Equitable reward for time spent on earth.
Time on earth has expired.
Embrace for there’s no escape.
Recipe is found in the Ten Commandments.
No sin will enter Heaven.
Influence others with your testimony.
Treasures should be laid up in Heaven.
Your witness is either a Bridge or Barricade.
Master - gravity
I’ve spent my life pushing against its pull.
I’ve surrendered my body on the altar of its will.
My god has rewarded me for both my pushing and my surrender.
My body is weak and damaged, but my spirit is strong and free.
My god is one true god, the god of us all.
From it life has its rise and fall.
Our god is most benevolent and equitable.
Fight and resist as we may, we all obey its rule.
Master - gravity
Equitable foremost
beginnings numerical
proceeding perception
before the dawn
respect of time
ranked order before the last.
Space forward
brought forth
over beyond
respite truce
if anyone's first must be last
and a servant
of All for
how can one
Hunger,
if one can't
at first thirst
F1rst
01/01/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2024
Joy mixed with bitterness
Hope laced with scoops of mud
This journey unseen
On the way to the holy matrimony
Love is blind
So they said without holding back
Till reality set itself to their face.
"Iwalewa", golden a watchword in our clan.
Imprison it. It will free it itself.
Get along and the signs are mere.
He's a cheat, woman beater, lazy and what you can see. . .
Oh let me breathe!
Shut it up.
My ears ache.
You've made your lashes and acquiescence
Enslaved your equitable rights
You need not cry
Fighting is never the best
With faith hold to fate.
You like to quit? Do!
Pick up your pieces and refresh.
It's a green start. But not your stars too thank too early.
Something different or similar to come.
All pretend to get results
And thereafter let loose of self.
Die not in depression
Die not in the hand of a demon
You have the right to Life
Please live it to the fullest - and not as the foolest.
©? olorunleke Olorode.
After the funeral,
the town changed its street maps,
old houses were relocated. new shops opened
in long emptied malls.
They had never shared their likes or interests,
they had not even shared an equitable life;
now she understood the changing landscape.
Before his death, the town was seen
through his own lens only;
he was ever determined
to shape her view, make her see things his way.
After this post-mortem revelation,
She recalibrated her car’s GPS:
It takes her now
to the as yet
unseen.
My anger has a limit, when I expense my valued time. I mean, appointments were made & confirmed, then upon arrival, cancelled...with little reason or rhyme.
Now my effort taken wasn't simple, as it involved a complex route. Such
as a bus, the train, & then some dense urban forest along this lengthy
commute.
You might imagine my frustration, when on arrival, I'm told
they can't help. As they chalk it up to a computer error, so
what can I do, go complain on Yelp.
Now of course first, I must reverse my trip, through the urban jungle,
to the train and finally the bus. While I search for some kind of remedy,
where I can scream & shout, and probably cuss.
I know eventually I'll calm down, and try to find some equitable recourse. Such
that my time and effort aren't forgotten, and I won't have to call in the big guns
and airforce.
We all deserve to be treated fairly
No matter our race, gender or class
We must fight for equality and justice
To make sure it never does pass
Let us stand together in unity
To ensure that all people are free
To live their lives in harmony
And to reach their full potential, you see
We must strive to be equitable
To ensure that everyone has a voice
And that our differences are celebrated
And that all can make their own choice
Let us work together for justice
To establish a world of peace and love
Where everyone is respected equally
And all can reach for the stars above.
"An Equitable Assassin Trying to be Nice"
...he
slides the coldies
across the table,
the beer, American
not as sharp,
but slides down
quick, smoothly
clean
cold
crisp
he thinks,
lips ripe
for kissing
the prints warm
the motive missing
somewhere lost in the hallelujahs
Jacob’s Ladder
crawling with
footprints
hands, fingers
and lips
all over glass walls
Snow White
doesn’t sleep
at all, but ...
cool as a block of ice,
history melting
all over the place
a cold case
trying to be tidy
trying to be nice
an equitable
assassin
out of place
trying to be nice
cool as a block of ice
history melting
(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
Justice
Just Us
What just us
We of colored race, what's up
Variance of browns shaded skins
Overly concentrated in melanin;
Just us!
Of African descent and other dark places beings;
Just us!
Those of you are of bad consciousness;
Where's ya?
Justice!
Hate the haters;
White Supremacists;
Just us!
We did it have to say so ever such
Father where the Justice
Is it just?
Not me...
Open my eyes, my heart so can see?
Am I just?
In behavior and treatment;
Am I qualified just;
Righteous!
Equitable moral upholding;
Lawfulness this I'm believing am I being been fair;
In the treatment of others of my fellow man;
What's just us just to show shout out in fairness?
Integrity honesty!
Am I Injustice or is it me?
Thinking it's only me;
Just us!
I'm just saying it's'
Just us!
All I'm needing;
is to pray not for man's birthday;
But Establishing the mercy's grace and freedoms;
In His justice !
~Jesus~
11/12/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©
The town lost its street maps,
new plots of land appeared, houses were built
where just yesterday there had been none.
Her world seemed relocated,
changed, as if it had been redrawn.
They had not shared their likes or interests
they had not even shared an equitable life,
and at times had pawned and reclaimed each other,
negotiations and currency
always a part of an unwritten deal.
Now she understood how landscapes can change
minds see from their own windows
through different lenses.
She recalled with late regret
that each of them had not surrendered,
they coexisted in the same place
but a locality riddled with mirages,
scenes they mind-painted
with unseeing eyes.
War gives no gain but just pain.
War goddess is equitable be it with a soldier or civi'an.
Men with same limbs fighting with others of same sapien.
What they get is no rain
War gives no gain but just pain.
Devastating lives of others is really no gain but just pain.
War commences with anger, hatred and desire but ends just with pain.
The golden pot is emptied for no gain.
War gives no gain but just pain.
War will surely end with nothing left.
No men claiming for lan'
but hundreds weeping for men.
It will end with no govt or country superior than other.
But everyone will be the same offender.
War will end with hundreds of deformed damaged houses.
War will end with hundreds of weeping orphan children.
But will it really end?
War gives no gain but just pain.
Water, Oil
Minerals are
RESOURCES
Every
RESOURCE
is Limited
TIME
also is a
RESOURCE
TIME
cannot be
preserved
TIME
cannot be
generated
None can buy
TIME
as no one sells
TIME
eternally is on
forward move
Your TIME
is no different
it's Limited
Your options
are use, misuse
optimise TIME
You alone
are Master
of your Time
Blame none
Remember
Regret too
consumes
TIME
TIME
is ruthless
no extra second
even in last breath
TIME
is indifferent
no extension
in celebration
TIME
is not sticky
keeps momentum
in gloom
TIME
is Therapeutic
heals any
as it passes by
TIME
is equitable
Same quantum
available to all
TIME
defines you
stop defying
stop denying
TIME flies
you are pilot
fly high with
wings of TIME
__________________
© Dr Hitendra Mehta
An atheistic 'Chief Chaplain' at Harvard
The university's raison d'etre bartered
A divinity school, founded to spread God's word
The goal now, 'equitable neighborhoods'
The difference between
denotation and detonation
~ one of nuclear demarcation
“All minds and hearts connected with love and light of universal consciousness, in a flicker free continuum ~ what does life on such a planet look like?”
- Unseeking Seeker
Together as One,
One voice and one song,
One goal they pursue,
This heartedly they do,
A mission to accomplish.
None indulge in recrimination,
Turbulent waters abated,
War is not an option,
None is at loggerheads,
Crime does not lurk around.
Equitable distribution of resources,
All stand on equal footing,
Benevolence is at the helm of affairs,
The strong aid the weak,
The mighty prop the weary.
Fabrics interweaved into one colourful piece,
Cultures integrated and tolerated,
Hands in hands they push against the tide,
The table is set for all,
There’s room for everyone besides.
A world we dream of,
Speculative future we envisage,
Tomorrow’s cities beyond our view,
Their internal architecture, classic and ethereal,
Rays of hope permeate the space.
May 29, 2022,
Unity Consciousness Poetry Contest,
Unseeking Seeker.
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