WHEN YOU FACE THIS WAY

WONDERS OF YOUR LIFE COMES INTO FOCUS

YOU SEE THINGS THAT REFLECT YOUR D...

We live in a timeof crisis

Scrolling social media feeds constantly on our mobile devices

Go...

Once juxtapose to the greatest generation

I rememberwhen the whole family wenton summer vacati...

You're familiar with my presence but a stranger to my touch. Unaware of my need to be your sensua...

I share for you

I hurt for you

I love for you

I feel for you

I'm weak for you

I cr...

I wish you could see

the beauty in me

the glow of my spirit

the need to be free

the e...

She set the tone unexpectedly,

casting a wicked spell on me,

She told me it can make me, and ...

You should be aware;

you do have a choice.

You don’t have to

watch select TV...

a penny for your thoughts…

strange…

billions spent

searching

for things alien...

They say the blindness of justice

Is designed to reflect her objectivity;

Now the s...

When you

think about it,

the very least

you can do

when called upon

to do ...

When rough traveled roads
Endlessly seam
Visions of impossibility
Begin to gleam.
Discouragin...

Brown eyes when met with mine
Captivate me by holding time
Allowing our auras to intertwine
As...

Bass beats whisper

To my inner ear

Dum-dum dum-dum dum dum

Dum-dum dum-dum dum dum

Du...

a deadline to the timeline until this fine line breaks ties that bind and define meaning of find ...

ordered glasses I was sent

the wrongs optic lenses

I sent them back now I'm

waiting to "...

Love is like a sprinklesugar

it make's ever thing sweet

even things that are salty

even ...

It's as if she's been here before. Experiencing everything all over again. Nothing new and with n...

Fossilized footprints, founded upon no intent

Looking for first ladies’ man with baby, beginni...

Juxtaposition

Moves are made

While the music played

looking outthe window

shows me what I see

looking inthe mirror

shows me who I be

cond...

she popped the bottle

a genie popped out

"what that wish be bout"

she told the genie

Perfection is Perception

Nothing or no one is perfect

No one is without flaws

If you...

Dont forget that you are a superstar so go supernova, have the universe fall in your wake.Bake it...

The Moth and the Butterfly

The moth asked God, Why am I still a moth, and not a beautiful...

Did it ever have to be like this? Its like we are caught in a racial tornado and all is wrong wit...

The system is going to maintain the system and you are just in piece in the middle. You have to p...

Clauses in the law

Often cause insurrections and exceptions for y’all

156 years after th...

when I was a child I put

my left shoe on my right

foot and my right shoe

on my left foot...

Inexplicable!

Justice tried and convicted:-

Guilty gets relief…

Inexplic...

life will kick us double back

kick us again spin the block

run over us put it in reverse

took the chain off the tree

took the chain off the beast

took the chain off the gate

"wh...

Funny story.... I stopped by Josh's Lounge on Friday to have a drink or two so I could relax away...

there will be no free ride in the land of the free don't get stuck in the free throw lane looking...

Chain lightningcast an eerie aural... glowing arc

followed by a low pitched rumbling

taking m...

of cosmic-terrestrial humanity

we were born

creatures of love

and for a while

re...

They said

Justice was blind:-

They lied…

Justice,

On holiday,

Got lost...

poetry is a mood swing

it changes how one feels

about living and dying

it changes the wo...

when it seem like the rain will

never stop and the storm will

never pass and life as we kno...

these words are not mine

they are yours though I

may be the one who wrote

them down they...

building blocks of anger will fall
like a tower of rage and the beast
will break loose and go o...

are words bare until they can
be defined with enough depth
and meaning to evoke a feeling
a br...

I needed some space and time to find myself and I think I lost some things along the way. I think...

It’s been said that history will never

Ever fade;

Remaining a mystery like sun devi...

touch not taste not handle not "it's hot" don't say it's not fire when it burns for heaven sake w...

articulate eloquent rhetoric pimp slick gift of gab limerick symbolic hieroglyph impressive expre...

Nineteen dollars for a cast of cake

Can't find anything but ten dollars

From a wake and bak...

I was born empty broken and torn

Unbeknownst to me my destiny was somewhat written

By my an...

we went together like a positive and negative vibe I remember telling you I'll never leave your s...

do not step in the way of my goal to reach I will not stop if I have to suddenly swerve the wheel...

one of us is gone one of us wrote this poem one of us didn't get to say goodbye one of us is alon...

Anger

Forgiveness

Sadness

Depression

Anxiety

Low self esteem

All things carried...

Spitting scripture

Vivid I painted a picture

Debated then illustrated

Leaving foes oh so...

Lord, I press upon your nerves
so that you could feel the pain
that only you can heal and if
i...

there are no breaks from
the craft when the mission
is to complete the mission
whether it be a...

I hear a lot of stuff
things I don't want to hear
but these ears of mine
they're made to hear
...

life throws everyone a bone
some get more meat on theirs
than other's "wow" that seems
cruel "...

I am right at this time
I am without hesitation
I am no longer a breath ago
I am without furth...

I didn't see what I heard

but I believed what I heard

that in which I heard

made me a be...

Woke up this morning

into the second day

of the long hot summer;

above in the be...

I can whisk away in my mind and be whomever I want to be in that moment

I smile and a warm feeli...

Wine tastes amazing after thirty years

Bottle sparkles dancing on my pupils like fizzing b...

Daily dozens doing deeds deceitfully, dangling dictionaries down ditches, dangerously downgradi...

I’ve tried to write you this a million times

And every time, I get stuck in time

I have...

it has been said

that we can’t be

two things at once

yet we go about living

a...

Inside, baptized with life in the ocean

Thereof, I came flowing down her

Loins scre...

In the blueprint of my life's design

All the traces

Of all i have ever wanted to do...

I think...

Never thought it'd come to this...

Never in this way

Never ... in a million years

Never to y...

Don't know truly who you are...

Until you strip away

All the bad judgements you have made.....

When first we metI didn't have a clue

You were a distant star

There seemed nothing i could do...

Suddenly I turn and look behind me.

I know it's there, it's trying to find me.

A powerful d...

I'm Still twisting weed up, throwing Hennessy up.

Loaded with one in the head, for cold night...

I've been, behind people, behind shadows, behind walls, behind bars.

Behind the barrel, be...

A Few Words About Racism

"It Exist"

I once loved..

and was introduced to "Pain"

Its teachings are staight to the point

Allowing me...

I tried to love with a broken heart

believing it would fix itself while

tinkering with the hear...

Be a Good N>gga,

I feed you Tokenism.

No true victories,

it's all wrapped in symbolism.

...

I put words in formation and stand them at attention. Strategically dismantle your conscious.

The color purple

May fade

But black lives

Must always

Matter

For and to us...

IN “LIFTING EVERY VOICE…”

Today, an extended family grand

Ask me:- “Papa, what’s a ...

shut my mouth I won't speak close my ears I won't hear close my eyes I won't peek hand me a pen...

time tick away subtracting days stuck on a labyrinth path it's all a maze half asleep all in a da...

Beginning with the celebration

Of our Juneteenth,

We prepare a new perspective

F...

(Apropos Of Juneteenth Celebration)

This is the day the Lord has made;

Let us rejoi...

Woke up this morning with freedom

on my mind.

I’m perpendicular to the blessed grou...

When you potential greets you in an attempt to meet you, acknowledge it to the full extent for it...

time waits on nothing…

sunrise is always somewhere—

also is the moon;

nature giv...

Truth kissed her goodbye;

Ignorance went on her way.

Awareness was born;

The ble...

NATURE’S

CHANGING

OF THE GUARD

Weary day grew tired;

Sun decided to retire:-

Y...

In the name of The One, The Highly glorified and praised worthy are you,

you are the source of o...

Buried,

beneath the present

…the past,

Beyond the persistent

…sense of pride

F...

Your mouth said "Yes"

but your actions read "No"

Actions speak louder than words, s...

I never realized how easy my life was back then

right after the custody battle and all the dra...

Annointed minds I mold...

MY pen is like the devils hold to a wicked sin

Let me go...

CHase yo...

you're not one of mine we're not one of a kind clip from the same vine you're not authentic you'r...

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