promise me promises, promise me pain
Human Terrorists and Humanitarians
how we give much aid when those taxed for the aid need aid Ukraine is…
Heart-filled Reminders
made to remember my record yet I forget the records written upon my heart that…
Where am I?
today I looked from my top bunk and saw my position an overhead lay out…
Stolen Identity
darkness is misunderstood it was the first light that which only knew unity. and the…
A Bunch of Slaves
devil worship is only ego worship the mind mirror and manipulates so it can mirror…
Family Feuds
I’m only affected by you because I identify with you at someplace in my being…
Definition’ers
if we can build buildings and trade goods with clear codes and protocols yet can…
Dumb Foundation
talking about a problem is no solution it is an admission of a quagmire and…
Overflow-eth
the corrupt can always be corrupted even before the corruption the corruption is reaction of…
Cut Outs
there are many pieces can you see the ones needing to be brought back together?
Self Absorbance
when you not around this is how I feel this is what it makes me…
Go Figure
I’ve been ready ready to die ready to die all my life now that I’m…
This is that Man’s Worlds
the world is more than black and white yet I lose not sight of arrangement…
Poor Choice, Poor Condition
to all who have ears to listen and eyes to bear witness sometimes poor is…
The Pain You Reap
to know life is to know peace to not understand life, is to know pain…
For Granted
you don’t hear me even though you push me to be heard turning up the…
The Devil Unknown
the longer one lives in their delusions truth takes the appearance of hate
The Noose of Knowing and Not
some are born knowing and others, born needing to be taught the problem is the…
Life Philosophy
life without a methodology is not life nor is any life philosophy which comes from…
A Dad in ’09 and ’12, a Father in ’20, Still Becoming a Man
I was a dad before I was a man I’ve been a man for less…
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Prodigal Apology
Dear Father I’m sorry for you know my heart where the full extent of this…
Stumped into Submission
a world leader once said, and I’m paraphrasing- if you want to see the values…
If a Prisoner was a Politician
I recently heard a prisoner say, “we invest in weapons of mass destruction but not…
I know I am, but so are You
institutionalization is conformity systems indoctrinate institutions institutions administer people systems classify organizations and organisms people…
Even in Prison there is a Circle of Life
I watch fat birds flying free in my misery getting full from food we refuse…
What’s Being Learned From and Who is Considered the Learned?
I heard from a fellow convict: “history is about knowing and understanding what happened, why…
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Time Torturers
I’m seeing it break them all… as if the certainty of time personified bone-crushing fists…
Black Me, White Antagonism
why is black love synonymous with white hate why is black liberation synonymous with white…
All Things Come to Crossroads
how long will I take this indignity… if the cost is too great than what…
Lethal Projection
homicide is externalized suicide
Reflective Rhyme Schemes
I used to see tragedies as God’s way of getting back at me maybe because…
before there was Now
the snow came unexpectedly but we made do and we noticed for the first time…
Erect Your Spine
the flood came last lo, foundation lost the backbone bent a temple’s collapsed pillars shocks…
Measured Breaths
the toll of my very breath upon my heart pains me to death or at…
Dark Energies and Dark Entities
when you become aware of them they too become aware of you you’ll know this…
What is My Worst Fear?
success in your eyes and then, failing You. predictions expectations opinions statistics beliefs ideas hopes…
A Mistaken Will
he that claims one’s imagination enslaves his emotion and subjugates his kingdom to the dominion…
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…
Black History Free Writes: Black Skin, White Mask
Frantz Fanon posed the question am I all I say I am, am I all…
Prison, is a Place for Ghosts?!
pt. 1 prison is a place I go to often in my mind jogged in…
My Country ‘Tis of Thee
I don’t know if this is just black history month cuz it also feels like…
Audaciousness
tenacity voracity as opposed to veracity audacity! you can NOT, be timid you must be…
Mistaken Identity
I am depressed I have realized at heights and depths that I am not my…
Entries of a Madman
there is a war going on you can’t see it though although it’s truth is…
A King, has Returned
do not the poles of the earth bring about the equator just as the poles…
To Politics, or to Progress, is Two of the Same
what is politics but the antics of semantics sandwiched between vantage and ad-vantaged planning to…
Perspective of Pinnochio’s Parent
they wanna hear you rap bout how you kill yourselves “look at how they kill…
By Design
structural genocide social suicide systemical homicide a culture plagiarized institutional do, or die economical plan…
Hyperbole
I’m a hostile hostage pay homage to the home of my homicide- a homogenous hostel…
I See People
I’ve seen people, come to prison with violent crimes and leave with addictions I’ve seen…
Fought the Love I Fell
I’ve fought the love I fell and fell into the spell of fighting smoke screen-I’m…
Dreams that Kill
if I had dreams my dreams would kill my mind transformed into a gun my…
I Wish
I wish you would listen I wish you could listen I wish you would stop…
Tone Deaf AF
when you are White and you say, All Lives Matter just think how that sounds…
Don’t Hold my Love Hostage
don’t hold my love, hostage I’m not one for, bondage what’s entitlement when accountability has…
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…
Confined Romantic
romantic fantasies help me sway and fade out it’d be a Cinderella story if I…
Living With Myself
if you could imagine for a second what it’s like to be me, for one…
Dist-stance
time and time we create lines and lies circumscribed to describe our circumference size then…
I Dreamed Reflections
I dreamed I fell asleep in a sarcophagus… after swallowing intoxicating thoughts of martyrdom and…
Damnit
the man got me by the balls the devil got me by the ankles I…
Maraudered
darkness escaped from blackness dreaded color consciousness humanity forgotten truth lost Pharaohs extinct to His-Story…
Crying to my Spirit
waiting on nothing hoping for something somebody someone somehow feeling like no one with nobody…
Fear Less
I won’t give another tear to another year living with another fear
Inhuman Differences
allow us to be human not hued-man the mix messages which switch with colors are…
Care Package
I’m not careless I just care less of things and people I once cared for…
Freedomite
I didn’t get sentenced to give away all these years to give a damn about…
Extradition of Conditions
unconditional… sounds more like a platitude unconditional love, acceptance if I tried it given my…
Air Flow
just breathe mindfully too much wind will make a tornado of earth a hurricane of…
In Between a Rock and a Safe Place
I have to be the rock the rock that doesn’t sink though I’m sinking… I…
And it Goes On
here we go again anger and fear the most potent concoction here it’s too common…
Good Damage
there’s value in brokenness you just have to want to see it in yourself then…
Trapped
think they understand you not realizing your actions results from how they demand you stereotypes…
Living Liars
there’s this lie one that you must know about me I wrestle with it more…
Thing Chasing
lost myself losing things lost things lose people people lose things loss seems like self-lost…
If I Must be Black, Let Me be Black in Peace
do you hear me? let me be black in peace! your way is not, interrupted…
Nicked Names
couch philosopher serial pornographer self fondler emotion bottler trauma swaddle’r pot stirring potter’er fictitious biographer…
The Case Against: Perpetuation and Prosecuting Plaintiffs
pain perpetrated by privilege promise extinguished by distinction persons distinguished til extinction purpose dissented by…
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Byebye
shh if you let me I will disappear you may only feel me maybe even…
Melodic Verse: Incredulous
how can you want more for me than I want for myself? that doesn’t make…
Mothman
tough guy I see your truth scared man child boy grow up I smell your…
The Mind You Frame With
maybe you look at me different maybe you look at me? different. maybe you look…
Animal Kingdom
meek as a lion in a pride full of victims with an eye full of…
Broken for the Broken
I don’t want to be healed they need to be felt I need someone to…
Knowing is the Start
I needed you to see me so I could see myself I believed your sight…
Shelled
I’m simply a mollusk too soft for this world so I’ve grown a hard shell…
Don’t Look Away
no more handicaps! take this damn bandaid off me! do not hide my process I…
Break Down
just give me a break! I’ll break a leg I’ve hit the brakes I broke…
Avoided Scars
I ask you can education be traumatizing? can the very act of learning, absorbing engulfing…
Ran Them Off
I like meeting new people they don’t last though bless your hearts, it’s me pleased…
Little Lies
I lied surprise, surprise but truth unveiled to the eyes would have been my demise…
Expendable
is not life worth living for? then why hast thou punished my effort fore I…
When is Enough, E..?
cops immune to presumed guilt criminals immune to presumed innocence justice goes to the cuff’er…
Mental Warfare
I ran into a barrier of some sort falling down from the brunt impact surprise…
A Country of Sharecroppers
who is the modern day slave? not just one sentenced to structured captivity because prison…
Sometimes You Gotta Hurt Feelings, to Heal Hearts
even in relationships friendships sparked a connective camaraderie forged in the fire of external forces…
What You See isn’t What I Got
I hate you America I hate you because you made me hate myself I hate…
Just Waiting on You is All
a person died…inside of here he could’ve been saved but the responders…correctional officers were slow…