Long American life Poems

You say all lives matter
Bringing up all these colors 
Like red, white, orange, and blue
But when a black life is taken, where on Earth are you?
Where's your sympathy and support when the takers of our...

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hey white girl
what are u doin 2 day?
are u complaining about da events of ur self imposed stressful day
hey white girl
what u sayin 2 day?
Knowin u
its in direct contradiction 2
what u said yesterday
hey white girl
Didn't...

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Everybody has dreams
Only ones who got it good completes the American Dream
But what about the ones who haven't got it good?
We'll try to change the world if we could

The problems always stick out
But from what...

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Motherland
             Journeying into the unknown
             Journeying into a deep soil
 ...

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En-route Onikan Stadium
I had evaporated from
My abode in Samonda
Only to condense in Iwo road. 
There I saw them  begging
One barely leaves before
Another jumps on us
They were beggars of the Niger-Area.

Behold !an old haggard
Tattered looking...

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we're living in an era of ignorance 
we lost our innocense
at fourteen your too young to vote but old enough for death sentences

these politcians are hypocrits
for the atrocities that they commit we face imprisonment

durring this...

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Not happy
not unhappy
not satisfied
not unfulfilled
being a cancer makes me susceptible to  the energy that surrounds me
it also makes me aware of my downfalls
i am a baptist  but hardly  pray
i am a ...

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Hummingbird..

Hummingbird with light brimming
Sing a song to awaken flowers that are hiding
On the gentle breezes I see you riding
Peace to all you bring
As if by magic you hover in time
The divine quiet of your wings...

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Fading From The Light


Into this darkness, I thought I was free. Could you count the minutes of joy I had now there gone never again will they come back.
Now I’m burning from the tears that...

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Granny said that all things have a seed
and that every seed produces its own
thing to be reaped:  good or bad:-
 
At the time, it was hers and the bible study
lesson to be taught and...

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I wonder who I am sometimes, what seems to be a universal phenomenon. As everyone remains looking to be someone other than themselves, because those who are themselves are persecuted and dreams hung on the...

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Soft hair     Smooth skin     Nice teeth     Enticing
Knowing what good fortunes all these would bring
Soft hands     Smooth face  ...

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2007 How Much I Despise You

2007 How Much I Despise You

2017 How Much I despise You
Following 2016 the second worst year ever
Will 2018 be any better ?	

And what we have suffered
The darkness settles on the...

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they're dyeing to be tested
got itchy trigger fingers restless weapons
this young boys are wretched
and with the ratchet they're reckless

its a sick progression
you can get hit in a split second
as the violence keeps progressing
everybody fetching weapons

but...

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Death by misadventure.
That is sadly how 
most Black lives 
wrongfully and unnecessarily
lost at the hands of police officers
are written off these days.
It's become the new normal.
Yet another Black life
has been snuffed out 
while in the...

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*Murder most foul. Rod Serling, Stephen King or Ellery Queen?


Picturesque place on the edge of nowhere, small town American life.
Suddenly subject to media glare, reports of the mayor's missing wife! 
Search parties, rescuers, all on...

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Let me introduce you to a young man named Johnny.
He truly loved his brother Tommy.
As youths the two were inseparable.
But living in the projects, three years ago they faced the inevitable.
Sixteen years old playing ball...

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Street Symphony
Urban Thoughtz Part 2

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
The Streets just took another soldier leavin another mother breathless

Trapped in the fact that men cant escape smokin so many trees...

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The origins of light born through the dark velvet,
Linger in the outer stratospheres of air.
Reaching out to the cosmic bodies connecting,
Pure sources of energy.

Expanding with the birth of every living creature,
Exhale with the breaths of...

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He is tall and beautiful. 

I glimpse him from across the room as he laughs showing a mouth full of perfect 
white teeth.

His personailty sparks and sizzles the air, it jumps across my skin causing...

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Who does she think she is?
She does not belong here. 
This is not the Ghetto..
She does not belong here.

Is she like, lost or something?
Can she not find her way home?
Who told her that this campus...

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Nonsense. All of this interracial prejudice. All of the real wars of violence are in 
our homes and fenced in backyards.
Nonsense. interracial madness. Hating the sight of your own kind - forgetting it 
could easily...

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these young cats are sick
bullets zip then they dip
witnesses zip their lips 
wont say sh1t

they just skate off
homicide scene taped of
no dental records the whole face shot straight off

no his squad plots revenge
the cycle don't...

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with my originality 
came my individuality 
because of those 
i had no problem with my journey to naturality 
my eyes began to open 
starting to live in reality 
started to see that friendship was quality...

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Me im who i am not who u want me to be
You wont break my spirit cuz I let the Streets flow through me
I look like im 18 but im bout to bust 22
Im tryna...

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