the world, Nationalism, spread throughout the USA, Realism, in the...
I try to flee from myself but this we all know is impossible, would be a good escape if plausible...
Nothing will bring back joy,a relationship easily destroyed,to something that was good and sweet,...
Constantly I see them coming for me in my dreams the unconsciousness of my mind, they have me sur...
Jerome you were a good baby
Jerome you started to walk too early
long before you could talk
...Caged physically also I feel locked away inside my chest, though I have a name I am no different ...
Don't give me your pity, I deserve more and I think fast I am born of a big city, soft hands, tem...
I'm not going to see the light all the times
I'm not the best but that's not in my mind
Tomorro...
It's that time of the year where you stalk your prey
Endless victims night to day
Don't forget ...
They always told me the sky is the limit
I got my wings now, i can fly, i'm livin
High in the s...
like caged birds singing,
we chant no justice...no peace:
they don't give a damn.
flapping her steel wings,
mother eagle stirs the nest---
eaglets fly or die.
I
Time and patience:
The cadences you have kept---
A metamorphic journey
Through the cr...
every time I wake up
we breakup
what happened to making love
why are we faking love
I'm so ...
I like my pizza
cheesy
nothing’s wrong with greasy
grandma rarely cooked with
clean g...
on the pages of my composition
my vision is my mission
my dream my passion
proactive my ...
my heart is breaking
without aching
not into pieces
like broken bread
there is nothing left t...
I just hit that super pursuit mode. I broke free and broke out. I held your hand when I climbed o...
Success has an encryption and to crack that code, you have to crack that mode. The one where you ...
PSA:
These are the simple instructions that apply to you and me. If you didnt have when you bo...
a keynote speaker
drinking water from a beaker
2 liter soda pop
sports car 2 seater
a born bo...
Total destruction, we live our life rushing, slow everything down and we will make it clear safe ...
Fundamentally , economic and social power remain extremely unequally distributed, and show no sig...
Please God forgive me for I have sinned , protect those who are innocent and those that pretend, ...
I'm not writing raps
to make heads bob
and toes tap but I can do that
I'm on a mission
like w...
I wore plaid when I was
Knee high to a doorknob
I hated my dad so much that I
wanted to reach ...
memories in my dresser drawer
my reflection in a broken mirror
on the floor by the bedroom ...
we formed an ocean with our tears
we've climbed the stairs too
just to get to a place calle...
life
war
tears pour
torched by fire
missed the rapture
run for your life
don't ...
My Alpha male, my dom, my bad boy
you radiate with confidence
natural born leader, hustler, smo...
Baby don’t be no fool
The lies you are being told are the real reasons why you have not left h...
I woke up this morning with you on my mind.
Something within my heart needed to tell you somet...
Another year dayz come and gone, under the skies of heaven life goes on, sorrow and ecstasy alike...
Give yourself to me fully and freely, I hope that you want me and need me, I want you to feel me,...
Who knew the price
of a spring loaded knife
was the unheard of bargain
of another black life?
Your secrets are in your eyes mysteries revealed, when you look at me with the gift of love don't...
Further away from the most highest, loneliest man on earth, shouting out to heaven hoping hell do...
danger
in the air
smell it
taste it
Its presence
pervasive
blended fear
and ...
the hunger gang
is at it again...
on the fields
and in the arenas,
we are thei...
These wolves, they're out here, fitted in the finest sheep's clothing, kind words, blinding smile...