how long
before my listeners, listen?
before my believers, believe?
before my circle encloses
and we act in unity
from nucleus
just as the unambiguous seed-
still becomes the tree
with many branches
as is known
in a blind world
it takes courage to see
how long
before you are reminded by me?
Spirit
But I Choose to Live There
I found belief easiest
in the aftermath
of dearest hopes reap
but I as well,
found it most restorative
before my senses could grasp proof
that it would come to be
for what I knew
came to be
and what a thought
to know my thoughts
so powerful
and empowering
that what I will
has more than potential
to be
if I but only step
out on a ledge
What Good is Advice Nowadays?
be it not my words too empty
but defiled hearts too full and plenty
to hear of anything unhallowed
shallow be thy name which follows
Two Pictures Make a Whole
I am
an adult and child
a man and boy
gentleman and ghetto
distinguished and disturbed
poor and rich
deaf, blind, and emissary
peasant, commoner, and dignitary
slave and King
Black, and god
And on this Hill, I shall Build My Temple
I am a temple,
within a temple
my temple,
within my temple,
within a temple
aligned with my temple-
to my temple,
in my temple,
in a temple
and let it all be So, and Sacred
Wise Crisis
troubled by all that I know
overwhelmed by all there is
and still left unknown
troubled that I must disown
as soon as inherit
the two faces of a kingdom
bringing their charged expressions
to reign under one mirror
that tells two stories
one unseen
and one seen
and I am trouble
by what I don’t see that I see
and that which I see that I don’t see