I need to be consistent, persistent
And resistant to thoughts of resistance that's nonexistent.
I need to chill out, to be calmer in stressful situations
When my mind tells me there's no way out.
I need to sleep more, to eat,
I need to smile more, to take a seat.
I need to pray, I need to cry.
To not doubt, to not lie,
About my feelings just to avoid the pressure of uncomfortable questions.
I need to speak up sometimes
And to not ignore warning signs.
I need to grow, I know.
I need time to clear my mind.
Oct 7, 2023
Oct 7, 2023 at 2:07 AM UTC
Never settle for caterpillar
Never think cocoon is the end
Butterfly isn't easy
Let change be your friend.
Jul 25, 2023
Jul 25, 2023 at 2:50 AM UTC
I've been running all my life from the things that chase my mind,
Hiding, ducking and dodging all the **** that keeps me behind.
In a race against my sins; these demons aren't too kind.
I keep thinking I need love but
What I really need is a rhyme.
Dec 30, 2019
Dec 30, 2019 at 2:03 AM UTC
I don't even care anymore.
I quit listening to your melodious voice- I don't even hear anymore.
Because you were my song
And I used to believe that my interpretations were wrong.
When in fact
Your lyrics were never synchronized with my tune,
Your beat never actually took me higher than the moon.
You were just a fake.
An astronomer fooling me into believing you were an astronaut.
And my foolish mind never thought I was wasting thoughts.
Thoughts orbiting you- my home planet.
The place I felt safest
Now there's no place worse than it.
Yet I still stare at the stars and dream of you and I taking that spaceship cruise.
I feel so used
See? I'm confused
Just the way you always wanted
You've won, my love.
And just like old times- I lose.
Jul 21, 2019
Jul 21, 2019 at 10:23 PM UTC
Nothing lasts forever,
Forever is a dream.
The present is a gift,
Your past is more than it seems.
Our future isn't promised,
All we have is today.
I'll be the shoulder you lean on
I'll listen to all you say.
May 26, 2019
May 26, 2019 at 2:01 PM UTC
We'll never be one;
we'll never see eye to eye.
And I'm not being pessimistic I'm just stating the facts.
The fact is that we talk a lot of unity and love
but nobody sees it when we act.
Politics mistaken for race;
Race looks like religion.
Religion is self centred
And in the centre of it all is an empty space.
Why are we even fighting?
Jan 22, 2019
Jan 22, 2019 at 5:02 AM UTC
I would've never imagined that I'd have you as my own
In my life there's been nothing but gray skies and cyclones.
Now you're the sunshine that chase the clouds away,
the gentle breeze that gives me peace on heated day.
My always;
my forever.
My climate, cause you don't switch up like the weather.
My day one, my woman,
my hype; my wife.
You're precisely my type.
Thank you for changing my life.
Jan 22, 2019
Jan 22, 2019 at 3:57 AM UTC
They say sticks and stones could break bones but words won't hurt.
Yet the letter sounds that escaped your caged mind through your lips hit me to the earth;
I tasted the dirt.
All I wanted were your caring words to lift me up like I could defy gravity.
But you, you're supposed to be my comfort not my means of depravity. You. You who brought me into the world, supposedly to build me up,
are the wrecking ball that led to this tragedy.
In my chest is a mess,
My mind needs some rest,
My treasure, my self-worth, faded into nothing
When you felt pleasure in telling me
I am nothing
And nothing
quite hurt
like your words
nothing.
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019 at 7:39 PM UTC
No-one will ever know
hiding behind a wall of lies is a weeping brother trying to sew the torn peices of his broken soul back together.
No-one will ever know
he's withering inside but still still trying to grow,
stretching his limbs for help but does anybody notice him there? No.
No-one will ever know
that screaming from behind a veil of make-up is a girl's dying soul.
Wrapped in pretty clothes
she's trying to break free of the hurt she feels inside
but they don't know.
No-one will ever know she's been tormented by her imperfections and failures
and although she tries not to let it show, it does
but does anybody pay attention? No.
No-one really cares
and they all do a good job at pretending not to see or not to know.
Instead of stopping to help
they turn a blind eye on conviction
and they just go.
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019 at 6:56 PM UTC
My ancestors taught me to be bold, brave and outspoken.
My society teaches me to keep quiet, roll over and take the hand outs I'm presented with.
My spirit tells me to incinerate the negativity around me by adhering to beats of a broken heart in my chest,
Yes! My body wants me to fight fights in the wars between two worlds- theirs and mine,
But my mind, my mind is trapped in-between rifles and swords.
Can't you tell from the scars and holes?
I'm fighting to free my soul.
Jan 20, 2019
Jan 20, 2019 at 1:06 PM UTC