Find your inner power
to empower-
self, and all
directing your thoughts
allowing them to guide you
your speech,
beliefs,
and actions
manifesting your desired path
think to do,
and become
transcend thoughtlessness
and thinking to think
thinking hopelessly,
or even hopefully-
halts your power
claim, and then enforce, your power
bury barriers
conquer trying
and become
become powerful
using more than intellect
engage your insight and imagination
engineering reflection
and harnessing foresight
use compassion as your compass
both for self,
and others
allow love-
self love
and love for all-
to ignite your passions
dare to embrace
and fly free
soaring on a knowing impulse
honing a oneness of instincts
exploring a new understanding of feeling
discovering introspective and innovative wisdoms
striving to know your authentic self
through fearlessness
courageous defying second thoughts
impulse is your soul reaching
passion is your spirit yearning
desire is your mind indulging
and love,
is your heart exploring
instincts will then be the working of all these things
demonstrating and declaring,
your highest expressions of self
living is transcending focus on worldly ways
and navigating the world in your way
using emotions as identifiers of experience
being moved by the causes in the world
that call to you
causing you to move consciously-
to do something compassionately
loving boldly
negating fearsignoring perception
deaf to judgement
fiercely standing apart
to become whole
and create wholeness-
oneness with all by example
believing one person can change the world
believing yourself, powerful enough-
To Change The World
Spirit
You’ll need more
When you sleep
I hope u sleeping with the memory of me
if you peep
I hope you thinking of the energy I bring
when you sneeze
I hope you counting every blessing on your sleeve
because you’ll need more than hope
when life and love brings you to your knees
knee deep
Tears soften solid ground
turning dirt into soil
life blossoms from pain
earth, hear me hurt
as I fall
and break into you
knee deep
in a creek
where I weep
no peep
low peak
I don’t peek
hope bleak
slurred speech
I don’t preach
no reach
soul leaves
with cold breeze
cold breeze
torn jeans
and no sleeves
knee deep
in a creek
where I weep
royal reflections
Ever since I fell
I’ve been unafraid to fail
everywhere I go-
I overcome,
I rise,
I do more than well
like ripe, lush fruits-
my potential swells
I’m a king!
unrecognized by most too blind to tell
but most comparisons pale
because Royalty,
only recognizes reflections of itself
I stand with my staff
I stand with my staff in the middle of two forces
split in half the ocean
possessed with
divine power in my body like I’m Moses
in between false prophets
and
profiteering posers
but this is where I’m pose’d ta
be, like
this is where my post is
I’m a lowly soul, playin the background like a poster
but I’m, leaning on the rock like a boulder
blessing resting on both of my shoulders
I try to hold up
like composure
temperament composes
reality, I can’t be overcome by my emotions
passion is fire in me, witness how I smolder
but I never sweat the small stuff cuz prayer catches every fall like a coaster
no apologies no mea culpa
the snake in the garden is the culprit
a cobra
my God, I made it out, I talked it out like I’m Oprah
weathered every season even okra
meditative healing like Chopra
belief running thru my chakras
back when, I ain’t have options
I was sick physically and mentally, no doctors
could read what was wrong with me, no teleprompters
people in and out my life like props
self righteous, had them propped up
interrupting me with they opinions like some pop ups
only learned right from wrong from cops cuz I never had a poppa
everybody neck inside my business like a ostrich
my heart was so black I felt gothic
I seen it all before it happened
feeling like the pilot before the crash in the cockpit
even right now I’m feeling nauseous
exhausted
fumble with the weight of my coming greatness as the topic
sacrifices come, broken love in my wake
but I can’t leave tomorrow up to chance
I been helpless too long, I’ll do anything but wait
You may not understand it
coming from a different vantage
but ima man, I’m coming of age-so I’ll manage
the cameras may pan but I won’t panic
insanity is coupled with some demons, and a deep belief most people soon abandon
vision ain’t an optical illusion
I would’ve been too distracted to see what I had if it weren’t for my seclusion
my pride took contusions
You can say I’m seeing things, see dreams are just delusions
but I’m moving in between realities like distribution
cancelled out the middle man, he was too useless
fumes from my fuse only prove what I’m pursuing
everyone has an angle, time will soon prove it
embracing every shape, even my own incongruence
grew into my own shoes, despite misled influence
groomed into a teacher but bloomed into a student
if we speaking multi culturally you know I speak it fluent
it won’t happen overnight, thank god I started years ago
but when u see it suddenly, you’ll call it lucky or a miracle
I was patient
I went thru the process
now everybody wanna tell me bout the process
speaking on my progress
but they don’t know all of my progress
so how could they properly digest
the intensity behind my mindset
if they in the blind
and haven’t realized they ain’t opened the blinds yet
I’ve already let the light in
and compared to the darkness that was there, it looks like lightening
I had my share of Poseidon falling from my eyelids
casted out to an island
but that coal pressure from confinement
helped me refine and burst out into a diamond
even thru the pain I was smiling, tho I felt bluer than violets
given the climate
that’s one hell of a alignment
black as any analogy but u only see me shining
I guess its just the right reflection caught at the right angle, or its my time and you just opened your eyes at the right timing
I’m the one jewel you’ll look back on and say priceless…
but I’m me because God’s will, so each rhyme is attached to holy consignment
living for the day to where my legacy is history’s assignment
I’m timeless
I don’t look beneath me like a giant
I don’t look beneath me like a giant
leave me to my own devices
I see poltergeists
and many guises and many guys in different disguises
despise and spite of all kinds mixed with defiance
Connectedly disconnected like Verizon
I’m sharp like a trident
I fight til my triumph
collide with a titan
so I don’t know what it means when you say you trying
just so I could journey further, I’ll push beyond resistance like a hymen
coming forth wit my demons inside me
and my conscience behind me
no mirrors, mirrors remind me
that I still can’t ever find me
feel like a vampire inside it
believe me I try to keep my sanity vise gripped
but you only hold on to those things worth holding onto, like prizes
I run from normalcy dodging like Chryslers
take heed to the blind because they see more than just eyelids
I’m living lifeless
I’m feeling like life is
fulfilling with crisis
no one is righteous
no one is right then
remember the innards of gates
the embers of hate
and what they did to your faith
succumbing to the dysfunctional family members of fate
critics dismember your name
all agendas considered til you begin to deflate
November December the same
celebrating mere moments, hello hollow days-
thank u for giving me minutes of fame
no signal but calling out timber-
my temper can’t always hang
when the temperature change
cold weather hinders the rain
glimmers of clarity, shimmered
then parody slithered and entered right into my injured yet enduring brain
I figured its pain
a symptom, system and gender of gain
numb on the surface yet my center is shame
feel like the winter, inside of me ugly, my inner is vain
but I won’t pretend to be beautiful, these are the rigors of change
I am no victim
I have the resolve of a victor
fear is evicted
u can’t fit in the picture
but I’ll pour you a pitcher, in case your image is drained
maybe you’ll get it, or maybe u can’t
I welcome the strain
I wanna get what I can’t
I battle restraint
my vivid words depicting inner symbols of deeper peace and wisdom
rekindled like memory,
deciphering details-
in dramatic paintings searching for deeper meaning between the pixels and grain
I’m just tryna behold the art inside of my frame