And while you're at, place your thoughtsin my mindso that we can intertwine and unravel the spa...

VISION What is VISION with no blindfold, In order to see clearly you have to start with your eye...

Love is precious
Love is pure
Love is the ultimate cure
Love is what you make it in the end

Your lips speak the words of truth
Your arms wrap tight around me
when I'm down
and blue but

I was told

If I ever wanted to be the man

I would have to stack white as tall as ten master...

Dream Weathering

The sun failed to warm
my aching soul---shivering
within my inner being---...

Oh My Darling where have you been all of my life?
I've been waiting for you to someday make me y...

As I lay and reminisce
on all of the promises you
made I begin to think of
the times we would ...

entrepreneurship and dreams

diligent hands

an endeavor to build a promise land

not talking tri...

My inner perception is my connection to the world that only shows the raw reality of what living ...

If we changed souls like we changed cloths.

Would the world be so cold?

If it rained go...

For some odd reason, It's like the youth has been infested, Infected, With such a mission, As so ...

My heart is sleep deprived afraid to see the image of your beauty in my dreams

I'm lost wantin...

STEP ON UP AND SEE US SHUCK AND JIVE, PUSH THAT WATAMELLON AND FRIED CHICKEN SO FAR DOWN OUR ...

If I could title this thing that we had, I would label this chaos the tragic story of a love that...

If I could title this thing that we had, I would label this chaos the tragic story of a love that...

I'm taking chances, I'm taking risk!

I want sleepless nights and morning bliss.

I want ...

She says I left her

She feels as if I just got my things, forgot about her and neglected her

Crucified and unverified love we share,

To know you is to love you... I read all of your secrets that wasn't sacred unto me, but unto t...

Natural Woman

Hey young men have you heard?

About the natural woman on the block

Her hip...

God, do you hear me?

Are you listening too?

Sometimes when I talk to you

I feel like a f...

Ducking cook outs and fish fryes

has become an art for me

The beautiful lovable people of t...

My paintbrush is ready

Ready to use colors and lines that are forbidden to go over

But the ...

if we were only blind to color

to solemnly love thy brother

we all bleed red

this constant blo...

Unlike ancestors,

with their coffles

chaining them to ships’

bellies and bowels---they

Talk a good game

Always have an alibi

Never thinking you got caught up in your lie

See I...

My Black is Bold and Beautiful

Your Black is Bold and Beautiful.

They say our black has all...

You see this problackness surrounding me like a bubble,

Rise and shine to Welcome Glory
Blinded by plight from Daze Overcast
Broadcast news match views...

sticky humid air

content to move to the beat

blind to our defeat

like the fallen lea...

Blind is a Leader

Following dark to Delight

Until Light Shines

Seeing is believing

Out over the alluring expanse

of the Big Water---

where the sky rest upon

the water’s ed...

today i saw a break in the clouds. all praises to the Most High. nothing changed...things may eve...

The heat from our love

Radiates like the sun

I am with you and you’re with me

We are eac...

Dear Minister Farakhan:

I greet you sir

As-Salaam Alaikum

Sir

I am

admitting to yo...

When I write I am free

Through the eyes of my pen I see

A vision with beauty no blemishes

flutter and flicker, free and full, finishing first place fast and fueled, leading few and follow...

can i be light and airy and filled with sunshine? i honestly don't know. yes i can put on a show ...

shake me shake me it must be a dream a nightmare filled with ghosts and goblins and utility bills...

It happened. It all happened. And I just went numb. Defense mechanisms that wouldn't let my emoti...

Now I lay him down to me, I prayed thee Lord his soul to keep, if I should die before he wakes, I...

Last week I fell love again,

Come here baby,

My stride reduced

to the slide

of my soul

to a drag

as slow as

an old hand dan...

…She asked, “Why?” so I lied.

I gripped her hand

a little tighter,

Slipped from my posit...

When I was younger

I had a hunger

for the sweets

of hard streets.

Spent countless hours

lear...

I reassure you that

I'm not a little boy anymore

I don't need you to hold my hand

I poss...

The weather feels fine

Leaves blowing in the wind like confetti

So many hues and tones

A...

We exchanged glances on a crowded street

Nearly an impossible feat but it happened

Your sta...

The end is near, is what I feel
Life is becoming real

I dont know when ill take my last breat...

Can we just? Can we just what King?! ummmm ughhh you know.....

You know.... play out all of...

Truth,
"Subliminal", no message,
Just raw truth
That they hide behind the term
"Conspiracy!"
...

Hey beautiful you warm my heart like a hot cup of tea you melt my soul as if I was a cup of ice s...

Sometimes lost, sometimes found. i was blind than i began to see that i was even more blind then ...

Candy coated. sweet to the taste. rainbow colored smiles and brilliant radiant styles. loved by t...

STING

MY HEART FAILS ME TOO WEAK IT CRUMBLES ALONE, DESERTED, ABANDONED BY THEM ALL. EXPECTED ...

I tend to look down at these hands
Simple rough just like every other mans
Mine tell a differen...

All of a sudden, but I thought I wasn't, gon ever fall for a woman, well she wasn't just any wo...

Your deceiitful tease

and illusive behavior

are beyond compare;

your blind promise

has yet pr...

Another night in the maze I call my mind
Took a wrong turn at lovers lane
I am not sure what I ...

Your dna can be found on every poem I’ve written
The emotion spewed can be traced back to you
W...

Do you ever think of me
The way I thought of you
Was I a blade in a field of grass
Or was I yo...

Tonight
Would have been the night
I mustered the courage to tell you exactly how I feel
The en...

It's like I stumbled into your presence, tripped over my own insecurities and flaws, drifted off ...

Cast away from the stars

yes here we are

At night I look upon the stars

that shimmer so

Evasive like bigfoot

avoiding photo shoots

Not part of a group

subtle and aloof

Cant ...

Looking back in time

I could see

What a week in the life

Was like for me.

With days a...

Lingering in the spaces of time---

sitting on the muddy banks of reality---

docile souls po...

from the cocoons

of our distributions

we voyage backwards

to the womb of our beginnings

?Elbows held the chin of y sorrows

Up to the heavens

Like host on the altar---offered up

Perfection:

I’m in denial….. All these beautiful women around campus and their forcing up foul...

I flew to Africa and my heritage struck

I witnessed my heritage and my pride came out

I ove...

New Slavery:

I be damn if I find Jordan's on Payless/ I'll be a sucker if I could grab the lat...

is this the way you show your love to me
Tell me that you miss me, and just to be passed out d...

as i awaken in a world full of pain
My soul feels sorrow, for my life was over
Before it began
...

We counted down the minutes

Til the ball

Dropped...

At 10 we

Begin

At nine we

For retention

Show a smidget of attention

Detention

For whatever my desires had in mind

They both sighed

contradictory sighs

as each neared his watch

to his eyes.

Both watch...

He said
He wanted to
Taste the potency
Of my words
Spoken so
That he could savor
The flavor...

Heart made
Of tempered glass
Beating to the rhythms
Fluidly flowing with
The need to
Impart ...

Let me shape your essence and be your blessing, in all seasons and in all type of weather. It'l...

The only reason you keep her around is 'cause you feel better keeping her down.You have no reign ...

I cried...
I cried and fell down to my knees, praying against my disdain...
I prayed for clarit...

Entice me
Excite me
Ignite my senses by stimulating my mental
Whisper derogatory language
Mak...