Understand why, I am where i am today.

Understand why i am lying here down so deep with not one ...

statistics will tell you I'm black with a big nose and a taste for watermelon,fried chicken, kool...

walking around without a care in the world

hardly can function

mind full to capacity its deplet...

e yo dream, a bigger purpose waiting for you to be set free, listen to your calling in when that ...

Life seems a lot easier in your dreams, we have all the motivation until that alarm clock ring, o...

My deepest wisdom is leading me to this decision. If I am wrong I will learn from it, and my wisd...

Ive been listening to the same song on repeat for hours, thinking was it all in vain…
What...

How do ii speak ? well, not speak but how do ii seek that in which ii need? how do ii breathe wii...

you fall down harder then the towers,

not knowing this is your finel hour to do right,

you take...

Feel That? my breath against your skin our souls colliding trying to blend its the excitement wit...

Hear me when I say my words are true.

Scared as hell

To face the people who said I’d fail

As a father

As a husband

As a man

A prophet lied to me
Painting a picture for me to see

Prophesying to me
A prophet lied to me...

I sit and wait for what?

I stand and wait for what?

Waiting for what?

Tired of waiting, for wh...

Love vs money some people would choose money faster then you could even blink for the simple fac...

The dreams of young girls is to be swept off their feet
by a fine prince, and live happily ever ...

Reminiscing about a lot of things that should have had a great effect on me usually my old self w...

I lost a lot this year my saintly self respect pride maybe even the strength to go threw this thi...

A Mile In Worn Out Shoes

By: Keith Fuchs

Strife is strife,
It's pompous to define;
To minimiz...

How many signs do you need to show that greatness can be achieved. Can there be such a belief in ...

start kissing with fire and passion this is not even the beginning not even a warm up they pause ...

your sitting on your sofa with a short glass containing e&j mixed with cocoa cola the lights are ...

God what's the point of me going threw all of this I don't understand it's as if your trying to t...

The devil isn't attacking me any longer it's me attacking me you see the devil plays small rows h...

It's like the only one who understands me is me but this isn't about understanding it's about so ...

The love that's in my heart could never be taking away when everything is lost and they're is not...

Hate most people would use the word to express how they truly feel about someone who has either d...

I'm usually corageous and brave.

Here is a thought,

It runs deeper than my understanding of words

That man command power beyond ...

She should’ve never said that thing

She shouted when we fought

If he only listened to my...

My mistakes have made me strong

From doing things wrong to right and then back to wrong

I've cl...

I write to tell a story-to paint a portrait of myself

Reality is hard.

I keep from torturing m...

This World is full of characters

Everyone's deaf but not blind

One is quick to point out the we...

No matter how high I can reach there’s someone tugging on my coattail

It's emphaszied whi...

My house engulfed in flames.

With fire that’s untamed.

No water to relinquish it.

Iâ�...

Tears are steady forming

Like the clouds before a storming

Wish I could escape from it to somew...

I've only changed in dimension

Wild?

No, just exploring my visions

My mind is broader then the...

Calmer than the prequel to a storm in the pacific

Sometimes I’m feeling low but I’...

I don’t know the way to act

And love talk..for that I need a translator

My communication...

She’s the real thing—the opposite of generic.

Catch me staring at her beauty.

I c...

She used to be so soft spoken
Now she puts up a front acting all tough
Raged because she feels ...

Thick thighs, 5'3 or 5' Said she was just a friend My almond pupils glance between the ...

Why...do i love u?

I ain’t got no clothes, as I discard old woes
Old paths of fear, are far in my rear
As I...

For the moment all is quiet

till my heart begins a riot.

Its the calm before the storm

p...

people often ask me why i walk slow...

love is a powerful force

emanating

through the universe

resounding in every star

defying grav...

you sit at my table

and eat of my flesh

do my entrails warm you

of the cold outside

viscera v...

Changing the lock code on my phone frequently

to uphold my end of the secrecy…

Your...

I have the type of love that the window shoppers admire

Connection is the samples in interloping

Enveloping her surrounds of interior designing...

The world is yours

So look passed the hood and see the world for what it is

Don't do a meal whe...

a dinner for two at 8'o clock.

If I lose one more thing in my life
Be betrayed pull out the knife
How much suffering does it t...

Books piled to the ceiling
Do not disturb me I’m reading
On my desk paper scattered
In...

I am most happiest when I am writing

With my pen in hand

There is no end

Jotting down memories...

When things don't go my way the first thing I do is

Pack my bags & run

Run until I think my pro...

Heavy emotions had me open and chain smoking

I ain't joking

headache like a hang over

ye...

I am a black woman

i woke up at quarter to three but not in the afternoon.

i awaken to breath

light kissupon my neck

the softness of your touch

electrifying our bodies

bus leaves in five minutes

might as well be five hours

one minute feels an eternity

as the rai...

Tell me, how could you kill a child and then look him in the eyes through the eyes of his people ...

i can savor the taste of fear

riding the wind

as turbulently

as your troubled mind

seeks desp...

What is death to us? A bunch of tears, sadness, and mourning.

what is death to the heavens? well...

My girl is hot chocolate

Call her my Swiss Miss

Sweet lips that Chris Brown couldn’t kis...

Fingers twisted over 6 strings.

Wishing I had the talent to command them,

And place emotions in...

SOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO CRAWL

UP IN A CORNER AND DIE

MY LIFE IS TO MUCH TO HANDLE

I DON'T EVE...

WASH AWAY THE DISGUST

THE SCENT

WASH AWAY THE MOMENT

THE DAY I EVEN MET YOU

WASH AWAY THEM ME...

Trapped!

In a place

Where my dreams do not exist

And my voice isn't heard

Trapped!

In a plac...

You are my friend when I am alone

You keep me warm when I am cold

I speak my mind when I am wit...

scared to love

because of the frustration and pain

scared to love

afraid of getting hurt

fail...

holding on for all the wrong reasons

holding on because I don't know how to let you go

I keep a...

I believe that black love does exist

it is the sweetestkind of love that could ofever evolved

a...

What makes the great?
They arrive early and stay late
They say thank you and appreciate
They l...

Sometimes i wonder what will become of her

that scared little girl

it's as ifthe thought of loo...

another winter

a road well traveled;

heaven in her eyes

in between

her thighs

i Iie

to spy

her inner beauty

I have more to write about

more to recite about

if i live longer

I'llhave more to fight about

Once upon a time in my African days

stand back im startin to choke

your disturbing my flow

your grips istoo tight

let me go

where...

To make the woman I'm inlove with happy I'll have to give up everything an turn her against me y...

Chicken pot pie, pipe dreams, jelly beans and gasoline what secrets lies in between The lions

I ...

City lights so bright

memories flood my brain

dive into these thoughts

and i'm sure i'll go in...

My Imagination strecthes far beyond unrealistic

I am not in it today. My poetry is swayed by the ins and outs of the day.

I am a life force but ...

Life is good life is great Sometimes I get so excited I just can' t wait to see what I'll be deal...

Prick me and what is bled that I bleed

Verbal words of a young black woman's life and memories

I'm trying to make my mark before I short circuit, you know before I permanently leave

Gotta let...

I just want to be successful

That's right fellow poets, don't stop until you're higher then high...

I drown my sorrow in words

Drowned in nothing but adjectives, metaphors, and verbs

Gotta be cro...

A Love Daze Is Strong
Hearts Filled to Capacity
Cupid’s Bow is Now a Taser
...

I know that I'm a bad apple that fell long ago beyond the tree

But does that mean that no other ...

I don't hear you but I see you

I do it that way because I am not to play the fool

The soft bell...

Betsy adores itsy bitsy spiders and beetles in fields of strawberries.
Sporting a blue leotard w...

Left in the corner for the wall to hold

Lack of sunlight and water so from the shadows I mold

L...

Bottled to the top

Brain is unable to take a single drop more of unsettling thoughts

The absenc...

I see the anticipation across your face

Don't be scared boy and don't be ashamed

Inch a little ...

Daddy's little girl

Supposed to be provided viable lessons and the World

Maybe even some occasi...