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Jelani Griffith Sep 2017
As time past by
Growing up all I heard were lies
Of how they would never leave
SO as I saw one man roll up his sleeve
As he destroyed the things that were created
All I could do was stand and watch
As he treated
My brethren with such cruelty and precisiviness
All they're lives being hacked away
Only because they didn't do their jobs
If only I could walk or jog
I would rid myself of this place
But I have no feet for I am in the ground
Guess I am half way in my grave
But it gets deeper  because all I do is dig
Maybe I should regret and repent
For not being able to do anything for my family
The man comes to me
Begging me to bare fruit
If only I had thorns
I would rip and cut him
But i cannot
For if I die there will be no one
Jelani Griffith Sep 2017
Someone told me if I can't have you
No one can
Another told me if you love it
Set it free
There is a fair line between love and obsession
Love can cause pain to both like wrapping a cut in cloth
It bleeds and leeches you try as slow as a sloth
It brings you joy
Maybe I should stop playing coy
Obsession it causes pain to one or to both
Hurts so much that you deprive the other
Like a malnourished calf drinking from and utter
Maybe i should just close the shutters
Because if these were the two emotions I felt
I would lash myself with a belt
Love brings Pain
Pain brings Hate
And hate creates a coldhearted individual
But obsession brings pain
And that pain brings pleasure for one person
And if constantly done
Like how a clock strikes one
The spent time
Would make pain a crime
  Sep 2017 Jelani Griffith
Jonesy
I was always told by my mother,
That love is lust, and everyone can relate.
That to love is now meaningless and a bother,
It is that one thing that drive mankind to hate.
I know now what she...was saying all of these years,
Love is a burden that we all have to carry as humans.
All of the griefs , sorrows and fears,
Made us draw back into the shadows like demons.
Love, what is that, and why for it we care?
Is it that thing we use as an excuse to hurt each other,
Or is it the thing that make us feel rare ?
Love on my part make us so crazy that we can't even trust each other.
I know, love...is deceiving, disloyal and unfaithful,
It is the mother of everything I know to be shameful.



Jonesy 2017 ©
My new collection : A conversation among broken hearts.
Jelani Griffith Sep 2017
The burden that you hold
Can eat you whole
And swallow your soul
For it is a bucket of negativity
and it's getting heavy
You lurk for that positivity
Like a ray of sun shinning through the darkness
But as you find as you get deeper into the dark
The light has disembarked
Now as you are caught in the bad words
Like idiot or fool
Maybe the only thing you can do
Or more like should do
Is forget those people
Forget the negativity they bring
Because your bucket of negativity is fulling to the brim
When the burden gets to heavy
It would leave you severed and broken down
Like a current pulling you underwater
Causing you to drown
Instead of positivity lifting you up like a king putting on his crown
You see that you give into negativity
The trumpets you see will make no sound
The positivity and negativity is all around
Might hurt to hold it but you will make it each round
Jelani Griffith Sep 2017
The effort shown
For something you own
To make something so beautiful wilt away
Instead of wanting it to stay
To nurture and care for it
Face that you make when you throw it in a pit
And as you stay there and sit
Just to wait until it's beauty had decayed
And who would tell you different
You do that to others just different sequences
But you define retaliation
With hatred for beauty
Thinking its the only thing keeping you sanity
But its unsanitary
The stain that you left
As it decays
It wishes you the best
It pleads with you to not hurt the rest
But you have that scar in your chest
Where your heart should be
Shutting out everyone
And a life like that is lonely
Jelani Griffith Sep 2017
The wolf howls to moon
Its' a cry to the wolves that lost their lives in the war
Soon it shall join it's brothers in the stars
For war leaves a scar that cannot heal
And keeps a pretentious smell of iron and steel
For it is all the wolf knows
Addicted to war
They all fight for peace
But there will never be any
The moral of to day
It might burn like fire coral
But it is the only way to make them stay
One sound to make them disengage
A retreat would be called
The wolf would crawl
The felt off a piece of iron passing by
You look to your side
Your brother there looking at the sky
But you survived
And you wonder why
Maybe so you can tell the tales of how your brothers died
Jelani Griffith Sep 2017
The pain in my heart
Your the only one that ripped it apart
You showed no mercy
Now I'm like a cage bird wanting to be set free
My heart is bonded by chains
It only brings me more pain
But I love the pain
I know it might seem strange
I have a very complicated sanity range
That's why I'm still with you
I thought you had cured me to
But all you did was give me a pill
And forced me to take it against my will
Saying I feel better afterwards
I didn't know you were pretending
Now the infection is spreading
Gone to my heart
Another symptom of the pill you made me take
Now I'm awake all night
Knowing you might not come back
The pill you made me took is still in my system
But I will wait until the infection is blistering
Maybe then you will start listening
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