Severed, broken, shattered, unraveled, corroded, destroyed and gone We replaced it with a token of gratitude For total abandonment would be too rude A straw made rope with a silk line core The titanium layered rope isn’t there anymore Used to be a bridge that the world couldn’t break There are decisions that life will…
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Today a man got shot Yesterday a vial of disease was dropped Tomorrow a bomb will detonate And right now a country is filled with hate She was thrown of the balcony left in a comatose state He went to the church and was violently raped Terrorists are planning something new And your neighbor is…
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Like flames it licks every inch of my frame My darkness has grown it now chants my name Alluring, its sweet nothingness is beckoning The restraints within the abyss are less than nothing The shackles of reality will kiss the floor Wings of dark feathers will let me soar Forced will be a term banned…
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Beautiful horrid defying but loss screams but silent Whispers in a crowd Love by law, nature by rule Timed with patience, in an endless fool Don’t win yet forsake all, fall but call when you hit Forget the pain jump past rope Burn the look Ice the cold Kiss the cheeks Mind uneasy fingers move…
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No one will ever love the true me No one will ever see my past as a thing of beauty No one will ever see my flaws, as what makes me perfect No one will ever see how bad the inside of my soul is wrecked I will always be forsaken by the ones I…
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Sensation through warmth, excitement through calm Absolute perfection held in a flawed palm Intimacy through touch, painted with a new brush Shivers turn to shudders, as the end comes ever closer Awake in a dream of US, drunk … hoping to not become sober Intoxicated by your scent mesmerized by your taste Concentrated on the…
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The subtle chirping fills my room with a unique melody The passing cars seem empty I am alone and I love it I revel in the silence of my mind I adore the space created by what I left behind I caress the darkness in the gap And whisper “I wish I never had to…
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Vino … What … Peace Have you ever seen me perform, have you ever heard my words The way I speak my dialect my slang my slurs If you did how can you still say goodbye to wordsmith such as me The brutality of my words, the viciousness of my sentences the illness of my…
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We danced to our own melody We moved to the notes of our heart She held me as if in love with me She is a small ray in a room dark I feel at ease, could sleep in her eyes as she looks at me I slept beside her my mind grasped at the…
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My heart used to beat to the tunes of her kiss She knitted a blanket from custom made words to cover with She embedded me with the strength of ten men Allowed me to achieve greatness over and over again But now my veins run dry Unable to see the silver lining so I don’t…
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I like candy, the way the sugar meets your tongue The way you feel when it’s all done Candy used to be a rush equal to any gift If there is anything that is something I miss Remember when you were young and you had to eat vegetables and fruit Remember when you were done,…
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I don’t know what other dreams I can give you I don’t know what other words can stay true I don’t know how to create another dream to achieve I don’t know how to stay when I want to leave I don’t know what to write feels like I wrote it all I don’t know…
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They lined the framework of my wordplay They manipulate the sentences I say Reorder my letters, restamp my syllables Correct my multis, make my lines creditable They demonstrated the pictures I illustrated To verify that I would see why the wings on my pieces no longer fly They diamond plated my bars, platinum gilded my…
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You dreamt we were together We hoped it would get better, struggled through issues Your tears were met by tissues My fears were met by reality And now the puddle of affection runs empty Scars run deeper than any vocabulary dare express The chances for love have just become one less Shards of dreams lay…
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You are so sexy, the way you stand there and perform, is heavenly So self-assured, so confident yet not cocky The way your pink lips exhale galaxies for me to get lost in I let go, and float on the flow of your words my mind the ship The way you create life from a…
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I am in this city where lies have been stacked upon each other till they reach the sky The fumes from passing cars must have affected my senses and rendered me high Because I swear to you, I can see pigs fly I came here from this small town called “Other People’s Experiences” The mayor…
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Let those tears flow, release them into the world; let your fears go The wings your future will fly in on are missing more than a few feathers But perfect is nothing more than an illusion created by a society trying to hide its own flaws Run till you feel you can catch the light…
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There he goes, bag over his shoulder as if he is carrying the weight of the world Contemplating if something this heavy should be bench-pressed or curled Each step towards this place fills his body with a unique sense of being As if every muscle in his body knows what he is going to be…
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People have this idea that you can only be happy in a relationship As if your life is meant to be spent with somebody else And if you have failed to find that person, you have failed in life itself Dismissing the idea of growing on your own and being whole alone Two parts don’t…
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These dreads are a reflection of my rebellion against the normThey keep my sanity together when society once again throws me into a stormWithout them I could stand in a culture meant for a select fewSome believe that your hair tells everything about youThe problem is that the story that is being told is often…
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