promise me promises, promise me pain
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…
More The Case Against: Perpetuation and Prosecuting Plaintiffs
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…
Lead by the Knowing
I posed a question then searched for my own solution I could no longer depend…
What The Hell
I almost killed myself blah blah, what the hell I ain’t ask for no one’s…
I See You Mama
I see you mama don’t be led astray by these deceitful people, nor let the…
Depravity
You know why I am so uncomfortable? Because I choose to care. You know why…
I Know You Are, but What Am I?
everybody is crazy but I am insane everybody is chaos but I am bedlam everybody…
If ‘If’ was a Spliff
if you were healthy we wouldn’t be speaking of unhealthy choices that you make, which…
a bugs life
if i could speak id tell you dont bug me bug off! im not trying…
What is Philosophy
if we exercised moderation the veil would be lifted from our over-stimulated senses and sense…
Jefferson’s Reflection
reflecting on priorities they evolve but rarely change constituting priorities starting with article 1 implementing…
Whose Feelings are These?
I don’t know if if if if I have e if I have emo if…
Living Hell
imagine if hell is your worst day repeated over and over and life is a…
Survived More
overcompensating with, overindulged processed foods and I survive in this life, because I don’t process,…
Regardless, Life will Hurt the Same
I care less, that you care less you are care less that is careless I’m…
The Nerve of You
you came to prison to be a leader and a servant and then some combo…
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…
White Water Rafting
white water don’t take me white water don’t take me I can’t swim! help me,…
Partisan Brawl
as partisans stall we fall but take your time it’s not like we’re dying for…
Sororities
black badge of inferiority white badge of superiority police badge of authority freedom badgered by…
Under the Blanket
it’s a cold world and that I’ve learned I heard someone say do not call…
Baby Booming Guards
I came in a young man, my eyes still hazy but they opened quickly, becoming…
Compensated Reality
through terror- psychological, physical, and systemical- through mayhem- created, formed, and ordered chaos- through control…
For the Time, Being
black lives matter until another matter, matters until another form, swarms until another cause, draws…
Convalescence
we need a blow how can we rest and heal when we are steady climbing…
Millenial Martyrs
to proceed to progress we have to hurriedly, process because by death is how we…
Too Late for a Job Well Done
it’s not that the shooting wasn’t justified it’s the many times we’ve heard a mother’s…
I think I Shall Thank You
when a victim is continually victimized and the victimization does not let up they are…
I Would Like to Smile
I want to smile in fact I love to smile universe willing, I think I…
History and Reality Put in Perspective
an estimated 50 million taken an estimated 13 million didn’t make it an estimated thousand…
Should I take the Floor?
how much do I have to speak, for you to listen or how silent must…
Vicissitudes and What-You-Call-Its
first I was, unknown but I was, open arms then I became, bamboozled and thereafter,…
Phantoms of Democracy
invisible attacker visible wounds invisible pain visible reactions invisible ailment visible symptoms invisible torment visible…
Incited
I wonder how you all would live when the protections, have run their course being…
Wright, Wronged
I weep for the African American Mothers of African American Men I’m An African American…
Names Hold Weight
as a man of African descent I am no Uncle Tom never have been but…
Watching the Sun
feeling like a child of your light as you watch me watching you closely, then…
Bodies aren’t Just Commodities
there have been 1532 souls executed in our country for every 9 killed, there is…
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…