went swimming in my crown
almost drowned the weight
on top of my head pulling me down
countles...

you don't have to do anything to anyone for them to hurt you
sometimes the one who hurts you th...

I can't stand out looking for a handout

hungry hoping someone feeds me

I can't cry from bei...

it's a long walk going nowhere

why fuss over having nothing to wear

they'll tell you its ov...

when I see my reflection
I gain a sudden impulse
to reach in and snatch myself
to safety witho...

See as of late...

My mind been in a dark place..

Wondering if I should test Mark's fate....

An...

With tongues like ripe fruits

Hanging on the limb of truth,

Let us raise the veil o...

Sadly,

We often try

To make truth

The child of our

Subjective desires…

every thing is good until the light start blinking indicating it's about to go out alluding to th...

Sand storms ...rising…

Sliding from the futures…

Surrounding presence…

Rushi...

See lots of gifted young writers

posting on the vibe

let not your thirst for writing

b denied

It speaks in expressions only I can comprehend,

I listen as it tells me how to follow my soul ...

It speaks in expressions only I can comprehend,

I listen as it tells me how to follow my soul ...

Damn this Brutha got me gone
Like something I’ve never known
I’m stoned!
Thatââ...

Four hundred years, yet still a misnomer

More centuries are there than have been spons...

Thoughts—desires of mind…

Truth—reality that is;

Be aware of both…

Ideology—...

Sitting here on the dock

Of the bay of mind

With my feet hanging

In the waters o...

As I look in her eyes her feelings she hides

So my shell hardens cause I can't get inside

I...

As I write my inspiration grows

The deepest I write from the pain of my lows

Mindsets we ch...

Finally a day that belongs

to me

No appointments no one

to see

Got them there bills taken

ca...

You tube has this my saga song for the haters and the friends who love to tell me Im Lucky a line...

Curse the day you left eyesight

Pieces inside fractured like scattered jig saw puzzle unsolved

We are the children

of the God

of the oppressed

who has pulled us

from the bo...

My mind been running
My heart is listening
To the inner voices that lives
Inside my head

I ...

only that which we have

not yet learned is what

we do not know…

droned minds...

I love you. What is it that you love about me?. The questions would continue until he understood ...

Were

That we, were not

Cast adrift

Our mortal souls

Spinning

Wildly

Out of control

With ...

Can you hear it...

In the falling...

Rain...

The dust laden atmosphere

Saturated with ...

Way back in the day folks

would say shacking or they say

my ole lady or my ole man

today the w...

Too too much fun

with this BS in life

Cameras have not seen

the stuff Ive done

40 hours is killing me
yet, without it kills me too.
I don’t know what to do,
Do you?
Giving ...

00

It’s an enigma…

Taking this leap of faith…

An exciting escape …fro...

Arachnid…

Spinning tales

Of countless encounters

Somehow, you’ve survived…

Potential ...

If you chose to walk a straight road less obstacles shall come your way.

If you walk in circles ...

Holiday season so dont let those lookin down their twitching noses Joneses get you down by the Mi...

I poured myself a drink last night.

I never like to drink alone.

Rum for my broken soul

I used to be a prodigy everyone was proud of me the spotlight was on me it was the top it was lon...

looking at all the bottles

images in the mirror

sounds all around

tears start to fall

trying to get these thoughts out

sitting in the house wishing to be

thought about missing you

feelings of being locked in spaces trying to get out of there so many times in life I turned from...

A

Cry …of Love…

To the most high

Is heard

…

We are the clockwork

Of wondrous d...

Get High

Snort endorphins

nose bleeding

due to high altitude

Alter your attitude

G...

My beloved dream is losing steam
Teeter-tottering
Faltering on the balance beam
I yearn for it...

I read your mind the other day

Didn't know if you had noticed

I think that the thoughts of he...

Free to be an angel of words

Raining down wisdom or sorrows, or joy, or happiness or pain

Eit...

sitting on the Subway

heard a homeless man say to his mate

"people will be kind because it'...

I feel a breeze and it's not even cold outside yet people say they freezing but don't know what i...

Return to sender don't need help to remember things that made me sad glad I got past wish I never...

I’m in love with myself
Got some improving to do
I’m in love with myself
When I'm split in two...

I told him

That he could

Have a taste.

He cleaned the plate

Then,

Got back in line...

I was heartbroken but I was faking it. I knew we were in the death spiral and love was trying to ...

It was your fantasy It was real to me I was in the scene It was your dream Had someone told me d...

I have memoreis of the good and the bad

I have memories of when I wassad

I have memories as...

I AM not a product of my environment.

Rather a duplicate of my mentality.

We are what we th...

Another winter’s here

Colds and flus,fluid inner ear

Congestion, sore throat, bad cough

I wish I was brave enough to live off grid,

I’d allow myself to be swallowed up by the green o...

I am searching for the light surrounded in darkness

a different path beside between a rock and ...

There once was a man who had an idea So he planted a seed from that seed Grew a fruitful tree m...

I have been writing poetry for some time now but Im still wet behind the ears. Im experience life...

I write from a place of hopeless and despair

I hope I’m not there long

My trails of getting...

Did you ever sit down to

write a song

one that will take

all night long

then if that ...

The irony of “Black Lives Matter”

lies in it being an ideological truth

rather than...

pimping & tricking our liberation…

zip lining life

and roller coasting

the struggle

1. Prologue: Pondering

There was once a time when holidays

Were devoted to sacred...

The sun came out today

but kept back his heat;

the wind remained at rest

but let...

So many road signs between us so many exits away wish I could see you everyday waking up to a...

I’m looking I’m looking
looking to have a mature conversation
I hope you ready
I’m sorry I mad...

As friends become more the closer you get

The friend zone I'll break to show you I'm next

G...

Sitting on porch stoop
looking up at dim yellow
street lights

Young girls pig tails
sway in...

You came to me
like a violet mist,
As the leaves hustled and kissed.
I heard your song,
In a ...

wanna give you all my time How can I when half the time times not mine to give when Everything ha...

you'll find me on the dock down by the Lakeshore listening to songs I don't wish to hear no mor...

Leaves leaving the trees

at internet speed

Doing what Fall season do

make them fall

A...

Balance, Balance, the yin and the yang, two equal parts, different yet same, value and worth, cau...

when I was a child I didn't have poetry so I crossed my fingers to feel better about things that ...

Be not what you think you are

But who you are

Faith is conceptual belief

and like he...

Anguish heart

to spirit filled soul—

stinging pain—in need

of introspective disc...

As an incredible shadowed nation within a nation

Let us forever be aware of our unique...

Caught in the moral tradition of liberty,

America can no longer be the land

Of free...

Caught in the moral tradition of liberty,

America can no longer be the land

Of free...

INSECURITYchose me
My turn
I chose you
Trust is essential
I can only control "me"

IMPATIENCE...

heard there's a river in Egypt can't speak on where I never been useless trying to be reighteous ...