Dear Sky, I’m Falling

the ground resilient and unwavering takes a chunk of flesh I could have kept going but it caught me, and now I see the world from the sky, at the bottom of the fall upside down, I see the world right side up for the first time, I can feel the waves of evil radiating […]

Peace We Pursue

Follow the pathway through the trees In between the raucous crowds And over walls erected in militaristic prowess You will find the voice of truth Underneath the bed covers of youthful lovers On top of the roof where the widow sings Down in the valley of what once her domain Sounded the call of truth […]

Across The Oceans We Came. On Fear Of Death.

Pain of travel No one cares About the breathing Time whips the human soul Out of its body Broken bones aren’t as weak As the shattered mind Individual Rendered Inept Aboard the oceans Across the ships Never to return home Never to return Peace and prosperity White sands become the enemy Yet white men Become […]

I Make ‘Em Look Bad

I make ‘em look bad Oh yes I do The things I write And words I speak Get their palms sweaty Knuckles weak Because I’m not dissuaded by discomfort I enjoy making you speechless And to use popular slang, butthurt But I hurt your mind more Because I know we can all do and be […]

Reinstate Jim Crow

I hate people that feel entitled Fuck if I don’t invite you Fuck if the world doesn’t give to you We’re born to everything But granted nothing Breath is temporary, life is a gift Time is a tool, but even the greatest craftsmen Have accidents My ancestors were slaves, man I know what it’s like […]

On The Problems Many Seem To Forget…

there’s emptiness on this road stepping to the beat of hunger poverty and shame every blink of my eye sends a waterfall of compassion every rise of my chest charges the air with electricity to power the depressed and give legs to the fallen I was not sent here to give the good news I […]

Would You Rather Be The Disease Or The Cure

Quiet room never empty, never full always wishing someone or something could find in it a use sitting in the heat of summer and the cool of winter initials carved in the bed frame remind the emptiness how much he misses her dust collects on unattended shelves as the shadows take off their masks and […]