broken bonds and unbreakable bondage
Evolving Dream
Give a Beat · "Evolving Dream" by Russell Wardlow A once hoped for, and seemingly…
I Am U
I am black, I am white, I am brown, I am yellow, I am mixed,…
One last time
If I could just talk to herone last timeif I could just hear her voiceone…
Projection Deflection
If a person stands in their truth, they are seeking attention. If self diagnosed, they…
Riding the Emotional Hump
I’m inconsistent insufferable overbearing and insensitive at times I say I’m passionate but I may…
Rapped Tight Prose Verse
I’m tired of living this life I’m tired of living this life I had to…
Neurotic
I do NOT have it all together. I don’t know why nobody gets that. I’ve…
Friendliest Foes
Agreement often times creates ignorance and blindness it’s in the face of opposition that we…
Belly of the Beast
Deception, the etymology of her dialect she sang like sirens luring me blissfully into my…
Avarice Society
Why is it so hard for us to create healthy changes to our perception, thinking…
Fighting Odds
If the faculties I possess, which help me to identify my emotions and react with…
Peeping Through My Window Part 4
“Peeping through my Window pt 4” I’m a boy. From 2007, I left my group…
Peeping Through My Window Part 3
“Peeping thru my Window pt 3” I’m a boy. Relationships, where do I even start…
Peeping Through My Window Part 2
“Peeping through my Window pt 2” I’m a boy. We all gotta grow up sometime…
Peeping Through My Window Part 1
“Peeping through my Window Pt 1” I’m a boy. We have this patriarchal society that…
Pressure
Ran from too many lectures and pressures, back pressed to the fire exit doors Jump…
You Don’t Know How I Feel
You don’t know how I feeel …inside you don’t know how I feel …inside you…
E=MC^2
Life is your economy fueled by energy, empathy and economics on this journey the car…
Missed Fortune
When I was stuck, you was just a phase when I only saw myself, you…
Made for two
I said I miss herI heard she missed me tooimpossible bullseye;feeling kiddishdays you missed being…
Attracted to you
Full and luscious lips-cherry black as her African rootsdefined necklinegraced from a symmetrical jawlineconnecting a…
Your Love
I feed your love cuz I need your love I breath your love I bleed…
Mind Your Heart
How much can the heart bear? you can’t answer that with mind’s logic only heart’s…
Better if I Say it
Gotta get used to talking about myself if I want the world to know me…
No middle
I only feel when I’m threatened or stressed I have to go thru something to…
Cultural Wardlow
I’m a cultural war I’m a culture at war I’m a casualty of war I’m…
Grew up, I’m-prisoned
I grew up mother incarcerated father deceased I grew up as a foster child and…
Space
This space is made for me made for you made for two I’m made for…
P.O.W.E.R.
When it comes to matters of power, the human in us is first reluctant- That’s…
White Knights
The effects of colonialism in this country have not dissipated. The crippling clutches of capitalism…
Plucked Flowers
We’re all plucked flowers paying attention to the surface while the reality beneath is of…
Amygdala, Prefrontal Cortex Wars
I’m overly stimulated yet numb if I get overstimulated, I’m numb prefer to be over…
Errday my birthday
I die so much daily living to reflect on the happening the next day surprised…
Entrapped
There’s never enough timewhen time is all you needthinking back,time and time againI’ve noticed,that time…
Need you to need me
I just want to feel useful like I need it I have this bottomless desire…
I’m off
I don’t feel good or normal unless something is wrong “what’s wrong?” ME! “huh?” what…
Chance
There you are looking so much better up close- than I imagined from a distance,…
Wonder-full
I’ve finally noticed sometimes it’s best to be really measured in your Who, What and…
Cost to Change
Money!That is the barometer of changeThose who have it vs those whom don’tThose that have…
Paint Poems
I paint moments and put them in poetrycuz if I rapped it most would attack…
Pros’ Poems
Don’t walk away from medon’t build a fortressand forestour fortuneforcingour forfeitforgive me for myinformal forumsforages…
Real Paradise
Within our SPIRITS Flowing throughout our bodies Which we can express thru our hearts and…
Fight or Flight Fright Night
You fight or flight change I fight or flight for change Though my fright of…
Color’dBlind
Stop saying you don’t see my color You are NOT colorblind Nobody is Why would…
Black Lives Matter?
It’s hard to remind black people That their lives matter So when it comes to…
My Mom is Harriett Tubman
She created her own underground railroadalluding abusive persecutionsacrificing dark man for sonescaping the enslavement of…
This isn’t Over
This is a callfor more to be invited This isn’t justa moment of excitement This…
Crash Dummy Love
I’m your experimentingesting your placebosyour punching bagabsorbing ever blowyour pinatawaiting for you to break medon’t…
Heads Up
If you love mejust knowthat I haven’t learned how to love myself yetbut I’m overly…
What’s Enough
She looks at mehoping I’ll change my mindbut I’m imprisonedshe’s chasing timeI’ve stopped wasting timeHer…
Fell for What
Scream when you fallbut on the way downscream out why you fellwas it a free…
Newfoundland
ashamedbecause I tried to be’white’at my best momentsthen by default’black’at my worstashamedbecause I aspiredto be…
less ain’t more
we need less white antics and more white allies less white advantage and more black…
glossed over
amongst your personal sacrificesI neglected to notice your gender and cultural crisesthe weight of being…
unfractured half
my fractured relationships with womenled me to an end I blend with new beginningsmy new…
in awe
inspired most by that which makes me great’er’inspired most by that which compliments my naturenow…
what if
what if we grew upthen grew apartbut never knewstill consumed by that old sparkburrowed inside…
i want and so what
Move is this great goal I want to achieve, but only to connect, I genuinely…
who feels it worse
I wonderon whom is it harderwhen you watch people leavewhile you stay in prisonthen you…
reliving the worst
my friend’s mom recently was found unresponsiveshe had a heart attackhe voiced this to me…
fearful love
fear and lovethose two things can’t coexist together the way that we force them toolove…
Happy Birthday Josiah
Happy Birthday JosiahI remember your beautiful image vividly the day of your birthplace JosiahI don’t…
Our Nature
I cared for the ground she walked onI cared for the water he drank fromI…
“when life imprisons you… feel free”
I can never be a kid againif you keep being so serious-and we can never…
How to change the world
Find your inner powerto empower-self, and alldirecting your thoughtsallowing them to guide youyour speech,beliefs,and actionsmanifesting…
Grow like high hopes
You grow like high hopes fast and courageous innocent adventurous and youthful, like a blooming…
flames
I see your anger hurled at me like Molotov cocktails what a beautiful flame in…
it’s just different
I’ve heard it said before many times by many others compared to her- they felt…
apology
Take my apology for what it is knowing it will never be enough it will…
turn your back
If you turn your back on me you may also put a knife in mine…
safe distance
I don’t feel you’ll know me, if I ever tell you I don’t believe I’ll…
You’ll need more
When you sleep I hope u sleeping with the memory of me if you peep…
chivalry died cuz
Chivalry is dead because men are too intimidated by a woman with a strong voice…
doomed before birth
I was doomed, to be traumatized in the womb, with my mama’s cries in the…
each other
Why fight each other, as others I fight for others, with others we are more…
charged to the game
He wanna change his life but he can’tcuz this just what it is he addicted…
misogyny
Womanoh, womanwherefore art thouhow can your mystery be solved?why do I believe that you are…
Out the Blue, True Friend, True Sister, True Angel
I started believing in myself cuz u believed in meand if u believe in itthen…
energy never dies
Opposites, no..compliments attractrepelling and compellinglife is solust is so solove is soooo compellingenergy attracts energyunited,…
Valentine’s Day 2020
here we areon this one day of lovewhich I believe is ironybecause since knowing youevery…
Self Love
Your past says not to trust him you’ve seen a halo under horns but u…
Your Way
You never know what ain’t enough, til it ain’t enough you never know that pain…
compromise
love, hatepush, pullfight, rungive, takehurt, healup, downsilence…scream!trying to find a balancebetween you and metrying to…
Drowning
I can’t swim maybe you’ve mastered doggy paddling for a moment but with a speed-like…
My Two Sons
My two sons are so beautiful but my past is so ugly tho my future…
Suspense
For what she knew of me not lie, nor truth but wonder because I knew…
Loveland
As I promised escape she accepted my offer breaking her former chains she breathlessly ran…
Alien
You never knew me how could you? I didn’t.. I was never drawn to you…
Wondered
Twinkle twinkle lonely star I wonder… if alone are you still hot enough to warm…
Lost Feels
Why does my hand go thru you every time I try to, touch why do…
Paralysis
Some days I think I fell and must’ve bust my head- I see stars never…
Professing
I wish I could find the time, to tell u that I love u somehow…
Love Challenge
Truth or Dare? Love somehow has always been hard to receive, and only selectively given…
Bruh, I Get It
True story I listened offering my heart translated through words presence and attentiveness watching as…
Believe Me You
Believe Me You the surface is see thru some things you just need to see…
Dreams
I used to have dreams… I’m out of my mind now you call me crazy…
It’s How You Say It
People act like certain people can’t understand things if you don’t just tell them straight…
Russel
Russell who are you? what does that even mean, who am I? Answering that question…