Tell them about me?
Sometimes I writes poems to time travel
Brainstorm, dabble, peel back the layers and unravel
5am at the airport reading and writing to myself
About big and little things, famine in Darfur, my mental health
Jokes, dreams, and history, maybe one day my daughter will read it
Faults of hers that I share, yet still criticize more than I should - so be it
Please do as I say, not as I may be
I see the little girl that I once knew, and a young woman before me
Light years ahead of me, in wit and creativity
With the eyes and grin of her mother, so lucky are we
Days seem like hours, leaves on your family tree
I just read a poem that I wrote about you when you were just three
I mused about you and your family living in the next century!... |
Am I just a hair wiser?
Gray hairs are...
Like grains of sand falling in a hourglass
When they appear
Marking the passage of time
Predictable, yet surprising
Never quite sure where they will appear
Or even when they will show up
Like some type of 'Body Bingo', and my face is the ‘Free Space’
They don’t lay down or blend in, do they?
No, the stick out, no matter mustache, eyebrow, inner nose, or outer ear
‘Bingo’! I got five in a row!
It was not there yesterday - B12
Or even this morning! - I17
Look at this one, it’s half brown and half grey - N33
Rolling down a pile of other gray hairs - G47
Proof that another moment has passed - O55!
And I have lived…
Taken up space
Created, loved, praised, learned, listened, read, laughed
And perhaps, now am I just... |
Monopoly
Turns out those old American dreams
Were just nightmares, it seems
Strange what ‘democracy’ brings
To our huddles masses
Races, parties, and classes
Just like the game of Monopoly, do you recall?
Rolls of the dice and that one player who manages to own it all!
The utilities, railroads, properties, and apartments, while your money always gets spent
On jail, fines, insurance, repairs, and expensive rent!
Hoping to just pass ‘go’, avoid taxes, trade or make another deal
But you're never in control, can’t even enjoy the game, because it all just feels so real!
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Why all the angst and regret?
Reality is nonsense
It feels like January 6th
But somehow we’re all Mike Pence!
But they ain’t storming the capital (no, no)
The government and media are spewing lies instead of reporting what’s factual…
Firing federal workers and teachers?
Fans in the stands threatening athletes from the bleachers?
'Shut up and dribble,' but you call yourselves fans?
You called him a (again), so he rushed up into the stands!
You 5’8” dummy, he’s a foot taller than you!
Your neck’s in his hands and you can’t breathe, so now what you gonna do?
We're in the age, when misplaced rage just might get your a$$ kicked!
All that money and security is just an illusion, my conclusion, just don’t be a !
Why in the hell are y’all so upset? (Anyway)
Your ancestors weren&rs... |
Life.time.water.waves.sand.one
Notice… how time moves in waves
Like water at the beach
Slow, until the sand shifts
That soothing spritz
Tickles your feet sink as the water retreats
As it always has done
You are already one
With both the water and the sand
Understand?
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appreciate all of the lessons yet to be learned
The mistakes that you make today may seem heavy
But when you take time to relax and are ready
To understand the ways that this lesson will assist
Your future perspective, I guarantee that you won’t want to miss
The chance to appreciate all of the lessons yet to be learned
Do what I say, not what I do, your current error is no reason for concern
You like me, tend to overthink things and are way too hard on yourself
I hope this wisdom that I’m sharing with you today will be beneficial toward your heath
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Tell me this is real?
Tell me this is real?
Not a dream or the truth, but how you feel
All our time and history can’t be fiction!
Memories together just a plot or description
Of a cruel author’s pen
Characters doomed to paradise or hell, may all depend
If I’m awake or asleep, but I only care
If you’re really real and I’m actually there.
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They turned ‘DEI’ back into ‘DIE’
When there’s no there there, what should you do?
When love, friendship, goods and services aren’t equally exchanged, you already knew!
After 1865, our ancestors couldn’t get a fair wage or a loan
Without chances and opportunities, they made a way on their own!
Before the invention of the phone
Until their black Wall Streets and churches were burned
They said to hell with other cheeks being turned
American governments and businesses discourage diversity, equity and inclusion because…
Honestly, I don’t even care to know what the oppressor thinks or does
They turned ‘DEI’ back into ‘DIE’
Because black, brown, and red bodies are just fossil fuel for America’s engine
Centuries of Native America bones and nightmares
Misspelled in cities and states as brazen dares
Slave labor... |
For real, for real, for real, for real?
For real, for real, for real, for real?
That’s the cost for just one single pill?!
A new house will cost you over half a mill?
$300 for a summer month electric bill?
Don’t even think about the lifetime price of a thousand fast food ‘value’ meals!?
$5,000 for a set of braces
$300 for an analog wrist watch faces
A dozen dollars for a dozen eggs?
$200 for my daughters braids?
$50k for a brand new car?
$50 for some drinks at the bar?
All of those streaming services set me back a grip!
$6,000 for a family trip?
$60k for a year of tuition?
You need $50 dollars to go with this slip of permission?
For real, for real, for real, for real?
Gas cost me $60 dollars today, just to fill up my tank?
The ATM charged my three dollars just to pull some money from my bank? |
See you when the light’s bright!
I’m so apoplectic, I'm overcome with anger
With the last inauguration, my nation became a stranger
Presidential pardons, billionaires bending backs and knees
Cryptocurrency and AI, inflation will drive up the price of eggs and cheese
The middle class is last, replacing omelets with corn flakes and water
My mother and wife’s past was brighter, compared to the dim future of my only daughter
Trying to make heads from tails, but my conscience asks why bother?
Wild fires burn in California, as snow falls in Louisiana
Used to be a fan of Nelly and Snoop, but I deleted Doggy Style and Country Grammar
Up is down, wrong is right
Our sticks and stones are useless, as America challenges us to a automatic rifle fight!
So we’re hibernating for the next 4 years, see you when the light’s bright!
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