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...

Wrongs committed were not right, hope what's left is enough
To keep you here though I know Trust...

WE THE PEOPLE...US... COMPLECATED
CREATERS, CREEPING CAUCIOUSLY ALONE...
ALONG THE WAY, UNINFLU...

the river her home,
the frog left her eggs there;
fish came by to eat.

(For Sterling, Margaret, Maya, Nikki and Angela Louise)

Yesterday has come and gone; tomorr...

Ebony Hued Revelations…
(Lawd Ah Mercy!)

I
Here at the crossroads, we f...

it feels like

Im in a constant

Arm's race

But with

My Self

so I set my

Pace

I'm disappointed in my people today

for the lack of knowledge......

We're not taking the ti...