I’ll wait for you

As long as it takes

For you to see yourself

The way I see you

Until...

You love me

Like only you can

Especially different

To a rhythm all your own

A beat on...

I hold back tears

Afraid to let them flow

Let them gush down my checks

Like waterfalls

We two had stones
Ready to cast
Sharp tongues yearning
To reap flesh
Words eagerly anticipati...

Shadows
Accompanied
The silence
Voiceless
Terrified being
Shaking with fear
Cosmic sized ra...

trouncing fields of dreams

like locusts

swarming innocent crops

in their prime

what is a cry for help
if it is not to get the attention
of someone else
what if you cry out
...

is it me or is the world going crazy
is it me or is everybody trying to kill their babies
is it...

need some gum
a stick of anger management
to hold back the flames of rage
everything is writte...

depression can't fold me
situations can't hold me
coming after every one
who robbed me
as if ...

I live within Shades of Gray
Smoke colored mirrors,
not easy to see thru or convey
The day is...

Lovers hum hymns,

Upon seas of living ether

Melodic tones, baffling

Unraveled by winds o...

juelousy is a natural thing
coveting is a different thing
if you don't like it
love it
don't ...

there are different sides to every story
some in side, some outside
some in side out
some of y...

walking across the bridge
hoping you would meet me
halfway somewhere in the middle
over the ra...

the highs up to 90
about to be 100
wanna know why it thunders
you better take a number
July 1...

a flower leaves all its pedals
where they fall
it does not reach down
pick them up and try to ...

been coming home
smelling like smoke
falling in love with fire
always smelling like soot
walk...

one time I wore a family reunion T-Shirt
didn't know not one of those people
sometimes life can...

outback by the railroad tracks
under a pile of stone
is where I hid my mothers favorite song
s...

Don't like Star Trek, but love Uhura
She never left us in a furor
Almost quit show
MLK let her...

I began to writesodesperately that I need to express it. I longed for the moment, the day, the ho...

If I could write

I would recite

Every poem from

Shakespeare, andPoe

Instead I’ll resor...

You woke upthis morning,
On the edge of a nightmare, at thebrink of today'sfears,
So I sang thi...

These rhymes ain't a fad, we been had mad gab,
Blowing up spots like they invaded Baghdad (Bush ...

hundreds of angels toppled onto a passing pink cloud

in fearful astonishment

as the marching ba...

You are a wind
Breeze of character
that comes by to dwell.
Inhabit's time together
with your ...

In the United States we supposedly have freedom with the government as dictators
telling the cit...

The word at the top says it all
From the start my heart got beat
The abuse my heart went throug...

Each and every one of us have a stairway to heaven
Yes, we can't see the stairs on Earth, but we...

Each and every one of us have a stairway to heaven
Yes, we can't see the stairs on Earth, but we...

Jesus you raised me up from a boy to man from dirt
You watched my progress overflow
I often fai...

A woman of God don't keep an angry mind because acting mad gives you notice
An woman of God don'...

Without my permission, you stole my heart...

Said it didn't matter, as it was torn apart.....

Lateinthenighttime’sheatatthestreet'scornerawomanstands,

Watchingforafastsignalofanevenst...

Around twenty-five years ago

I lost all contact with life you know.

I'd sit on my pity-pots...

Lord God I wish I were blue

Like the skies and blend in near you.

But I'm not,I am black

The story of brother Quaku is a cautionary tale, Of what not to do, and how to fail, An internshi...

raindrops and mud

god cried today;

his tears fertilized

the womb

of mother earth—

The Waning of Tides of Love

Like the ebb

and flow

of tides

to thirsty shores,

when love stopped by…

unrepentantly

love

stopped by

today

to say hello

agai...

simple thoughts on true love…

true love

does not betray

the flesh

nor play with t...

reaching out...

the fair chance

of it all

raises fear

chasing hope

us

check...

Dawn Dream Awakening

The jasmine scented air

gently caressed

the night

as foam creste...

BLACK SWAN IN THE SPRING OF LOVE

There is an itching in my heart

I cannot scratch—

A...

a love supreme...

laboring through the trials

of day

and the weeping pains

of nig...

Love sonata

Oh how I would love

to write poems of flaming

love—singing songs stingi...

Love Is And Will Always Be: Look At You And Me!

Trying to stand still

In a moving world

The Showing

(Apropos an Exhibition of the Times)

The hand of time paints

Upon the ca...

Pushing Up Hope

Though we walk wearily

through the valley of death,

the roaring rede...

omg…

bombs—dark clouds

of death—once again

rain down blood

upon peace

wallowin...

Just Moseying Along...

In the fullness

of time

the empty scales

of justice

crave b...

in the cisterns of mud…

not indigenous

nor aboriginal

yet

a claimed national

r...

The Last Supper of Hope

Grief has exhausted itself

And pain has abandoned the heart;

The Last Supper of Hope

Grief has exhausted itself

And pain has abandoned the heart;

Shame On Us

For us, much beauty

of nature is denied;

not by being taken away;

but...

From Then To Now

(A Saga of Life Shared)

El Campo—rural ground

in a Nightingale nigh...

GOP pretends 2 care about #Benghazi
Pursue Hillary like Paparazzi
If no run 4 POTUS
They would...

I may be slippin' thru time

But I gotta thank my God

For all of the times He's kept me

From th...

At DTW Delta Terminal 71, Is a classical pianist second to none, Playing, "I don't get around mu...

Part 2 Was Me Sharing a Tragic Event In My Life..

Even If I Went Back In Time I Couldn't Make It...

#NFL ballers chose 2 take a knee
The sentiment looks good to me
But what comes next?
Hood is s...

Roses are red,
Violet's a hue,
Love is strange,
I have no clue,

What's in people's hearts,
...

I guess love is like magic
Never think twice from
Protecting your heart from tragic

Wh...

gonna rain? he asks himself

naw he says to himself

though seeing the new moon intermittently co...

The harm of mediocrity

Keep following we

From city to city

Keeps measuring me

With everyth...

Chicago hit a huge milestone
But this one will make you groan
500 killed
Such a bitter pill
T...

Hello America,

First, let me acknowledge your presence…

Remind you of my last days as presi...

I Will Not Lie

I promised you
the power over sin
I will not lie
A covenant of promise I made ...

In the forest of beginnings and endings

Grows the power and right of life

Innocently await...

We never heard of Monica Lewinsky
Until Bill Clinton opened the door
Invited the intern to drop...

Daddy issues

Dear daddy
I don't know if I'm angry with you
Or angry with the situation I can't...

Love is like orange juice,when you don't have it, you want and see the use, so you grab it, pursu...

Black folks selling their homes gottaremember one thing,
The only things somewhites love black a...

Take me away

To a faraway place

Make me forget that the world outside of us exist

Hug an...

I’m not going to beg

I’m not going to plead

I’m going to let you be

Your true intentions...

A motherispregnant,butisstillunsureofwhattodo,

“It'snotmychild!”saysthefather,nowshe...

Toanything,person,andplaceinmylife,andinmystory,

Inpast,present,andfuturetimes,itallgavemedays...

Thepast:Yesterdaywasahistoryofmemoriesbirthed,

Thepresent:Todayisamomentinthetimetolive,

Th...

How many times can we say to someone
"You melt my heart with your smile"
Of course they do.
Bu...

Every year when the time is right
The leaves
They fall peacefully in
But never out of sight.
...

I can draw out

The map of a woman

That of

Including her body

Her heart

Her flesh

A f***ing ...

This particular flower, holds so many thorns

As if screaming behold thy pain

Such a carnati...

Detroit is an embattled city
Very little money in the kitty
Bishop Wayne Johnson
He tried to c...