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Sometimes, all you can do is hold yourself together and try your best to stay strong,
Even when it feels like everyone is against you and that everything you are doing is wrong.
You keep trying to piss me off with the games that you play,
But I don't think you realize who you are dealing with, and that I can go all day.
You want to slam doors, and you think that I am going to go back and fourth with you,
You are right
And I’m wrong
Like a bad song
I keep my lips tight
And my face as long
As I can all year long.
You tried your best to break me,
You thought you could shake me.
You wanted to try and fight me,
You thought you had defeated me.
You thought you had me knocked down,
Girls must have the undeniable rights to speak,And the God-given rights to choose and pick.Girls must have the rights to be educated,To be respected and to be protected.Girls are human beings too;
This is my gay poem
My poem about pride
And about finally coming out to my parents after 23 years
But you know some news falls on cotton-filled ears
Never bothering to ask where they got the cotton from.
A switch is what it’s like between me and you.
One day you’re turned on and I’m off.
What should I do?
You scream so loud to try n’ get through
Frozen Wind was a warm road selected for the journey
Oftentimes written as though the author knew the act
I will challenge them many, walking the steps, the undulated concrete
The year I was born
Was the same year Matthew Shepard was murdered
The same year blood filled our televisions
And anger burned our throats
The year I was born was when everything changed
Today I am a sad poem
Not because of any man
Or any woman either
Not because there is nothing to be happy about
And I have much to be thankful for
I am a sad poem because I’m sad
I waited for you in the hallway
But I did not hear your voice
I waited for your call in the night
But my phone did not stir
I waited for your love
But it would never be mine
Notre Dame will win the game
Cause gold & blue
Is nothing new
And the golden dome
Will take them home
To blue delight
Where Irish fight
He fights every battle
He seizes every throne
He brings bloodshed and destruction
To every home
He kills with no mercy
They promised it'd get better.I told them I believed them.It's been 3 or 4 years.And I still don't see a thing.For who am I doing this?This hasn't been worth it.I'm waiting and waiting.I'm not allowed to say I'm not strong enough, I've come all th
#Black Lives Matter
Its not enough.
Its not enough,
posting a black-out screen on instagram
Children grow up in fear around the world.
In fear of leaving their homes,
Time was like water but you were like wine
Sweet ocean, bruised, black, and bleeding the times
Yeah, time was like water but you were wine
I cant remember when you were mine
Hate swelled up inside me,
choking me,strangling me,
hiding myself from behind it
i could only stand and watch as i bellowed
and shout at my friend.
I heard me abuse him,
Every nun wears a ring
Brides of god
an astonishing act,
as if deception of hell
came true with bush marks
and artists cheering
Rain is wetting windows,
but what about trees
The lights of the city glide within me
but do not pierce through me with their glitter
deep in me there still persists the black depths
of the black history i hear singing
This is the dark time,my love,
all round the land brown beetles crawl about.
the shining sun is hidden in the sky,
red flowers bnd their heads in awful sorrow.
This is the dark time,my love
When i was stumbling
in the dark,confused
and crying out for help,
this friendly fello seemed amused;
And while i fought like anything
to keep the candle lit
he cheerfully reviewed
It's been a while now
I used to cut and cry and repeat
But now I finally know
How that battle can be beat
A day out of 366
Stars spun around and spanned
My words spiced with salts of a hysterics
The loneliness of which is damned
But joy I keep, is even
And when I sip, the life goes on
i am the sun --
bright and joyous,
rarely clouded,
warm and friendly,
unknowingly smothering.
he is the moon --
cool and collected,
you are blue in its dullest and brightest forms.
you are the sky, throwing your arms open above me with no clear idea of what you're trying to reach.
no matter where i'm looking, i always see you.
yell, scream, shout
silence is scarce.
with every word spoken, a new argument begins.
each room of the house is a minefield.
i tread lightly, but somehow always become collateral.
Why is it so hard to get better when that is what you really want to do?
Some days it is easy, and other days it is so hard that the thought of being in control is something that you can't do.
Shadows sorround me
Nights never go and never ends
Deep waters drowned my hope
And the glittering lights are all gone
Lights of happiness come now
Glimpse your hope to me abound
I can not fillthis empty void in my chest.
I donot have a constant emotion because they play games of back and forth like playing Red Rover in elementary school, or playing me like their personal game of chess.
Courage, pain, pleasure,
All emotions expressed in one's life,
Some bring beauty and other's stay hidden away,
Locked away in a box, growing heavier every day
Don’t be afraid to walk this way
Don’t be afraid of life
Don’t be afraid to try new things
Don’t be afraid of light.
Darkness might make you scared
All my insecurities are drowning me in the depth of my despair
Coming to the surface once more to remind me of the girl I used to be
The girl that used to put on a mask for everyone to see
Clouds, the molecules within them
like crystal beads of regret.
They left one another alone for too long
and they cried themselves into a snowstorm.
“A disastrous war will lead to our freedom.”
Or so, you say.
“There is no path. It’s the only way.”
Fight to the bitter end
It's HARD These Days To Fight ... " The Good fight " ... !!!
When So MANY Things Are Kept From ... "Sight" ... !!!!!
Shine like a diamond when the world calls you coal
Ignite like a flame, even in winters so cold
Fly like a dove when storms are approaching.
Stand tall like a tree, when no one is watching
The air is cold, but not cold enough for snow
Not yet
My heart is broken, but not broken enough for tears
Not yet
You thought you defeated me, but I’m not defeated enough to let you win
Not yet
The happy days of the playgroundhave disappeared.
How can a little freckled size bugcause so much anxiety and fear.
Now every day is a battleBetween a dark depression and a fading light of hope.
I can see you lurking in the darkness, I can hear your voice in my head, I've felt the tear drops as they've fallen due to the horrible things
Don’t give up and never give in
Keep fighting the fight and someday you’ll win
So don’t give up and never give in
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again
This world will not greet you
I entered the cold and windy sea
To see what I could see
There was something I had in mind
A treasure I couldn’t find
I was searching for a crab
To fit the habitat that I had
Good bye uterus
You were ridiculous
Crying bloody tears for years
For years
You tried to kill me today
I said no way
Hysterectomy
You want me to feel broken
Alone, nowhere to go
I’ve heard the blades you’ve spoken
I have the scars to show
But I won’t stand by complacent
Won’t let you spread your hate
You hit me hard
You played your cards
You broke a glass
And caught the shards
you broke my heart
tore it apart
You left me here
Nowhere to start
So the story goes
Yes I am broken, but I am not defeated. I am like a salmon breaking through the surface of the water in order to fight the current. I am a glow stick breaking in the hands of a child on a summer evening, spreading my light.
Forgiven
not forgotten
hard work
for what I’ve gotten
knocked down
kept on knockin’
fell down
kept on walkin’
Shut down
kept on talkin’
don’t give up
When I was a child I used to wonder why the veterans in town didn’t like the fireworks on the 4th of July. I thought that’s what they fought for, the freedom to make things go boom.
I do not care for violence
Yes, you heard me right
But if you hurt a friend of mine
Then get ready for a fight
I was raised on stones and firewood
With hot coals beneath my feet
Always one to fall in line,
I learned early to obey.
Silence and respect protect
Against the everyday.
So sick of crying but more sick of you
The yous who are telling me what I should and should not be feeling
The yous who are telling me how I should be healing
None of you know, how could you nor do I
People talk, people stare,
that doesn't leave me to wallow in sorrow.
no excuse to let down a tear,
when there's a greater future in my tomorrow.
Labeled an extra after sixteen years of never surrendering.
Becoming a quiet murmur in a background of a thousand,
until the exploding power of "o's" and "a's'",
Robbed of a sweet childhood,
you stole my innocence.
I wanted to save you
and you punished me for loving you.
I wanted to take your pain away,
you wanted to intensify my heartache.
All my life I've guarded
my closest angels as they fell ill,
Cursing sickness with demonic persuasions
and washing down pills
with deadly compounds dressed in glass.
All my life I've watched
he's a liar.
fear whispers in your ear,
looks over your shoulder,
places his cold hands
around your neck.
"you can't possibly
do it," he says.
"thinkthinkthink
How hard is it to breathe?
When your mind is not at ease?
In a sense you think you're fine, try to hold it in inside.
You affirm yourself, "I got this".
But you're not the kind who's reckless.
i'm afraid.
it's a feeling i can't escape from — nothing i can turn a blind eye to, skip over, forget.
The cursor tsks at me with every flash
Impatient for the first mistake
Sneering “I told you so”
Before I have typed a single T
How can I encapsulate every fear, doubt, anxiety
I stood firm on the sands of time.
Mind fresh, troubles having no rhyme.
What did I have back then to lose?
A new stage of life to bemuse.
I speak of my first days of school.
proceeding I knew not one rule.
I want, I need
I’ve laughed, I’ve cried
But I’m not to crazy
To commit suicide
It’s not my only choice
So stop saying that it is
I remember it like it was seconds ago.
Anxiously,
Waiting in the hall for my group to be called
To awe a table of discriminators
And teach these other girls a thang or two as if I was an educator
It's the same thing everytime.
A presentation is assigned.
Names starting with "A" are the worst.
I know I will be called on first.
And sure enough, without a doubt,
Even if I'm not happy, Jesus will still be here.
God will still hold my hand when I'm filled with fear.
They still think I'm beautiful when I think I'm ugly.
My feet pitter pattered as I walked towards the stage.
My hands are starting to become clammy.
I wonder, should I walk back or engage?
When I look at that face there is nothing in. This world more clear then what I see, this is someone who’s achieved nothing. A being so afraid to change it does nothing but stare.The embodiment of sadness and anxiety.
Waxy lips,
Purple ‘n thick
Rear view,
A devious kick
Sing-song giggles,
A soft purse
Stomach churning,
A biological curse
“How do I look baby?”
“Pretty mom,” I say
When you looked at me,
I knew we were meant to be.
You warmed my happy heart,
My young soul believed we would never part.
When we laughed at each other,
Fear.
The fastest emotion to reach the brain
to create a fight or flight reaction
Fight.
Fear causes a person to attack
to rid of whatever caused the fear.
Flight.
You think you are out there all alone, you are not meant to be alone.
Your heart is not made of stone, but your will is that of stone.
The voices inside on and on they drone, but you are alive and not a drone.
Underwater it seems
I live my life today.
There is no escape from the thoughts I call my own,
The fear, the shaking, the future unknown
My body reacts without control
There is no end in sight.
I hate
I slept and I slept, and I slept
Sinking to an insurmountable depth
Couldn’t revive or arrive for a breath
Where am I, who of me is left?
This tailspin, burnout, whatever you call it
perserverance . So I focused.
strength . So I needed faith.
tired . So I gained power.
weak . So I kept going.
push. Until I gained courage.
through. So I felt the drive.
Hidden within the crevasses on my infinite mind.
Disguised as my voice he patiently awaits,
striking only when most opportune
On days of insecurity and inferiority
only then he would come create chaos.
Something new or that one thing daily
Nobody can ever guess what the day will hold
As humans we can either stay to what we know
Something new or that one thing daily
Nobody can ever guess what the day will hold
As humans we can either stay to what we know
I dream no dream,
And fight no fight.
My real is beyond dreaming,
And my fight is to use my wings to fly.
Beware my stream of consciousness
Kill your bloated self-confidence
Like a rope around your throat
Or a .30 aimed at your noggin
This rhyme flow is undisputed
these verses go undefeated
The word "fight" never seemed to apply
I see its far more than what meets the eye
A promise made in youth that must live when youth dies
And I fight. Oh, its a front and a facade - yes, I fight!
I’m sorry...
I’m sorry I’m not the perfect girl,
and that I couldn’t be selfish for once.
I’m sorry that I am nice to a flaw,
but that is simply who I am.
I am sorry that my decisions led you to today.
Will I cower by the fire
that shines into the night?
Or venture into the darkness
and look my fear in the eyes?
If I just give up,
If I just give in,
If I just lay down and cry,
I feel it begin, the drip drop of the rain,
The ominous storm, soon to devour my soul,
My heart screams denial, it crushes my chest,
The hot rain beats down, I lose all control,
I'm not able, I'm sorry
i just want to end the call
I'm supposed to be the the Invisible Soldier
who's trusted by all and never blow his composure
and as much as i wanted to see the world better
Press start to begin
Fighter thrown into battle
Decked out in armor
It is just a game
It’s a game you want to win
Excited, you run
It’s a tragedy for those of us who stay the same
When time tries to heal, but we stand against the winds of change
Because you resist, you’ll make the same mistakes
Those are the choices of us living not in love but hate
Pretty bird fall away Pretty bird come and play God made us out of clay But we don’t give a shit not even a prayer of thanks We live in a world where I don’t care is the coolWe live in a world when not giving a fuck is praised Killing our broth
It's okay to have a bad day
It's okay to have a bad day after months without incident
It doesn't mean all of your hard work was for nothing
It's okay to have another day
Where the floor is lava
Listen closley head my words
for what you know is not the world
the world is better greater than this
what we've done shall'nt be dissmissed
The lion hold the gun then ends himself
You think the lord for that wonderful gift
I pray and ask him why in the world did he curse me like this
Hurt since birth feeling worthless and shit
Tryna find love got me hanging off of a cliff
So close I could almost taste it.
Yet, all along, I knew I'd be scared to face it.
The thing I'd been chasing
The one I'd been craving.
Yeah, I'm scared to face it. It's a paradox
A pandora's box
So close I could almost taste it.
Yet, all along, I knew I'd be scared to face it.
The thing I'd been chasing
The one I'd been craving.
Yeah, I'm scared to face it. It's a paradox
A pandora's box
When I'm knocked to the ground by his punch,
When I'm overwhelmed by the damage he has caused to my body,
When my breathing is shallow and my training is fading,
My beloved is like Jonah;
He's been in the belly of the Beast.
Once the whale had thought him dinner,
Jonah was quickly freed.
My beloved is like Matthew;
Imprisoned, though not to blame.
My family doesn't like you.
They judge from what they hear.
But I know you better,
Now let me make this clear:
You're my husband and constant companion.
You're my family, and my friend.
The dark it smells like charcoal,
the fear it holds me inside assassinates the sanity
breakdown the senses of pride
the emptiness it has me tight within the grip
I am not saying I’m suicidal,I think I just get tired easily,It’s always a battle of survival,To fight to live a life successfully,
A dark abyss swallows my soulLonely and cold, out of controlI push and I pushInside, always breakingNever forgetting, Never forsakingA smile, simpleIt hides my fear
Struggling to survive in bondage to the queen of Egypt. As slaves do we render unto her a taxation of our time, possessions and even our lives. Her vain satisfaction has caused pollution in our oxygen.
I am the ocean. So deep. You couldn’t possibly see everything inside of me. And why would you want to? It’s dangerous. It’s dark. You can’t breathe. I try to pull you inside because I want to feel closer to you.
You first introduced yourself when I thought I lost everything. You told me I didn't need them, that they were holding me back. Now, it's you holding me back.
You first introduced yourself when I thought I lost everything. You told me I didn't need them, that they were holding me back. Now, it's you holding me back.
I wonder if you know that I love you
With all of my broken, twisted love,
With all of the love you threw back at me,
And all the indifference you used to drown me.
I fight the love you give me;
He sat in a corner, all hunched up and scared.
His eyes red and streaming from his cloudy mind.
His jeans ripped just as his cheek is;
His hair mangled just as his shirt is.
January 29, 2018
Dear all those who love me,
It sits there menacingly, waiting
It’s come back around, and it’s ready for a fight
I’ve prepared my armor…my guns
Dear Colored People,
Colored or not! We are people and should be treated as so.
Colored or not! I still have to take on the many challenges that come within a day.
Each breath I feel the army wanting to
push the barricade
I swallow so much saliva it washes back
the front line back into the sea from which they arose
They are fighters, no matter how hard I
Dear Death,
We are Strong!
Yes, broken, but Strong.
We have seen you near and far
And getting closer, so it seems.
Yet this time our encounter
Won't be more than just a banter.
How could she not understand
The pain she is causing her children
She believes that my father will take all of us
And he isn't holding us captive its our choice
On this day I wore red
A color so beautiful and bold
I did it to be ahead
And hopefully it will have him sold
He, however, wore blue
Dear,AFFLICTION
I’m GLOWING UP and GROWING UP.
That may upset most, and make many envy.
Some may say “oh she’s acting new” or “she think she pretty”
Never that honey.
Honestly, this has always been there.
If only you knew the lengths I would go to be able to tell you how much I love you.
Or the amount of pain I would endure to spend another night falling asleep in your arms.
I count to ten and i'm calm but I swear it's all in slow motion.
One..
Her yelling echos through my head over and over, everything she has ever said to make me feel, worthless.
Two…
Look to the line of morality.
Your mentality, lost from actuality
Where my red hand stands in a land you don’t understand
And you try to reprimand me? Listen, I demand!
Perhaps I am reticent, hesitant
The angry skies on a sleepless night,
Rolling thunder, flashes of light,
A tireless battle midst roiling clouds.
A quick parry, a sudden thrust,
Their booming voices,
A cut across the wrist
Cuz who would miss this?
A cut along the thigh
So much easier to hide
Keeping it all hush hush
A cut across the wrist
Cuz who would miss this?
A cut along the thigh
So much easier to hide
Keeping it all hush hush
The overwhelming exhale as I awake from a nightmare, those endless encounters with the fear of isolation, only drives me to become a more compelling individual who's mind is yet to be freed from torment and confusion. 'Expect the unexpected' the c
to the world that has made me hate you and that taught me to love you, you, my dear skin.
my skin is my name, my skin is my attitude, my skin is my personality, my skin is me but IT’S NOT.
I'm sorry I woke you
You used to say I could.
You crossed your fingers, nodded your head, like I knew you always would.
You whisper sweet words of decit, as you look into my eyes
Can you hear me now?
As I call out into the silence
shattering the illusion of peace
only to refill the space with
the weeping of the mourning,
and groaning of the dead,
the screaming of the innocent
I don't want you to think it's over
This is just the beginning
Let repetition kill the potency
Of the demons’ chant “we’re winning”
Listen just one more time
keep my g silent like lasagna
creep slow stay in the shadows call me it
but i aint no clown wont catch me laughing
i keep my pockets swollen like they just got done working out
inner strength
those are the words
rarely appreciated, seen, or heard.
the strength is like a light, the fragrance of the sun
shining at its best
working all as one.
one light on its own,
You minipulate me
made your aesthetic to be that of a devil's
I guess its my fault
Ive always been known to be a devil's advocate
You say you love me
Emotions.
Pain. It hurts, it hurts. Make it stop. Please, make it stop.
Family. Together. Happiness found with each other. Good.
Fighting.
Why do we fight?
Guns, drugs, sex, and more.
These are the things that make you a whore.
At least that’s what society has taught me, of course,
about things I don’t deal with, things that seem Morse.
Today I am trapped in echoing halls
filled with the smokey darkness.
Unable to see what good lies await.
I can't hear anything besides the calling
the voices of creatures and monsters
Why should I slit my wrists and die,
When you already broke my heart and made me cry
You don't have any right to come back for me
How about you go die
You've done so much damage,
You ruined my life
Once upon a time,
No.
Let’s flash forward.
This is the real story.
North China constantly
In life when situations are thrown at you there are two options
To fight or flight
To stand and fight for things in your life
My sisters name is Ariel, I am sure you all know her.
She has such a soft heart and I've seen her conquer.
We live in the ocean and she fell in love.
She ran away to go live up above.
(For the sake of privacy purposes all names have been changed)
"Every single detail in this story is true and happened in a way that makes me who I am now"
His hands are cold strings of light
Mesmerized eyes with dark ash at sunrise
Kisses that take more than give
Mixed with a man's after shave and swear
Warm underneath dearly painted lies
In a world built by the blood, sweat, and tears of people who look like meFrom the fields to front officesFrom the streets to street prophetsThey look at us and still see the whips and chainsThey owned us
Looking up at the stars
feeling the grass on feet
tears in eyes
blood in the street.
The wind is howling,
the birds all scream,
at the horrendous crimes
that the media eats.
A w a v e to a stranger
despite their shore
may capture a smile
through times of war.
Running
for
The same song
Sung by people who wouldn't want you
To hate yourself
The same song
Sung by people who wouldn't want you
To hurt yourself
I felt the moist air Kiss my cheek As all of my limbs Grew so very weak
Looking around Watching flowers die In the meadow Where I lie
There are no monsters in the closet--
Not yet.
Because the fangs of friends have yet to be sharpened
School is a land of heroes and misfits
We took a step back, I think.
Interpret how you will,
but I will interpret this year as thorns
we have placed in our own fingertips
preventing ourselves from moving
and pretending we have been brushed
We fight to win we fight to win
We close our eyes
We stop our ears
We shout to shout
Not to convince or tell a truth
We fight to win we fight to win
From the vibrations of my screams
to caper-colored bruises
you denied me to be all women, a
Woman in passion
Woman in tears
Woman with smiles
Woman and proud.
Sitting in the dark
Listening to them yell
I watch from the stairs
This is my hell
Am I the reason?
That they always fight
What did I do?
That causes this every night
Can you, for sure, say that you are alright?
I, with utter ease, can say no I’m not.
I am like a porcelain doll, fragile,
I am easy to break, easy to bend, helpless
This is it, we have won.
But in reality, the battle has just begun.
My brothers and sisters, together we stood tall.
But as the fight continues, we must promise to never fall.
We camp in glory, we camp at peace.
I saw fateful stars,
Not twinkling with lullaby dust,
But searing, scorching, bright
with meteoric impact.
I stumbled into black,
a murky, messy plight
of blurry edges, hollow words.
Standing Rock, so brave and free.
It seems the rest of the world, they don't see, the police aren't here to protect you and me.
My presence may not be felt there, but my mind travels far.
Just keep my mind inside my head
We’ll be us both inside my bed
I’ve got to keep my life instead
Of staying in my lonely head
As leader you have to protect,not to neglect for everything that comes your way.
As a leader you have to listen to the information.
For your nation.
As leader you should express yourself
As the fire grows, and you take the blows, the real fight begins.
Shots coming for the outside and within.
The city crumples and the shouts ring clear, all hope begins to disappear.
One doesn't have to know
for one to understand
They just have to listen
and be there to hold your hand
It's not too complicated
to show them that you care
Treat them with respect
though some few years since Bending Toward Justice storied treatise hot off the pressriveting, nauseating, disquieting wanton venomous unfairness, tremendous
We fall we get back up
We crawl we learn to walk
We sing we let out sorrow
We revolt we change the outcome
Life is more than a hungry stomach and hearing gun shots on the corner of the block. Life is more than a fatherless home and family abandonment.
It's too bad I'm not a mas-o-chisttie me down like i asked-for-this
I'm screamingI'm strandedAbdicatedAbandoned
No. Free. Will.
I always feel like an enemy.Fear not says my family.I'm a victim, And i will forever be.Why man have power over us?why they forever right?why they use us?I say no to man power.
Beep, Beep, Beep
Waking from another Sleep
Pitter-Patter, Teeth-Chatter as I scramble out of the bed
By a secret whisperer I am led
I am not disillusioned by no means
As I rise from my future dreams
to test limits and defy explanation
to tread murky waters and not look back
to sour higher and higher and be able to look down
to concure fear with a flick of the wrist
to try
My mama told me that I belong in the world.
Now I never took her word for it,
For I never met a man who belonged.
Not really.
Not truly.
We are all struggling to get somewhere.
I can’t breathe
I can’t see
Feeling so lost
No light to guide me
I have fallen
Fallen deeper into the grave
I can’t escape
From this pain
You can take my wings
Fire burning
Through my veins,
Hold on, get a grip...
Grab the reins.
Pull back...
Ignore the attack.
Breathe--
inhale...exhale
Ignore the air,
I know it's stale.
Why must I speak?
Whenever I do, conflict ensues.
Words are spat into each other's faces,
False accusations in all places,
As I helplessly watch.
I apologize yet again,
Rock means nothing anymore,
every artist a corperate whore.
The gig is fucking twenty quid,
policed by bullies in high viz.
Organisers think its grand,
snatching money from your hand.
It is delicious and sweet,
So simple to enjoy,
When not having to worry about a thing.
For me that's not the case.
I love food, at least I did
But the relationship is on and off.
I am a mother of two. I have nothing, but innovation and imagination. I promised myself as a kid that I would abberate myself from the norm.
With a pen I write
To attack the demons that come at night
no matter how weak I might
I will not relent from the fight
Though I refrain a Frown
By the Darkness I'm found
Though I hide
The Pain Won't Subside
With nowhere to run
I fight an agonized cry
Until I have won
her words struck me like lightning.
passion and strength erupted from her booming voice.
it was beautiful and terrifying all at once.
In the shadows
in the shade
when the hope of past things fade
forget the past
forget the pain
when all is lost, it's not you, you try to save
it's brothers,friends, sisters,family
Strength is about determinationthe power one has when things get toughFighting through the frustrationand remembering that life can be rough
A hand
desperately craved
twisting and stretching
pulling my strings
Now, in this new land
To sense I’m enslaved
Don't yell at me.
It no longer works.
The damage is done.
I have been broken.
I care no more.
This game is wicked.
I will not stay.
Why must you damage?
I've always looked at life like a fight
ignoring that it might be one
I might not win
subduing the chaos
and guiding it into being okay
like a plant's tendrils
Darling, something is wrong
All day has been bitter words
It seems our conversations have turned insolent
I only asked for something from the heart
Afloat in the body of an endless sea
Drenched suffocating as the shores no sight to me
Fight to be loved
Loving to fight
The night holds me tight when I struggle for light
Blood in the eyes of a sun that cries
we're dead while living.
we're living
but not breathing
we were alive
before being born,
we grow without growing
we see without seeing
we hear
but not everything
we know
You have no idea how badly i hurt, how much pain i endure when my anxieties and fears pulse through my blood…
How easy it seems to just let them out, it only costs an inch of flesh…
The fight is strong
The will is weak
We want the same
We want a leader to rise up
We want the war to stop
We see no where to hide
The fight will not stop
We are killed
We are stereotyped
Save me
No save you,
Harm in help,
Help in harm,
Hate is charm,
Joy is pain,
Wild is tame,
Life is death,
Death is free,
But do not,
Save me,
I choose,
I open my eyes to another Hell
As I’m pulled into another restless dream.
I fight the demons though my fears swell
I fight through their torture and schemes.
I’m blinded by an explosion
Pain brings the saddest days or the happiest moments
Pain of sacrifice is more bueatiful then a childs pain turned into a starlit lotus
If you lose pain you lose focus
In your mommy’s world
You were always her little girl.
Quiet nights hands were lurking,
Brother’s cold hands froze you in the night.
You can't take the good without the badYou can't be happy without experiencing sadConstantly fighting a battle with good and evilAlways running back and forth, two sides never equal
- I will leave this Earth by wrestling the Sun
If I am to be destroyed.
build up my grandeur higher than the tallest mountaintops.
Let Zeus himself look up and marvel at my glory.
Ink-smudged hands betray me
Proof that I'm still fighting
My thoughts can be rambunctious
I don't quite know where I am
Depression creeps into the pores of my skin. It carries weight and all it does is makes me want to sleep.
It burries me into a hole that is very deep. No one understands what I am going through. No one understands me.
Seventeen means
I’m too young
It means I’m on the bottom rung
It means I’m just a kid
Who needs to keep a lid
On her beliefs
Because it might cause someone some grief
To know
My hands shake, my knees tremble
The words I say barely come out as a whipser
The people look at me like im insane
And maybe I am
Maybe I am because the words I speak are not normal
"Feminism" is taking over, and wow, they have a point.
Men can do what women do and women do as men.
But is it really feminism...
When we tell a girl that she ought to wear pants
Can you imagine this world that wakes up right before our eyes
The trees shake, the sun shines, and the grass never dies
I hear the bang of the gun
I rush to my tent
I am all alone, scared
But ready to fight
I grab my gun and run to the line
You think you're in control? You think you can get to me?
Well you're wrong. You may hurt me on my inside, but I'm a sheild on the outside.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.
LIES!
Why must we sustain ourselves and reframe ourselves to bes the perfect image of what others defines as perfect?
(A.K.A 'Question')Why praise God, onlyto curse & challenge His namewhen a trial comes?
I'm on the verge
Can't you feel the energy surge
I'm almost there
So beware
25,000 points seemed out of sight
But I scored it with all my might
And that's right
It was a very hard fight!
Judge me by my voice.
Silence overlaps my words.
See my eyes glisten with tears.
Though I am bone dry from heart to toe.
You feel my power in my fist.
But I
STOP!
And leave your eye in tact.
Are you ready to see what hides behind the curtain? Can you handle something so uncertain? All you can hear is laughter from her lips, and see a shadow moving her hips. Are you ready to pull the curtain? Are you ready for the uncertain?
Stifling sounds of a chair colliding with the adjacent wall send vibrations throughout my room.
"small lips", "big nose", "pale face",
"big eyes", "small thighs", "fat in the wrong place",
"awkward", "strange", "too shy",
but "dont let them get to you", "dont you cry"
smile, smile, smile.
Sometimes I just look at you wondering how the world treats you, and what's going on inside your head.
Won't you hold me tight
In the middle of the night
Don't turn on the light
Hold me with all your might
You know it ain't right
If we have a fight
That seems to be my plight
But your out of sight!
In an operation, surgeons pull away the skin.
Their patient is a stranger.
Every organ, muscle, and bone is known to them.
Doctors dig inside their patients physical walls,
No one sees and no one can find
What I hide beneath this facade of mine
Constantly wanting for what cannot be
Constantly wishing for a better school,
A better life,
And better friends
Breath
your head is still above water
Shh, no reason to cry
the monsters can't get you anymore
Scream
that's right,
Yell
anything, just don't fall victim
you're stronger now
This world is a place of darkness,
What was once wrong is now right.
People are cold and heartless.
Black lingers behind the brightest light.
Monsters don't even hide in the shadows,
Why is it a chore to stay alive,
Why do we laugh when we want to cry,
Why do we hide behind a mask,
The riddles that ring,like the telephones from now and the pastThe dialing of the words that spin in a continuous circle, they always lastAnd when you answerYou want to know why they called
I don't want to look in the mirror and see failure anymore.
I don't want to wish away my shadow.
I want to think of my reflection as beautiful.
Darkness circles the area of the box I'm in!
Them, they only see me standing there in glory, open space, with a smile as bright as sin,
Embrace My Love.
Inhale my Spirit and Immerse My Soul.
Let My life Explode Into Amillion Pieces.
Let My Pain be Consoled.
Drown In My Sins Until Evil Releases.
As I am a Dove As for you Is A Crane.
You know they say gay marriage is not happening !
But if you wear two of the same socks or shoes. Then you matching it.
In if you wear two different colors then you mixmatchin.
Do you know what that emptiness feels like Inside?
When Knots in your Stomach Ties.
Do you know what it feels like when your smile hides?
Do you know what the coner feels likes when theres no one behind?
We were two minds into oneYour fight was mineMy tears shed through your eyesWe believed that our strings would never be cutUntil I shredded it to peices and walked away
Colors begin to fade.
Hands begin to lose feeling from the tight grip.
The walls begin to cave.
Clothes are being ripped.
Theres no light just shade.
The room begins to spin.
Tears roll down her face.
I wish I was special, But Im Just Different.
I wish I Was A Gift, But im just a Present.
I Wish I was a Blessin, But Im Just blessed.
I wish I could Fly, But instead I can Walk.
We are trapped,
We are lost,
We need to get out,
But we do not know where we are,
We are slaves to the rich,
Lets get on the piss,
Lets charge the gates of gold,
Lets break te chains,
You've move on now and I respect you
I will never come between the 2 .
But when I said I Love You I commited my heart to you.
My souls crys for you .
My heart whispers to you.
If you could Place your arms on someone for the last time, would you just hold me?
If you could walk anywhere in the world you wanted, would you walk out my life?
Tell me something
I want to hear —
like
She
is still here
in our world
laughing
with that tigress grin
an infectious echo
of character and grace
I live in the darkness
I can hear the blades get sharpened
i am cold and wet
All i have is this carpet, which i use as a blanket
I do what i'm told and my stomach is still flat
I was a broken child from a broken home,
But now im Becoming A women being put back together.
Im Not Alone, I Walk With My Dreams And Live With My Fears,
A piece of meat cornered by beasts, lured into the trap, and now you're their feast.
They don't kill you, but eat you alive. They like it better when you fight.
Happy were the days when I played with my brother
Then all of a sudden, we got called in one after the other.
We sat down, him with my sister and me with my mother.
Confused and slightly nauseous, she told me the news.
That's when cracks form
Tiny fissures
Twined throughout
The whole relationship
Invisible to the naked eye
Until a moment of impact
Crashes in
And everything shatters.
Just like lightening you struck me without warning,
We were two missing puzzles who became whole
You build your own shrine in my heart and saw it burning,
We were like milk and cereal in a bowl
"Why me?"
She sits in the corner of her room
Crying and
Slowly dying
"Is it even worth it?"
Should she end it?
I don't understand why we are the way we are,
Most of this generation's cares belong to money and cars,
What happened to all the kindness, respect and laughs,
All we distribute is violence, hatred, jabs.
I think it's about time for the change to be birthed. It's about damn time for the truth to be heard. It is about that time for the tables to be turned. A second where all the lies will finally be burned.
I know that I have problemsI know it's not your fault.And that on every wound you ever hadI poured on saltI always say forgive meBut I never really change
last night I threw words I knewwould burrow themselves insideyour chestand set fire to your ribcagejust to watch you burnand I’m sorry;I don’t mean to be so cruelwhen I holdso much good.
There were so many sleepless nights,
days where you'd lie in bed, and hardly even bother to see the light.
You couldn't find a reason, but you were just broken.
They label us an “entitled generation,”
Saying we only want what we want and want what we think we deserve.
What we think we’ve earned
What we think others have earned for us.
I try to live my life as you see fit
To be the person you want me to be and not who I desire to be
My heart yearns for freedom my unspoken words dig into my flesh
The battle's raging,
A war in my head.
Shot's have been fired,
My feelings all dead.
I sound the alarm
and call for retreat.
But its too late for that,
As I've already been beat.
I miss the days where we could be carefree. No bills. No anger of any real sort. No stress. No money to worry about managing. But that was a world we lived in as children. Young and unaware of the World's true colors.
It's bleeding time
The lost soldier
Burried in the midst of the fight
Death among the living
Damned when we are young
Stung by what we hold so dear
Where will you go when you die?
Sneakers, gym shoes, my father call them gymmies. Nikes, Jordans, Jays ; I love them
Its funny;
I sit on the edge overlooking the hedge,
Asking myself if this will be the last night;
Dancing around the topic that's in everybody's mind
We dance with death,
We flirt with disaster
A desperate question, asked by a friend
Five simple words- “Have you set a date?”
My heart quickened my mind raced
Did you know that queries could be daggers?
We live in a world where no one is accepted
It’s 2014 and nothing much has changed
Society is way harsher now than it was in 1960
1960 was the time where everyone accepted each other for who they were
You can never be betterYou will never do betterYou don't deserve betterThat's what I tell myself everydayI look in the mirrorDisgusted with my appearanceFull of regret from the decisions I've made
When it's gotten so hardThat you scream upon deathTo take you away from this miserable placeAnd you cry because no one can even noticeThat your crumbling insideThat your shattering into pieces
When we first said hello, I grinned from the side of the door.
You looked at me sedated and when you lifted your hand
The decisions she's made lurk behind her like a predator and it's preyShe's never known where she belongedShe's never known what to sayHer voice weak in the crowdsShe cannot speakShe cannot be heard
I dont have a dream, i have a reality
i wont let it be taken away from me
because you found some fucking technicality
My grades arent perfect, this i'll will admit
but ill work my ass off to make the puzzle fit
These words are in my head
Shouting, begging to be released.
They have slowed but never ceased,
Weighing me down like lead.
I try to keep them inside
Tucked away in the dusty corners
Life is unfair
The adults all preach it
But it takes so long for you to believe it
You ride the waves
Until the board breaks
We all wear a mask
Only taking it off at dusk
When the society can see you in darkness
You pretend you know what is happiness
Ignorant of pain,agony and blasphemy
Hiding the reality
How could you easily let go
the one thing you said you love
without a protest
without a fight
and leave it there broken
walking away.
You say it hurt you to release your grasp
Fight to stay alive, fight to keep the boiling blood in my veins, fight to keep myself moving in this messd up place we call our world. To fight will take endurance, to fight will take skill that only a few of us possess.
The pain of my unspoken mind
The bitterness of my unspoken truth
The chains of my exasperating fears
The loss of my god forsaken youth
My heart lies beneath my honest intentions
I got people looking up to meBut I'm just not that heroic.It's like I'm living a double life,I promise you don't even know it, Cause I don't even show itAnd I don't even flow it
Bold Dark presenceWreaks its havocAmongst the people,Poison’d human Morality,Degraded by Brutality,Guarded from Equality,Caged by harmful Mentality.
Life itself, Is our biggest challenge,
yet our best competitor, which makes us unbalanced
As children, Were born with “life” as our Inspiration
Adversity what does that word even mean
Does anyone know?
I think the last man to feel it
I give my all
My dreams are my youth
Take them away from me
I’m a T-shirt, shorts, and shoes.
And you know damn well that I’m gonna fight,
Because when it comes to my dreams
When it comes to my life,
Can He still feeel the nails dig in?
Each time I fall and just give in
To evey lie? To evey sin?
If you are a real christian you will love everyone, for love is the greatest commandment of all,Hatred causes arguments, but love overlooks all wrongs.
Rain equals Grain, retain pain, reveal your burn, the shadows win, you may duel with the devil, make sure you win
Launch me into the atmosphere,
So I can float among the stars.Sail me across the ocean,
She cries softly,
Tears drive down her cheek.
Hopelessness fills her body greatly,
And she fears the next encounter.
How shall she escape,
The sky is broken
and I wish I could know why
because right now it feels
like the only one who will understand.
There used to be flowers on or fingertips
but they wilt with every word.
We always look down instead of looking up.
We always say no when we can say yes.
We always kiss when we can hug.
We always walk when we can run.
We always stand there when we can do something about this.
Why must we always question authority?
Obviously we should back down,
We're simply the minority.
I'll tell you why we stand and fight,
Why we won't give up the shiny crown,
crescents
digging in my palms
crimson on porcelain
buzzing in my ears
buzzing all around
burning in my eyes
screaming in my head
copper on my tongue
fire in my throat
Because of history, I am seen as nothing more then a figure to be worn on the side of a man.
Take hold of the darkness, step into the light
Let go of your worries, dont give up the fight,
Each day is a balance of the good and the bad,
For a moment of joy you must also feel sad.
Take hold of the darkness, step into the light
Let go of your worries, dont give up the fight,
Each day is a balance of the good and the bad,
For a moment of joy you must also feel sad.
Take hold of the darkness, step into the light
Let go of your worries, dont give up the fight,
Each day is a balance of the good and the bad,
For a moment of joy you must also feel sad.
Passive verbs will do just fine
Unless of course, you wish to be kind
Original characters are just great
Unless of course, they arrive too late
Use my names, or two, or three
Unless of course, they belong to me
A kiss is just a kiss
Until you find the one you love,
A hug is just a hug
Until you find the one you're always thinking of.
A dream is just a dream
Until it comes true,
Love was just a word
Oh sun, Oh sun
How he does rise
To watch the cheerful play,
See him illuminate the skies,
And hide before each day,
Oh sun, oh sun
What warmth he brings,
To ever leaf and flower,
They don’t wanna see me with you, they say I can do better
But what do they know?
Tellin me how to feel and how to love
At the end of the day nobody knows about this but US
Why stand alone when the battle is nearly won
Why stand alone eventho the odds are against your will
Riding for miles, Your perfect smiles,
Silent conversations, Innocent flirtations,
The hot, sunny days, They passed me in a daze,
Mindless texts, Not knowing what comes next,
Sometimes we disagree,
But that’s okay.
To be perfectly honest,
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
You’re always there,
You’ve helped me grow,
And you always know what to say,
Lips, pierced, lined but swollen. Eyes narrowed, but your content was stolen. Purple outlines, slits along my jaw, like nails they scrape but my eyes, they call.
Don't leave.
Just don't.
Stay close to me.
Be patient and gentle,
then you'll see.
Get to know me.
I have layers upon layers
of thought spent on who I am.
There's contradictions.
" You little brat"
I wouldn't believe you,
I had no reason to.
"That's what you are a brat!"
It was just a little mess,
just clothes on the floor.
"you don't care about anything except your self."
The lonely angel with a broken wing
Knows all the pain that truely stings.
He remembers ever face that's passed his eyes,
He must keep living while everyone dies.
My heart is hot like fire
My head is drumming hard
As I climb the mountain higher
I realize that I'm far
I push myself forward
because my body is weak
But I am climbing towrds
Pain.It strikes quicklyalmost unnoticedalmost unfelt.It settles in stages-A fear, a sadness,you shiver, you shakeyou feel the heart quakecrumblethe feeling sinks in
I crawled out of my grave. I stare with red rimmed eyes in shock as the emotions and truth rape my brain. I gasp and swim with the stars as my eyes swim in tears full of epiphanies.
Follow-~>
The woman in blackWho looks for her child.
<~- Retreat
To the safety of homeWhen the child is found
Open-~>
The book of spellsAnd wait till nine
<~-Close
I walk among the childrenSome young and some oldLike the oak tree in myGrandfather’s house.
The wind ruffles the leaves.It is a foggy fall night.Im not alone.At least I tell myself I’m not.
School is torture
This I can not be more sure
The teachers like vultures
Misery they ensure
When the bell rings
They act like kings
Barking out commands
That every student withstands
Da Dom Da Dom Da Dom (heart beat)Before I knew of his mistake I’d already condemned himEven as he tried to explain I scolded him for action he never madeRazor held high I went in for the killHe’d never hurt another
A Letter to you my black women,
Do not let your curves define you.
Your thick lips, circular behind
curved hips, kinky hair
be your primary worth.
Realize you are not only your astounding exterior
I one was as a-rottin' As you'd think a man could be I spent my days a-loadin' My 1873
I had no wife to watch me I'd lost her years ago As for my one and only son He had no fights to own
Ridiculous
the way you all try
to tell us that
tests will define us
align us
along your lines
which we
are not allowed to cross.
Ridiculous
the way that they tell
a fight,starts slow,anger ignites it,screams,anything to say what we mean,settles,then ignites again,the words spill out,the worst thing you've ever said,it hits her like a ton of bricks,you win,she cres,you try to apoligize,yet she still cries,sh
I find myself torn,
not real sure which way to turn.
Who to believe,
or what to think.
Should I trust my feelings,
or should I stick to logic?
This is becoming too much,
I can see, but I am blind.
I can hear, though I am deaf.
I can speak, yet I am mute.
I find myself wandering, like a spirit,
Walking the same path over.
I cannot tell if a dream has taken me
Love thy name
Why not love it?
It is special
Love thy name
Was is it not sent from above?
It matches the beautiful person
Love thy name
Could you be with you without it?
I wrote a hundred poems
About you, for you, to you,
But you never realized
Did you?
Those words were not just words
They were physical pieces
Of a priceless heart
A paper and ink home
God made the perfect creation when he made womenSo elegant, charming with their smiles
I knew where I was headed,
Lost in thought, nose in a book:
Dragons, fairies, elves and sugar plum days.
Every thought, every move.
Shelter disdainful epiphanies behind latched heart
For pity to sneakily evaporate
And emotions grow painfully tart
To mediate the dormant desire into blossomed state.
Drag Restless on her knees;
All alone in a sea of despair
Until I realized I have the Sun
A sun I never realized was there
In a world full of darkness
there is always a light
The longer we linger, the harder the fight
I died last night
Gave my best
Took all my strength
But I still lost the fight
Fought for our love with all of my might
But all my dreams came crashing down
Heart ripped out my chest
I write because I never could throw a punch.
I never could run fast enough jump high enough or beat you in sports at recess,
But I could run circles around your head with unparalleled linguistic prowess.
I spoke daggers,
Clockwork heart.
Wind it up
and off it goes.
Don't get too close,
or it might explode.
Dormant, it lies,
therefore unscathed.
It one was new,
pure, whole, expectant.
I still don’t understand why you left,maybe I never will
The confusion is crippling,I keep going downhill
My mind is cloudy,like I’m mentally ill
Why can’t I stop my thoughts,I need a sleeping pill
Escaping from it's place some time ago,
no direction - searching for an unknown soul.
In need of comfort, another person who's unclear.
Looking and looking, and the time comes near.
Negritude…
A conceptual ideology in the tenets of humanity
A construed solidarity in a common black identity
Abstruse in such arcane a concept?
Fight through the pain now
Don't give in to the night.
Take your last breath while standing
Let strength be your fight.
(chorus)
Lock-down 'cuz we're loesing ground
And when work is done,This poem has left me...My soul refreshed,AnewI feel cleansed.
The tears roll down from his eyes
and are blown away in whispers
By the wind
This Man
I do not know him
He cries in an agony
I cannot see
He is alone beside me
Pride;
It’s often seen as someone who loves attention.
People see it as someone who evokes nonsense.
Power;
The first thought that comes to mind is control;
Those with power are accused of always controlling.
Oh happiness, take me upon your wings
fly me above and away
take me farther than my dreams
on the dawn of breaking day
I left that dark room, speechless.
I was scared
to death, for what I saw
was real.
Brainwash of the masses.
Abuse of power.
Slaughter.
But laying in hell,
you can only look up.
Watch an eagle spread wings like silk
Untouchable purity against a night sky
Until the hunter (some would call him Destiny!) takes aim
See the king of the air turned to game
Trotting through the hot narrow alley, rifle on my back.
My companion to my left: Richard, I think.
The sound of gunfire boiling in the distance.
Morning light blazing into mine eyesA ray of hope to my sleepless nightsMy soul cascaded across the skiesNaked before His light all too brightYou and I had broke all tiesBut just to let you know, I am alright
Never in ones life would they think their own life would be cut short,
But for one girl, she found out that it was her who would soon abort.
It was 1989, and she was just going in for a check up,
Moonshine floods the curtain lace and bathes the room in colors of soft serenity.
At the sound of the tone please release emotions.........(beep)
IM A CRYBABY
*Ring Ring* "Wassup bae" "nothing".......................(30 minutes of silence)
IM A BRAT
To love is to feel pain. To love means giving your whole heart to someone else. It's a tricky thing, unexplainable and sometimes unreasonable. It makes you vulnerable and leaves you wanting more of it.
Ahhh ! I cant sleep. my eyes pry open, my mouth screams leave me be, ive been done wrong, done wrong and it's hard to be me. every thought is ruined by one person, that one person that told me i could never be successful in life.
It is my innate right
A thing I will
Never give to you
Why must the demons feel
Such strong lust
To control it
To destroy it
Without a fight
Nobody
Should ever give that up
A family member gone.
Not even able to understand why you were so cold.
Trapped in my sorrow, these words were the only way to go.
You left me without warning, how could you go?
Little boy who claims to know love
Manipulates visions of rose petals and doves
Your words fill my mind with images to relate
False happiness comes with the lies you create
Oh you confused little boy
She was the lightning that danced across his night skies. He was her rock when her waves broke on the shores. She was the rock he broke himself against. She was the mystery he couldn't quite solve.
You left me
You were once Mine
Once
Your hold, your lips, all mine
Once
I remember the sleepless nights we spent together
creating passion, solving problems
My story may not be long but it's a good read.
Carelessly flipping through the pages?
You might miss something.
The young girl who was filled with joy who's trust in people went void.
After all the years, a knot once tied
Has fallen loose in mid-stride,
Holes revealed that before were hidden,
By this intricate knot of ribbon,
Smiling faces covering watering eyes
Snap, Pop, Crack!
There goes an elbow with one firm grasp.
La la la watching those tears mixed in,
Is water, blood, and all the hope
plus determination flowing from that corpse
War is declared
On all of you, who hurt
Others; leaving none spared.
You seem to use all effort
To leave them despaired
And, lacking comfort.
Of the darkness
emerging from
our souls, beyond
threshold of
the black mire
falling
headfirst
into the pits
dying, our souls
Clank!
Number five.
My sisters and I count each clank into the trash can, growing more uneasy with each one
We usually don’t get very scared until number eight, that’s when he starts to fuss
(poems go here)
There once was a man named Ted,
Who decided one night to look under the bed.
What he saw, it seemed,
Really made him scream.
And now, he has no head.
As the sun fades away
The sky turns to gray
O' dear, I can only say,
"See you tomorrow morning star"
We look back in time
To where we had our best and worst times
Wish we had a time machine
The gym is my Tabernacle,
A place I long for, a place I seek.
A safe haven from all the daily disgust.
The gym is a war against my muscles, A place my sprit is freed,
Brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers,
Blood spilt on foreign soil,
Yet in safety far across the sea,
You mock the sacrifice for liberty.
You have a castle for a mind and those flags
They don't bear enough welcome
Put your drawbridge down
We won't all hurt you how some have
Call off the guards and stone walls
Sometimes I feel swarmed
Sometimes I feel alone
I get up each and everday
I go to school
I go to work
I eat
I go to bed
But
Sometimes I feel alone
Don’t run from your troubles,
As life takes you by,
It will only cause pain,
As if fire creeped inside,
Burning your desire to say the truth,
Afraid of the effect it will have on you,
Tear the tree down
As the ecosystem frowns
Just so some smuck
gets to wear the mangrove crown
One day natures going to fight back
But what you lack
Is the ability to comprehend
As I lay awake in bed at night
My secrets haunt me, devil’s delight
Though invisible, they’re plain in sight
Stenciled images in black and white
They scream and wail, unending fight
I was always taught never seem weak
Always act strong
To always fake that smile
And laugh like nothings wrong
But right now I think about those hard times I got through
The sun rose red above the trees
As light spread across the field
Cropping up across the land
The shadows reluctant to yeild
A man stands guard surveying,
Watching out for morning's light,
When morning light cracks, my skull rattles to ear-piercing bebop saxophone
Prize-fighter in the corner, crave the bell, you pitbull,
crushed ankles will likely give out, useless things
The change it blows,
across the sky.
The wind it grows,
as seasons die.
Heralding might,
with each new dawn.
Winning the fight,
through guise of calm.
Like an object at rest I remained
Although a force was acting upon me
There was no reaction of mine
To the change that had happened
What a strange phenomenum of science I was
I didn't react when I should have
I awaken to red and blue lights
The paramedics have arrived,
Pain in my head like after those late nights
I am thinking I should have died.
And then silence.
his voice is raised
you can almost hear
her cringe, he’s too far
gone too many a drink
her back against the kitchen sink
her arms are raised
his voice now crazed
Never again do I want to see such pain and hurt in her eyes,
But time after time I look for and wait to hear her cry.
She says there’s no one who can save her, but I have to try.
Suppressed filling of anger, stirred with every word.
Tension builds, as the mind registers one thing; GO.
Hands rise, thundering, BOOM, BOOM following one another as though a synchronized explosion.
You are hurting her,
more than you know.
Cuz she won't admit it
Her feelings won't show.
You lacerate her,
stroke after stroke
then you kiss that bitch
she's been broken.
Finding beauty in negative spaces
Can be a trying test of your sanity
But walking by, are a million faces
Every one with a sense of vanity
Finding beauty in negative spaces
Can be a trying test of your sanity
But walking by, are a million faces
Every one with a sense of vanity
Not liking the first I start a new page
Realizing that life only sucks when
You are no longer playing center stage
I think maybe we should try this again
Anger is built up in me so!
So much that my heart
Is hurting to break
The bones and organs and soul
Of a fool who believes themself so bad.
They think they are hard and right
Back when I was a ballerina
I turned and twirled
With leotards and pink tutus.
I sautéed.
I plied.
I turned and went the wrong way on stage
And provided plenty of laughs for my family.
I was a pumpkin
…once
Grown and harvested in the richest soil
My flesh could have fed
My seeds could have rooted
My life could have been meaningful
But instead of enriching the potential I had,
Industrial Revolution
Builds on her the loneliest right.
Liberty has occupation,
Though she's victim of Mans' old rite.
Let’s Go Back!!
Let’s Go Back, back in time, where we began to rhyme
Singing hymns to kill times, of inequality,
let’s go back where we loved each other
while marching for justice
It would’ve been an honor to be a Freedom Rider
To be able to fulfill my desire
To sacrifice my life for a change
For the exchange
Of a better tomorrow
I have the right to school
I have the right to live my way
You have no say
I have the right to speak
Thats my rule
To live everyday
I have rights
I am stricken with the paint of bigots,
Cast in the colors they throw on me.
I am mulatto, all coffee and cream.
But when I am looked at, not seen, but looked at,
Sweat and blood cradle it,
It’s the mothers old hands that
Wove its breath.
High above myself and earth,
I can see freedom slowly drifting
Across towering mountains and dark
Clouds.
Separate
Has never been
And never will be
Equal.
Paging through the textbooks of history and time
The white, clean pages
Have been bleached of any color.
Black history relegated
Blinking sweat from his eyes,
His heart is on the verge of defunct,
Light irises face his.
Wild with fear,
His stomach solidifies like rime.
Hey there, pretty lady.
That’s who I am tonight, Pretty Lady.
Pretty Lady this morning
Pretty Lady after this crap job
Pretty Lady now
Had a sporadic moment of brilliance today
This extra-terrestrial brown skin
Bronzed with historical significance
Scarred with repetitive adversity
It isn’t coming off
Music thearapy for my body and soul
More room for the new, sayonara to the old
Same me, but wiser and bold
often portrayed as heartless and cold
my emotions are opposite of Django, chained and controlled
Capture the past
I'll let it live
Very loud, asking for forgiveness
Ignite a passion for history
Let you beat me like I beat you
We all have door with a lock but no key
We all have our secrets, our past, our deeds
We've seen the ups and we've seen the downs
We've seen our loved ones placed in the ground
We've been scared and scarred
It all goes black
Your world has collapsed
The wall u built has fallen
No time to look back
Find the memories
Find the money
Find the kids
What of the dog
To live or to die
You don’t know what I’m talking about
You don’t know what I want
You don’t have the ability to read my mind
dear 1960's:
wish i couldve been there.
inagurated john f kennedy
killed marilyn monroe
martin luther king speech
veitnam war.
cuban missile crisis
first walmart
john f kennedy assasinated
Steal from me. Poke fun at me. Follow me...whatever. Deep down I know inside my own self is better. You broke me. You scorned me. Over time I learned to adore me. It takes time and it takes courage but in the end I it has been worth it.
Each fight we have, tears me down,
Of your standard, I've fallen short.
Barely hanging on with pain,
Can't you see that we're the same?
