This journal required me to step out of my comfort zone and give credence to the originality of its merit. I have always stood by my creed that the mind is a terrible thing to squander, and the heart is an organ that requires the gift of love.

My...

In this day and age, yes, mankind is the only destroyer from the food we eat (Death Merchants) to the manmade poisons we digest for medical elements, to the propaganda spewing from the media that disables our brain cells from thinking on our own.

Say My Name (Songbird)
Through ice, sun, and the storms
My heart, soul, an entwined intellect laid upon my bed, to keep you warm
Channel the provocation of my sultry weather
As our bodies blend and harmonize together
Allow your mental flow to...

Bedroom convos uttered in my ears,

like Trey's songs playing in slow motion,

echoing no split in musical openness,

making the air around me moist.

Bearing the body wrapped in its petals,

I watered the rose that confined ...

Heaven sent,

on a hell bent, ready,

set, 2b free,

is the key to this mystery

To unlock the emancipation in the

That is the everyday struggle,

Buried amongst generational rubble

Unkept, yet kept guessing what, know how?

He loves hard to

keep in touch

with her soft side.

“Let me rephrase

that for my

misbehaved mind.”

He loves deeply to

keep in touch

with her soul.

“That doesn’t make

it better, I know.”

That’s where ...

Convince pain not to hurt, tell fire not to burn, teach a snake not to bite, and show a gifted child how not to learn. Only then will I consider listening to advice on how to forget.

God has a mysterious way of determining who lives and who dies. I endure the pain with my cries, while asking why. But isn't this God’s world? I understand and yet I remain confused. The human in me rejoices for life, for death, I refuse. God’...

Black man, black man

know your roots

Black man, black man

know your truths

Shovel your melanin

find the beauties in you

For it’s okay if your first

journey has been recluse

You’ve got a whole

Kingdom marching in lieu

How de...

If I haven’t told you

I love you enough,

then enough is enough.

I’m removing u

from the word

so I’d say it as much.

Who ever knew such

a verb can be so

re-noun, so up front.

A refusal to be in

the back of the line, a

refusal...

My charming Yoruba Goddess, this is not Heaven, this is not Earth, this is my superiority, and I rule with grit and grim
To keep lost mortals submissive throughout the ages of time

Unto me, I give unto you the storms and the soft whispers s...

There’s a hush beneath the moment, a slant inside the hemisphere

An unbalance slowly folding though no one knows, but its loud to ears, to eyes, crystal clear

A quiet kind of teeter, a sway without a sound

The circle starts its breaking while...

before I entered the sacred room
sounds of symphony strings
harps
violins
Brazilian guitars strumming
before I entered the sacred room
pedals of roses strewn across my path
leading to the great door
slightly ajar the end of the archway
to...

All the lights in the sky

Can you believe that they all will just die?

We are cursed and blessed with this…

As our own light will too be extinguished

Somehow you and I were wished into existence!

I don’t know how, but for a moment, ...

Let's burn a candle,

one for each time we've kissed.

Let's look into each flicker

and watch while our love wicks.

Don't wince, as every moment

won't be easy to gaze upon.

Like nights turn to days

each light will be...

Salty memories

heightened emotions

tearing her eye line

before contact with arid lips.

Her snivels were blips

like lost words

longing for a pen

and I called her Diary.

She scribed with me,

everything that wasn't

My mind is flacking,

thoughts heavy on my shoulder.

The weight is bearing,

and my posture is leaning over.

I'm bent on the meaning of this,

teetering trying to stay straight.

I haven't been right since you left,

a...

Miss me often,

like each day's

trade for night.

Watch me settle down,

still here,

but in a different light.

Make me feel dreamy,

losing me in your space

only to find me still your love.

Keep me needing you,

as if we shared one hear...