It hurts literally to look into the faces of the future and to know that for most, it’s the beginning of the end. Trapped, confined, imprisoned by ones own culture; we have no chance of release if we have nothing realistic to grasp on to. Hope isn’t enough to feed ones family, action-less faith has…
Originally posted in July of 2018 I told you I was weak, you insisted I was strong I knew I didn’t do it right, you said I couldn’t do it wrong I said I would die right here, you said shut up and breathe again I told you I was lonely, you said meet your…
Originally posted in January 2019 This is my eternal breathin Truth finds good root every season Time turns over we call that reapin From the Darkness there is light, this is pleasin You ain’t gotta have faith but you must believe in With a logical mind we call it reason That black man on top…
Originally posted in February of 2019 Vague ambitions exaggerated by claims of greatness. Exalting minute visions of fantasy to disguise the fears of reality, ruined identities. Grasping characteristics of studio role models. Generations defining success by the brand of shoes on their feet. Mothers’ burned souls kissing the glass idols of their religion; inhaling death,…
Originally posted in January of 2019 They found him swaying in the wind with his toes barely touching the ground. His face bloated from the hemp cutting into his neck. The smell of urine is strong where it stains the ground beneath him. With the thirteen loops, the noose was =(equal to) justice for one…
Originally posted in December of 2018 We are > (greater than) our circumstances. We are > (greater than) the disparities that have us at each other’s throats. This isn’t mathematical or maybe it should be to make more sense to you. If you do not recognize that having a negative perspective on life will lessen…
Originally posted in December of 2018 Do you think any less of what I say because I speak from behind bars? I’ve learned to wade through the river of the past atrocities done to my people. I now reek of the residual effects of slavery, lynching, Jim Crowism, and Affirmative Action. There have been nothing but casualties…
We couldn’t fix it when it was broken, where does this leave me When we yelled for liberation, they said we’d be set free Lies embedded into our culture making us easier to mold Generations of males behind bars, making it difficult for us to hold… On to our pride, our dignity, at vapor we…
Originally posted July 2018 Yeah, I’m tripping because this shit is too real Living through depression, poverty, with chaotic emotions how’d you feel If you great grandma was raped and stripped of pride Unknowingly leaving her future generations lost and blind Black faces misplaced, lost behind brick, steel and barbed fences Their foot on our…
Originally published in March of 2019 Before I was African, I was Black. Before I was black I was man. I lived to give my family, my people what was needed to survive. I fought for family and died for family. I woke early to hunt, to feed my people. I loved and made love…