I watched her as she started, even though she never knew I was looking
She stared at her challenge with thoughts raging through her headOnce feared that she would be dead, she overcame thatBouncing here and bouncing there, only to end up on top after the final bounceSo with every ounce of strength in her she began her raceThe pace kept getting switched up, because that what life doesIt alternates between slow, fast and just hurry up modeBreakdowns would sometimes implode her, yet they molded herShe didn’t know I was watching back then, and she still may not know I’m watching nowBut I stay in the crowd, looking for motivation when I need it mostSometimes, a person’s #1 fan never meets their superstarThey sometimes sit back and watch them, just to inspire themselvesEven if they are a self motivator themselvesWhile I lift, she runsTwo different souls with two different goalsAt the same time, one in particular is a common connectionWanting the same thing, patiently waiting on that to comeBut in the meantime, she set trails, while struggling over trailsLeaving trails of the past behind her in order to maybe find her selfAnd at the end, and she crosses the finish lineShe looks back at what she overcameAnd stands alone at the mountaintop overjoyedMeanwhile, her number #1 fan sits back with a smileShowing support from a farSee you don’t always have to be in someone’s galaxy to be their starRather you don’t need to be a woman’s man to extend your supportive handSometimes, all you have to be is a true friendThat’s what definitely makes some peopleUNIQUE
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Crack in my BumperI once bought a new car and in less than a week my baby got smacked, I said Ill be damned, now even though it was a fixable crack under my license plate I was still pissed off, I really wanted to haul off when I found out she couldnt present a license, registration and gave me an expired insurance card from a 2005 BMW on a P.O.S. 98 ford taurus, and to prove how crappy that car was we barely touched and her whole back bumper crumbled into pieces, and I started to think the same thing about my life, how sometimes we fall into pieces only to build ourselves back up, see Im a be truthful, I was once engaged to a beautiful woman who was everything I dreamed, financially stable, book educated, cute as hell, pretty smile, did any and everything for me, and I let my lack of forgiveness for one mistake get the best of me, so I made her suffer until she got tired, and after my anger subsided, I realized I was the tired negro who let a good woman go, I once was a nine year old who could ru... |
UNIQUEI watched her as she started, even though she never knew I was looking She stared at her challenge with thoughts raging through her headOnce feared that she would be dead, she overcame thatBouncing here and bouncing there, only to end up on top after the final bounceSo with every ounce of strength in her she began her raceThe pace kept getting switched up, because that what life doesIt alternates between slow, fast and just hurry up modeBreakdowns would sometimes implode her, yet they molded herShe didn’t know I was watching back then, and she still may not know I’m watching nowBut I stay in the crowd, looking for motivation when I need it mostSometimes, a person’s #1 fan never meets their superstarThey sometimes sit back and watch them, just to inspire themselvesEven if they are a self motivator themselvesWhile I lift, she runsTwo different souls with two differe... |
Artist...Not EntertainerI broke thru the barriers like HIV carriers broke thru the walls of whats scared to some women and left them infected, I subjected myself to ridicule and the name callin of fool, chauvinist, homophobe and anti black, I sat up many of nights, two steppin with my thoughts until we started dancing full fledged on the papers edge, I am a poet, an artist, I dont do this for entertainment purpose, see my purpose was made clear from the day I started this, and even though my motivation came from the possibility of catchin a kiss in a high school hallway, nowadays, my motivation comes from talkin the truth, whether its in a booth or a dim lit room, I have made enemies while doing this, which lets me know that Im doing my job, cause if some dont get offended and pissed off, your words mean nothin, my words have made tears flow from eye ducts and produced awestruck from the spittin of religion, my spittin has left samples of my saliva embedded in twisted DNA strands of floorboards, softeni... |
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I AM POETRYTake my breath away with the whisk of a pen, thats creates a wind of syllables and words that's meant to whirl inside the heads of those who read it, see this right here is more dangerous that any cyclone, this is lit preached without a microphone, this is the power this craft has, even when its written on paper, see I don't do this for the paper with dead faces, because I got enough of that earned from my journeys in different places around the world, but even if I didn't, I do it cause I purely enjoy this, the ability to make a woman rethink the first kiss with her man, or make a man scan his soul for the flaws that I exposed inside of him without direct conversation, I write these words in the air at the gas station, work, the club, Sam's Club, it dont matter, what matters is that I'm reachin thru to you and the masses, see sometimes my antics can be observed as classless, but those people forget that I got my PhD and Im qualified to teach on that of which others are scared to... |
LiquorMy name is JoeMac, and I am an alcoholic(clap), ok coo, Ill continue to be one then, see, first off, I cant help it, I'm addicted to liqour, cause when I get full of that liquor, it make me wanna lick her, flip her, take her and break her, give her a couple of shots, so now, I take me a few shots, gimme a shot of that brown, that white and that black, naw, not that crown black, gimme a shot at black, cause thats whats that white been doin for years, and all of a sudden their fears have turned to that brown, they crossing into a country stolen by thieves and now run by crooks, and they got the nerve to say they shook, sayin we losin this country, but you cant lose a country when you takin the drug money from another country, you just need a distraction to counter act ya criminal acts, so now, gimme a shot of that Trone, that Henn and that jack, so I can jack off and masterbate on needless stupidity in the black community, maybe they can catch my seeds, swallow em, and a new vision... |