Like clock work, Sugar Man rang the door bell at exactly 8 AM. TiBow reluctantly pulled himself ...

I am handled with kid’s gloves

at the end of ten foot poles

as if I plot to stab your heart...

Every poem tells a story, every story tells a tale; A tale of a life, a life of living hell.
Why...

Every poem tells a story, every story tells a tale; A tale of a life, a life of living hell.
Why...

I’m sorry, but it is not for you, that I live
Hence the reason for this apology, I now give
The...

Excuse me sir,

Why must you weight me down?

With your lies, neglect,

and hand-me-down lo...

(Aright before anyone reads this please know that this is not about anyone at all, as much as I w...

If I closed my eyes and tried to comprehend what you were saying, I don’t believe that I would be...

I was great today because I woke up and believed I could be. I was powerful when yesterday I was ...

when I'm alone

with my thoughts

I dream of you

Different from them

Guys

that read ...

Acting violent to the cause won't do , and raising hands to the LAW only get us hit,so we get mor...

Faced with the unpredictability of possibilities that wild lilies can turn into red roses. And th...

So many fears beyond these tears we've cried. hidden beliefs in white lies. Told out of love, but...

Having hatred in my heart, faced with the dilemma to let it show
Still had love for her, what wa...

She told me, you're so sweet, there is no equal
This was the second time around, called it the s...

Swimming in a pool of love, my joy comes from up above;

Words without faces, and no limit to g...

They told me hate was over there

They said that we must fight it

They said no time for a de...

Can your mind go on even without time?

Do your words linger longer with each breath in life?

Last of a dying breed, greed, felt envy still this sh*t was born in me , 80s baby drove my momma ...

Responsible I have the ability to prevent the outcome, responsive I have the means to do and act ...

Why am I dying to live if I am living to die, grew up screwed up no one gave a f**k I was cued up...

All my dad gave me was life, left me with nothing but life, never complained that I might not get...

Ther is calm in the silence of lonesomeness a chance to let loose a chance to think, it's a time ...

Darkness intrigues, me it beckons me it believes me, it percieves me, it recieves me but never de...

The Krown is what you hold you are my Queen above all others as hard as it seems I am a King with...

Searching high and low trying to do better , reverting from what I know, dying to be better , got...

I'm fighting my demons
Trying not to let them
Get the best of me
But it ain't easy
When m...

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PROLOGUE

Sagifo, sitting there in his chair, found himself in deep contemplation. Burdened b...

GIANT STEPS: WALKING WITH TRANE…

Spirits of our ancestors
Gather in the midst of my mind
...

THE FLOOD…

And it shall come to past, when I shall bring
A cloud over the earth, th...

(Apropos Our Children)

Although they go forth weeping
carrying the se...

Stressing surprised no grey hairs, traveled a long way on pay fairs, and still this world don't p...

I feel comfort in these words don't ask me why out of my soul they fly hope they are all read bef...

Up and down, life and it's turn arounds, and disappointments, 1 step forward 2 steps back, stuck ...

You leaving wish I could go too, smartenedup wish I could know too, trapped myself on the way to ...

My regrets run deep like debnts I collect, I only reliv my darkest moments I can see no way, I ca...

Misplaced hate, directedtoward those not intended victims circumstanstial casulties, I am so infl...

The seasons, good and evil, the reasons, Gods plans, hands guiding me for all the teachers that l...

All I know is writing all I do is grind, I got to get it, gotta work if I wanna shine, hard hustl...

Why make it seem difficult, when it’s as simple as this
Can’t change a Ninja, caus...

Funny how when you look for love,you're usually looking in the wrong place
And when you really f...

A dancer in a show

a singer

A actress in a drama

a dream and a dreamer

Across the sta...

some are products of

adult passionate love making

some are products of

innocence taken

on t...

When you think of being in love

my face should pop inyour mind

Visions of happiness, should...

You used to love me.

You used to kiss my lips with so much passion…at times I thought that you...

Is this what you wanted?

Seeing me broken must have been your goal, your wish…more or less a d...

Long time, no see!

Why haven't you holla'd at me?

So you been busy.

Me?

Oh, I've been...

I want to know the you

that has not been introduced to anyone else.

I'm talking about the y...

Give me sunshine.

Don't give me rain.

Give me lovin'.

Don't give me pain.

I ain't no ...

You say you in love,

but you're really in lust.

Jaded by your past.

Still givin' out you...

You grow.

Secrets inside.

Let out hurt for the best.

For whom?

Your temple trusted in...

In mystic maze of dungeon,

life etches pain deep

in the womb of mind. Light

taunts the d...

To be black and asked to write
colorless verses,
is to bid the sable poet
to sing strange song...

I wonder why she loves me, why her love hugs me, not all that handsome but could be worth a ranso...

Cant get it and no one's able to tell me, got to live it, no one else knows and that;s why they f...

My love is King you crowned me with your heart the ruler of our love your soulsings my love is Ki...

Easy It comes to me telling you what's on my mind, your like my eyes without you I can't see I am...

Thought you were a friend to me befriended me an enemy, waited for the plot to thicken you held o...

Bent over backwards for you gave you my all, everything I had inside beckoned at your every call,...

Stones skipped across my soul’s river

Some skid, some drop, God knows how far

Yet in all th...

If ever i felt a tad bit out of place or like i didn't belong.... it's today

i mean maybe i sh...

Sometimes I want to just lay and cry

In my silent despondency is where all my sorrows be layin...

What do you do when lonelyness climbs up your spine and makes you shiver

Do you give in and qu...

Displayed in the middle of the floor womanhood dripping

Waiting for you to give me a licking

in the forest of despair,
the evergreen of hope, firmly rooted,
stands in the midst of the "saw...

With the ever burning candle flame
of faith, we cuddle reeds of hope
and continue to chase
the...

(And We’re Still Together, Babe)

Growing old together,

We’ve mellowed

Like

Fine wine...

laboring through the trials of day
and the weeping pains of night---
from the quarry of life,
...

I got a fine woman for my childs mother, only if she knew how much I cared and that I do love her...

Flipping burgers for a buck, feeling stranded, I guess that's my luck, underhanded, sometimes I f...

Some one to love , one that don't judge, and if I wrong them that one don't hold a grudge, all I ...

Each day we are reborn, re-shaped and reformed, adorned we regress, in the eyes of the creator we...

Going no where fast cause in her past she is stuck
Heard her say *** love, but oh she loved to *...

Dear black men, please like me
I promise to you I'm not loud or ignorant, bossy or rude i don't ...

we do not cook the same

the food may be similar

but not taste the same

to some taste bud...

As I sit wondering, attempting to make sense of a voicemail

Heart broken, bleeding through my ...

I SPEAK

let my ink run over like pots boil

with the widows olive oil

go inside and shut ...

never recieving the real credit deserved

my pen moves so much these meta carpals are at a curve

It has been a while since I took pen to actual paper

writing down these thoughts -trying

to...

crime influence,fluent ebonics

bars that mislead the scars that still bleed

the chronic negativ...

Can you hear them?

dripping down the faces of those who mourn

blurring the vision and overc...

arthritis and money diets

lumbar support and short patience

a toll on my role in my martial rel...