paradoxes, paradigms, and parachutes
Some Things Better Kept Between Two or Few…but I’ma Share this Even if it isn’t Alright with You
Hey Lauren, Thank you for your concern, your genuine reaction and heartfelt connection are always…
Leaders Lead Fulltime
and here lies the responsibility of opening doors what’s the point if you’re not there…
Misguided Astronautical Musings
unsuccessfully I chased you to Moon and back traversing zero gravity exploring parts unknown rationalizing…
Heart-filled Reminders
made to remember my record yet I forget the records written upon my heart that…
Two Pictures Make a Whole
I am an adult and child a man and boy gentleman and ghetto distinguished and…
Exchange
I will teach you life from my eyes and all I ask, is to remember…
A Reflective Letter Sent to a Friend
hmm I wonder if I have to say this or is everything existential and essential…
Stolen Identity
darkness is misunderstood it was the first light that which only knew unity. and the…
Model Set Forth
what I know is based on the example which I live how I live is…
Heart Leadership
one must follow to learn lessons of the followers so when one leads they understand…
Will and Choice
my growth doesn’t mean your growth your growth doesn’t mean I grow but we can…
Cut Outs
there are many pieces can you see the ones needing to be brought back together?
Destitute Diatribes
I dare not ask why my turmoil exists for it is I whom questions the…
Poor Choice, Poor Condition
to all who have ears to listen and eyes to bear witness sometimes poor is…
Note to Self
And I look to the Sun- Magnificent Manifestor- for it is You whom unconditionally gives…
Prodigal Apology
Dear Father I’m sorry for you know my heart where the full extent of this…
Phenomenons of Thought
there is no phenomena in cause and effect it is mere natural law a phenomenon…
All Things Come to Crossroads
how long will I take this indignity… if the cost is too great than what…
What is Reason, for the Selfish Mind?
the selfish irony of receiving counsel on patience and setbacks from a lifer was lost…
Reflective Rhyme Schemes
I used to see tragedies as God’s way of getting back at me maybe because…
and Still
that which I thought I was I am unbecoming my thoughts exactly I am unbecoming…
Pros of a Liberated Con-Science
we can’t let the moments that they define be the moments that we decide message…
What A Sight
appeal is such a task a veil is but a mask and as paint peels…
Figure of Speech (Free-verse)
I am the definition of an acrobatic radical versatile as my vertebrae vertical verses reverse…
The Angels and I We made Promise Rings out of Halos
I rose up. married to my destiny I counted the blessings of my success’ dreaded…
A Mortal Man Dies with his Dependencies
the story of the generations which will exceed us, is of different origins and points…
Prison, is a Place for Ghosts?!
pt. 1 prison is a place I go to often in my mind jogged in…
Calling out all Demons
I call on my ancestors, so that I may have faith in them, to speak…
Book Worm
is the apple bad because it a worm was found or is the apple already…
A King, has Returned
do not the poles of the earth bring about the equator just as the poles…
Transference
inhaling impurities exhaling insecurities a mirror of my breath the air of obscurity
I am the Day, I am the Definite-Carpe Diem
I am the force you’ve all of course tried to thwart though horrors enforced you…
Toilet Frame of Mind
you know when someone don’t believe in you not because of ‘you’ particularly it’s just…
God to God
I’m going to do you a favor and treat you like a god not just…
Kill you with Truth
wish I could Kill you with Truth so you would die to the Lies then…
Stop Asking Me to be Better than You
please, stop asking me to be better than you I hear it in your please…
Global Tel-Missing-Link
building connections on a payphone when the time is limited tentative and expensive pretending with…
I Got a Story to Tell
to the performance stage, from a prison cell I got a story to tell chaos…
Set the Intention to be Free
hello? is this mic on? are these lights on? my thoughts when I was first…
Living With Myself
if you could imagine for a second what it’s like to be me, for one…
Reborn King (Spoken Word)
and you are a newborn prince or a reborn king and you have to pay…
20/20
it’s the mistakes which broke us then brought other things, people, places together now bound…
With Without
I can be without ‘with’ be, can I with without? yes! born abundant
Message to Seekers
please do not open coffins if you can not handle the sacred remains, chant the…
Mercy
I have to learn to give mercy even at times when the lack of mercy…
Air Flow
just breathe mindfully too much wind will make a tornado of earth a hurricane of…
Re-membered
Remember?Re-member. your being, beingdismemberedso to memory, beinglostwho you are?what you are?how, you are? Remember? Re-member.…
Good Damage
there’s value in brokenness you just have to want to see it in yourself then…
Empac-thize
empathize with the devil advocate for the ghettos break ground with the pebbles sympathize with…
See Me Right
you can not see me adding your blockers how can you appreciate me in your…
Pain On Me
God grant that I become more than dirt manifest me as earth and let the…
My Mama Veered Left, but We ALL-RIGHT
I just found out… before my mom went back to jail she started using again…
Melodic Verse: Incredulous
how can you want more for me than I want for myself? that doesn’t make…
I am Good
remember me because I am good I protect the weak I am as kind as…
Broken for the Broken
I don’t want to be healed they need to be felt I need someone to…
Peekaboo
if you face your fears you will see me boo! am I beautiful? freedom is,…
Knowing is the Start
I needed you to see me so I could see myself I believed your sight…
Realistic Reality
your mind tells you I’m free but your eyes say something different I know seeing…
Mental Warfare
I ran into a barrier of some sort falling down from the brunt impact surprise…
Sometimes You Gotta Hurt Feelings, to Heal Hearts
even in relationships friendships sparked a connective camaraderie forged in the fire of external forces…
Relayed in Per Diem
and I leaned upon your shoulder then laid atop your lap melted by the oven-like…
Know Me Better
how can I forsake you was it not your conducting that created me your keen…
a bugs life
if i could speak id tell you dont bug me bug off! im not trying…
A Talent for Sovereignty
as I grow evolve I must coming aware of what’s needed like veins to a…
Freed
trying to control what you do not understand, it is fear! release me! from Yours…
Survived More
overcompensating with, overindulged processed foods and I survive in this life, because I don’t process,…
Fallible Makeup
Some think the system is perfect We know it isn’t and We will make a…
Regardless, Life will Hurt the Same
I care less, that you care less you are care less that is careless I’m…
Not as Crazy as I Once was
I know you may think I’m crazy I know this may sound irrational like projected…
Re-vealed
my truth isn’t excuse nor ungrateful the progeny of your fear resonates as hateful do…
What We Do with What We Have
thinking of the life of Chadwick Boseman how he lived even as he died unexpectedly…
Until They Can, I Will
I have to be what I couldn’t be for beings that have been but can’t…
Ra-Hotep
if not grace propelling love to create how would I be love creates peace creation
Shameless and Self-defecating Haiku
admission everybody shits judge your own inhaled emissions
Liberating Comforts
today I had a root beer float I tasted freedom yum! what prison when I’m…
Nefr Tp(nefer tep)–the highest good
control of thoughts emotions devotion to purpose have in the ancestor’s ability to teach the…
Where then Shall Wisdom Exist?
how can a body stripped of spirit at the mind robbed of imagination contemplate the…
Millenial Martyrs
to proceed to progress we have to hurriedly, process because by death is how we…
Rhetoric by Design
to qualify the quality of equality you must first believe in and successfully conduct the…
Oda Keke- (to be upside down and walking in darkness)
an African proverb states, “they don’t know, that they don’t know, that they don’t know.”…
What Do You Prefer to be Called?
call me what you really want to call me that way we can understand each…
Barefoot Bravado
took my boots but I became a Flintstone and still I stood tall moved on…
Changing Changes Changelessness
my body plunged by this mighty sword of life blood of my life force rained…
Smiling Through Change
the difference between a stagnant activist and a dynamic activist the difference between an activist…
Evolved Light
inside my lair of reasons and unknowns- deep as the ocean floor’s fluorescent inhabitants- there…
I’m not a Poet, Surprised You didn’t Know it
what I write, isn’t poetry to me poetry is clean direct in its route impactful…
Through Me, to You, and back/ You Two, Plus Me, Equals Three
I was always there helping you just look I was always there shedding light just…
More Through Me, to You, and back/ You Two, Plus Me, Equals Three
Home is Where I Had to Make
I feel the beast calling to me consuming me back into her belly and it…
helpfuLess
I dream to save the world I desire to be saved so while I’m out…
As it SEEms
several merchants and a beggar each holding something in their hand besides the beggar their…
Aiming from the Ground (Lyrics)
(chorus/hook): I been 100 I keep it 100 I’m going a hunned I move like…
Advice
advice on love don’t! advice on feel touch advice on hearing shhh advice on seeing…
Omens
wolf howling in the distance conceding an omen a pile of bones left in my…
Sacrifice
sacrifice why must one lose for another to win why must one choose as if…
Dear Diary,
how do you court a ghost, phantom, angel, goddess, or spirit? with patience, surrender, or…
Untitled
I felt your fingers from beyond imagine my surprise the only touch my spirit called…