Black Barbershop

See you when the light’s bright!

I’m so apoplectic, I'm overcome with anger

With the last inauguration, my nation became a stranger

Presidential pardons, billionaires bending backs and knees

Cryptocurrency and AI, inflation will drive up the price of eggs and cheese

The middle class is last, replacing omelets with corn flakes and water

My mother and wife’s past was brighter, compared to the dim future of my only daughter

Trying to make heads from tails, but my conscience asks why bother?

Wild fires burn in California, as snow falls in Louisiana

Used to be a fan of Nelly and Snoop, but I deleted Doggy Style and Country Grammar 

Up is down, wrong is right

Our sticks and stones are useless, as America challenges us to a automatic rifle fight!

So we’re hibernating for the next 4 years, see you when the light’s bright!

Time, water, and sand

Notice… how time moves in waves

Like water at the beach

Slow, until the sand shifts

That soothing spritz

Tickles your feet, as the water retreats 

As it always has done

You are already one

With both the water and the sand

Understand?

Make them believe like a fairytale lead!

Ideas to reality, work from success

Critics first doubted, but now they’re impressed!

You had to make them believe

Like a fairy tale lead!

Years of perspiration and winkles, on worn rolled up sleeves

Hands get filthy when one builds impossible dreams!

Dirt plus work yields the birth of great things

Dirt under your nails

And cloudy water in buckets and pails

You got it out of the mud

Like a worm or a bug 

Persistence paid off in due time

Doubters bore witness once your treasure began to shine!

Thoughts sprouted and grew like a tree

High in the clouds, though most still can’t see

The roots that anchor and nourish reality

Family separated by slavery

My last name is Moore

Because during the Civil War

My Great Grandfather (age 10) was a slave

On the Gordon plantation, and some jerk with the last name of Moore paid

$500 dollars for a kid that was good with a horse

That transaction split up a family in Tennessee and changed the whole course

Of my family’s history 

Beyond ‘emancipation’ the Gordon’s remained a mystery 

To our family for a few scores and a century!

Until my father, our family’s genealogist

Did some research online, and discovered historical records at some colleges 

Birth and death certificates, and DNA cousins on Ancestry.com

They had an annual family reunion in Nashville and invited my dad along!

Dad said it was so odd to walk around the hotel lobby, where the reunion occurred 

To meet so many strangers that looked and s...

The more you know

Scientists say that it rains diamonds on Neptune…

They must study something more useful soon

Sustainable food and clean water for those most in need

Discover aquifers and more disease resistant seed

How about laws to ban violence and greed?

No more gadgets and gossip to consume 

Less division, more understanding and room

Diamonds in space are useless if millions are still starving and cold

As the powerful few steal and horde all the diamonds and gold

Rebels of the future, know once you destroy the status quo

Ignorance is bliss, sorrow grows with the more you know…

Thanksgiving is the celebration of Pilgrims killing the Wampanoag people

If you have hair that can defy gravity

Why not just let it be?

If your history lies about our reality

Why not acknowledge the fallacy?

If your beliefs subjugate the global majority

Why don’t we all challenge their fake authority?

If Thanksgiving is the celebration of Pilgrims killing the Wampanoag people

What makes you think, that they think, you and them are 'equal?'

If money and power is just fiction

Then why don’t we just write a new description?

Love is war!

I have been with my spouse for over 25 years

The key to our union is a delicate balance of expectations and fears

We have been in a constant state of conflict since the day we first met

Courtship is a battle, full of wins, losses, and regret

Comprise, doing and saying things against our will

Administering a tail of potions and poisons by elixir or pill

Daily battles make up wars, decades in length 

No matter the reason, limit compromise and negotiate from a position of strength! 

Sharing a bed is a tug of war of pillows and sheets 

Silent struggles, the loser is the one who first speaks!

The best advice that I can share, regarding the cause of the most common marital strain

Is to declare war on the thermostat, I know it might sound insane!

But chances are that you and your most significant boo

Can never agree on exactly what to...

Where I am versus my desire’s dream

Fail to succeed 

Replace want with need

Success has an expensive fee 

A result of thousands of mistakes 

Joy is brief, disappointment may replace

Give and take, sacrifice, rewards, envy, hate

Impossible is everywhere and answers arrive late

Where I am versus my desire’s dream

May as well be somewhere in between 

Distant galaxies and an inch within my grasp

Decades wasted and some wrong decisions in the past

Carved in stone, but now time moves by so fast...

Lessons learned, but mistakes still take place

Seasons change, gray hair and wrinkles changed my face

‘White Bread’ enough is enough!

What math was used to build Africa’s pyramids?

1,000 years before ‘Pythagorean’s theorem,’ is

Western, math and other facts just one big old lie?

Were all Native Americas supposed to die, were all African slaves just happy to work for free, hell is water even dry?

If some of our ‘knowledge’ is fiction, and most of the ‘truth’ a deception 

Then my reality is twisted, and I disrespectfully demand an exception!

I refuse to participate in this madness any longer, the ruse is up

The global majority has the numbers, the will, and power, ‘White Bread’, enough is enough!

Hip Hop in middle age…

I’m getting old, but not quite 50

When my rage explodes 

Transform like Bill Bixby

Hulkin’ out

So big and green

That I ripped my jeans

But I doubt that most will even get that reference

From old tv shows

I suppose I was the same

When the former generation

Would claim disdain

And a lack of respect 

From all of these little whipper snappers

Living with no regret

Responsibilities, fears, or plans for the future 

Writing checks and spending cash that their asses ain't even earned yet!

No mortgages, wars, discrimination, and pain

They no longer fight the power, rather seek out to claim

Mere fortune and fame

Making videos, asking strangers to subscribe and like

Their opinions and comments, every hour of the day and night