promise me promises, promise me pain
What is Darker than Dark?
you know how they say happy wife, happy life well, energy transfers those you surround…
Deep-end
if I fall in this deep end, don’t blame me I can’t swim in this…
Scribing My Pulse
even as I have lost luster for life my nerves being chilled to ice still,…
Late Night Tripping (song by WayOfLife)
hello? wanna know what insanity is? when looking inside of a chrome-plated mirror, inside of…
Hard to Give A.. (excerpt from song written by WayOfLife)
hard for my heart to give-a-beat it’s hard for me to give-a-fuck it’s hard for…
More Hard to Give A.. (excerpt from song written by WayOfLife)
Just a Dream? (song by WayOfLife)
I dreamed I, could-n’t move last night, I was trapped in my mind, I think…
Less than Self-less
I’m not myself I am not ‘my’ self I am another self- an ‘other’ self…
Don’t Bother
you don’t have enough time to hear the story of my pain so don’t ask…
Don’t Take it Personal, it’s Just What They Do
it seems like such a long time since the mass building of railroads opiates, grains…
Deliverance
delicious desires desecrating my divinity diluting my dignity destroying my pallid with its overloaded stimulation…
What Type of Time You On?!
this is the dark, where they hide light protect your heart, hind, and blindside because…
Quagmire
the more I study the more I educate myself the more I learn the more…
Killer Instinct
when there’s nothing left to kill whom shall be preyed upon deviant desires don’t dissipate…
In My Void
in my void, I created you, in my absence I re-created my void and now…
More Than a Call
I can only image how ordinary it must have felt for you getting on the…
If You Saw What I See
change is all around us but we refuse it you refuse me you refuse us…
Chaotic Haiku
made for suffering Murphy’s-Entropy I am jade, my condition
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
This Moment, Next
AHHHhhhhhh! AHHhhh, AHHHhhhh, AHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAATTTEEEE. THIS. SHIIIT!!! (exhale) released negative energy purge-a-tory (smile) it is…
Theorizing-How to Kill
how can you kill what does not die? kill their memory of eternity of what…
Bottomless
what is too deep, when coming from the bottomless? what is too deep, when rising…
Lethal Injection
black people don’t have the best history in America… well there’s more to this statement,…
Unrecognizable
they are dead what they once were they are no longer so tell me if…
Worth More Alive than Dead, but Death Costs Less
People,… Peeeeople, I was once knew as warriors, are now dead…dead inside, and dead outside,…
Bordered Up
boundaries create lines lines not to be crossed without permission but before there were lines…
helpfuLess
I dream to save the world I desire to be saved so while I’m out…
80’s Crazy
they say 80’s babies were the crack babies because the 80’s were crack crazy but…
Rave About the Butterfly, but You Better Forget About the…
you love my words just not the heart it comes from you love my slang…
More Rave About the Butterfly, but You Better Forget About the…
Traffic’d (Lyrics)
(chorus; repeat twice): I still got hang-ups I never got rid of but those are…
Caused Condition (Lyrics)
(bridge): you need me you need me… you made me… (chorus/hook): ima be the bad…
Humpty Dumpty (Lyrics)
(poetically rapped free verse:) umm, attention on the mic is everything alright? it’s dark, I…
Avoided
voyage voiceless voices voicing voids
Who am I?
too different too dark too deep too smart too extreme too far too soft too…
Missing Person
misled misused mistaken misunderstood misperceived misjudged misnamed misheard missing
Killing Empathy
Elijah McClain Elijah McClain Elijah McClain Elijah McClain black people, we’re already seen as different…
White People
the more I learn about me the more I learn of our history the more…
Schizo
shhh, listen, he’s talking right now “is he talking to us or them” shut up!…
Symptoms
pain inscription pain encrypted pain description pain decrypted pain subscription pain submission pain inflicted pain…
Foster Child
If all you do is punish me how can you ever see as anything other…
Omens
wolf howling in the distance conceding an omen a pile of bones left in my…
Feel Like Dying
I need to hurt right now so that I can tell you how I feel…
Remember My Place
remember my place where I’ve been placed its lack of, yet ever opening space a…
Fight to Survive
when you hide to survive when have you ever been alive when you lie to…
Miserable Company
we came together us three, and made one one body of, shock shame and shackles-…
Sleepless
hurt shame embarrassed guilt lonely hurt suffering voided hollowed angry crowded overwhelmed fallen I’m just…
A Moment of Darkness
there’s a nefarious cloud hovering its dark, carnivorous dominion fangs oozing black, thick syrupy liquid…
Unplanned Destiny
I wish they’d understand me I wish they’d understand it nothing goes as you planned…
Depth Perception
I’m sinking or drowning I’ll let you tell- the differences, I’m thinking or dreaming I…
Gripping the Lines
there’s a line everywhere there are lines lines that form lines that border and lines…
My Chaos
insanities vanities calamities is there, amnesty from humanity? humanity is what damaged me …but I’m…
Travesty/ Tragedy
travesty tragedy tracking me trapping me cornered into savagery tortured by my casualties forces formed…
5 Jigsawed African American History Pieces
battered black memories black savages blackened eyes civil liberties yet ask for black submission and…
f* logic
fuck logic logic only makes sense of limitations… boxing tangible things with conditioning platitudes constricting…
Evolving Dream
Give a Beat · "Evolving Dream" by Russell Wardlow A once hoped for, and seemingly…
This Sys-tem
This sys-tem is like a cyst this sys-tem is a stem of oppression and isms…
Concentration Camps
Capitalism won’t defund prisons so make a labor class of it’s citizens, voting rights and…
Projection Deflection
If a person stands in their truth, they are seeking attention. If self diagnosed, they…
Dear Parole Board
Dear Parole Board I wasn’t supposed to be here Do you know the dark I…
Symbliminal Messaging
Removing symbols aren’t the solution but in a society of symbolism and their creeds idolization…
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…
Our state- ran by brilliant billionaires
Uh we have the most billionaires per capita in the U.S. here in Nebraska. Pete…
Capitalism rites, write rights
This country was always capitalists or at least headed that direction there’s no heart in…
Unheralded Nebraska Corrections
Everyone flies over walks past or stops by this middle America Nebraska our crime lowered…
Drugged
Drugs or die do drugs or die doing drugs cuz I wanna die doing drugs…
Avarice Society
Why is it so hard for us to create healthy changes to our perception, thinking…
Contempt Contentment
Right before I enter my room I look into it’s narrow window and it’s small,…
Compiled Compliance
You want me to be myself but more like you, more in the way that…
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…
Looking Back-in
The saddest thing is making plans far down the road at a date where you’ll…
Pressure
Ran from too many lectures and pressures, back pressed to the fire exit doors Jump…
Formatted Function
Function is a formed matter of perception function can’t deal with dysfunction nor can it…
Societal Farmers
Take a look at who you process those innocent kids thrusted into statistics poverty and…
Chained Change
Prison is a unique walk that is, if you’re looking to grow and mature because…
Black Pandemic
Promises “progress” poverty public policies politicians profiteering police prosecutor prison parole and presidents(dead or alive)
Prison Made
Punish me, if I succumb to the pain you impose on me and have the…
Stepped on
How much indignities must I suffer how many insults must I bear how long shall…
No middle
I only feel when I’m threatened or stressed I have to go thru something to…
Psychos Therapy
Psychotherapists should look to set up in prisons if they really wanna make a difference…
Grew up, I’m-prisoned
I grew up mother incarcerated father deceased I grew up as a foster child and…
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…
I’m off
I don’t feel good or normal unless something is wrong “what’s wrong?” ME! “huh?” what…
White Vigilante
Born on my own land I am my own man I have my own plans…
Everyone is a Felon
Either in conscience or act. The only line of difference is my color. Every so…
What have you done for me lately
So I’ve noticed more police campaigns and commercials advertising what they do for us now…
High Horse
You put me down looked down upon me saying, my place was down well I…
Here-US
Nebraska doesn’t hear us or they just don’t care and no one outside of Nebraska,…
Everyday C.O.
C.O.’s are average any day people. When handling prisoners, I would think there should a…
Blasé
Sky is blue everything black and white I am grey…or gray
Cost to Change
Money!That is the barometer of changeThose who have it vs those whom don’tThose that have…
Color’dBlind
Stop saying you don’t see my color You are NOT colorblind Nobody is Why would…
ProPros’d Thoughts
Wear in plain sight, though it’s deep as geneswake up, hate everything seenblood flows through…
puh, puh, bullshit! (bless me)
Policies politicians police pulllllllllease! sounds like target practice to me
Blood
I pray..I stray..eyes glazed..crrrrryyyy babypupils, diiiiiiii-latedhe-look-de-hyyyyy-drated, she-look-de-hyyyyy-dratedblood peaking…I see,.. bloooood seeping open, blooood seeping o-penblood…