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Chains

Get off my back! 
Don't put those chains on me. 
I can't take it no more 
The arguing 
The fussing 
The fighting! 
The monkey is on my back! 
The boss wants this 
The wife wants that 
I need peace of mind 
Get these chains off of me! 

Feels like a vice on my head 
Squeezing everything from me 
Pulling me this way 
Pulling me that way 
I don't need this STRESS on me 
So GET OFF OF ME!

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This Is Who I Am

Brother, 
Lover, 
Poet, 
Freelance writer, 
Son, 
Grandson, 
Nephew, 
Godfather too. 
Christian in transition 
Whose life changed in so many positions 
Through so many persons and faces 
Changing from many places. 

Dreamer of dreams 
Poet of the extreme 
A deep thinker of thoughts and ideas. 
Undercover comic relief 
A man who had its share of sorrow and grief, 
Walker of many miles, 
And who puts on many smiles. 

I'm no ego tripper 
But a man who reaches for the Big Dipper, 
Commanding dreams to come true 
And a person who also encourages you. 

People lover 
never undercover 
But face 2 face with you 
A thinker so deep like an ocean blue. 
A dreamer who goes beyond the stars 
No matter how deep or how far 
This is who I am! 

I maybe a gem in a rough place 
But I am the person with that face 
You'll never forget 
But in time your mind will set 
On the things I told you 
And all of this is surely true 
Of who I am to me. 

Child of the '60's long ago 
i write these verses to let you know 
Of who I am so listen well 
As I finish this to tell 
For this is who I am! 

Black Man 
Trying to do what's right in this land 
For this is who I am 
This is who I am! 
(C) 2006

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Celebrating You

to my wife Vanessa

I celebrate you---
For just being you and only you,
Keeping it real
As I celebrate you.

Now that you are growing older,
Wiser,
Better,
I do celebrate you.

For what you do
And who you are---
I do celebrate you.

A daughter to someone's mother,
A sister to someone's brother,
A wife to someone's husband
A lover and friend
To this point
I do celebrate you.


May 2014

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Bus Ride

When riding the bus you see things
Cars rushing by
People crossing the streets,
Bike people riding in and out of traffic
And then it's watching spring emerge
Blooming the flowers and trees.

All kinds of people riding,
From the poor working man 
Trying to make it work on time,
To busy people hustling and bustling
To an elderly people trying to get about their day.

From the window view
The world seems to pass on by quickly
With it's well managed yards 
To not so the not so managed yards and big buildings
Standing tall like soldiers in amazement.
I love the bus rides as it travels
One place to another along the city
Traveling those long roads and streets.
April. 2014

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Armed and Dangerous

Here are the lyrical, poetic, rhymes of many 
Words sewed together into one poem 
Even in an uneasy world 
There are not easy words 
To say to you in any shape or form. 
You see I am armed 
With poetic verses split down the middle 
Of what my brains proceeds 
And from out of my pen 
Are those words from within me. 
Sooner or later it comes out 
As spit out these words 
Making me very, very dangerous. 
Dangerous with poetic words or thoughts 
Preceded by one after another. 

3 July 2004

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Star Child

Open up the windows
Look out into the skies
Millions and billions of stars,
All shapes and size.

The Heavens are filled
Playful lovely lights,
Giving off such beauty and delight,
Brightly so shinning.

The moon glows brightly,
High up above,
What a delight to see,
Among the stars.

Poets dream while lovers play
And lovely is such a night,
Just looking up to see
Yet another sweet delight.

Those sweet memories
Of a night lover's dream,
Making me wonder more,
Of what may be seen.

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Evening Sky

The day has gone 
passed another day 
Of hustle and bustle of another day 
And the struggles of the day 
The trials of the day. 

Then the evening sky appears 
With it's stars dancing in yonder skies 
And lighting up the night so wonderfully. 
Splendor is the beauty of it all 
As the night darkens the skies 
And the loveliness of it all 
Suddenly defines in wonderness. 

The peacefulness brings on silence 
And the life of the night comes alive 
With the city shinning below 
As a diamond glittering glowing. 
Suddenly the night gives way to the day 
As daylight shows its face once more... 


(C) 2006

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Living For Today

I am living for today,
To look forward towards my tomorrows.
No matter the cloudy skies that may
Bring on showers of happiness.

No matter how gloomy
No matter what the problems are,
You have to let loose and free
Those things that seems not so.
 
I am living for today
I am looking forward to the future
Forgetting the past in every way
Making strides for whatever maybe.

I traveled down the road of hope,
No matter how dark it maybe,
Through God I am to cope
To whatever there is
I am living for today.                       
To My People
If my people could hear God’s voice
And obey the voice of the Lord
For my people
To my people 
Hear the voice of the Lord
And love the Lord.
I share my God to you
To my people
To my God!
1983

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Color Blind

I am a man- 
No matter the color 
No matter the race 
No matter the time or place 
I AM A MAN! 

I am CoLoRlEsS- 
No matter if I am WHITE 
No matter if I am BLACK 
But this is a fact 
I AM A MAN! 

I am human- 
No matter who we are 
No matter the boundries 
I am color blind you see 
And I AM A MAN! 

No matter how you are 
Rather black or white 
Dark or light 
A brown or gray, 
I AM A MAN!

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Nation

a social commentary

Among the vast of sea and land
Where a nation is born
Where a nation arises from the ashes to stand
Upon other large shoulders.

And coming from out of this very land we live,
A mass of people from every race and creed,
A nation of the rich, the poor that's ready to give,
Solace to those who are in need.

From the ashes of war and sudden death of a nation
Young but ready to face any peril in its way
Becoming patriots of a nation ready at any time.

Struggling for equality
Of rights we believe in,
And that's not for some but for you and me
As this young nation be always ready.

Our churches may burn to the ground
Or tallest building suddenly falls,
But I know for each battle cry and sound,
A young nation goes forward at any cost.

When Black Lives Do Matters to some but not others,
When fascism and racism bleed the bodies of our sisters and brothers
And mothers hold their children tightly
A young nation goes forward.

When churches are supposed to be a place of safety,
But instead killing fields for those hateful ones
Leaving those behind to be
Orphans, widows and in sadness.

When there are men who are filled with hate
Fueled like fire burning inside
Crash into our nation's most sacred gated
Just for the sake of freedom.

Who will fight for me?
Who will fight for those left behind?
Who will fight so I can be free
While this nation suffers and die.

I lost faith in this nation
As she slumbers and sleeps
While there's a generation
Trying to understand each other.

The Rainbow People wants rights because they are gay
The Indigenous People wants belongs to them
Everybody's got a handout in everyway
Pulling a nation further and further apart.

Arise people of this Union so brave
Arise and take note,
Have you forgotten the blessings God gave
While a nation sleeps away.

In the vast of people in one place,
Divided and strong
But one as a Union none to replace
Or bring about unity
This nation we live in
Yes, this nation we live in.
16 July 2022