Though the night be long and hopeless,
the morning comes and the sun shines,
stunning light on still waters,

The earth is calm and serene,
from Alaska to Beiging,
Hope shall win...

a dawn of dreams of past
as long shadows are cast
....a new chapter of life

    Forget about the past,
    In hope be steadfast,
    The pain will not last.

When the wind blows and ocean tides,
When the night falls and the bat flies,
The light of the moon on the dark skies
The evening bird cooes praise
for The One who provides the grains,
And all races  His grace,
No one has seen His face,
Since the beginning of days
Days in their thousands and ones
Every being takes in His breath,
All united in destiny,
To cohabit and coexist,
One for the other

She married him only last week,
Seeing his caskate makes her weak,
Her tears a constant drizzle,
The 'why' is still a riddle
He was the only son of a widow,
always by her side like a shadow,
A stray bullet went through his head,
She meant the whole world,
His soulmate ,
heaven could not wait,
the worst landing of a pilot
She wishes she could change the  fate,
The priests says rest in peace,
The relatives bead their farewells,
In their dark dresses as it drizzles,
Her parents are now 'the late,'
Her only hope and light,
She is the  new target,
She seeks  the love in the streets,
He  finds comfort in his drinks,
Her old  heart weakens in her mourns,
A dark emptyness on each soul,
As days pass it gnaws and grows,
A passageway for the Angel in Black ,
YCan one break  the cycle?
Another procession of black lays the caskate,
No one escapes the fate,
    Rest In Peace.







Sending…

The magic of Music ,
The gospel hallelujahs,
Nostalgias of lost lovers,
Captured in notes and stanzas,
It is Companion to the lone traveller on his own,
Strangers from every corner,
music is for  all.
The faith in it the love the fear the regret ,
Adds beauty to the universe,
The morning birds' acapellas,
The soprano of the wind,
The beauty of mans beat's
Distinguished from all beasts,
Every note heavy with memories of past and hopes of future,
The art meant for the heart is music,
altering monotones and sorrows,
Giving hope for tommorrow,
An endowment of ages, for rayals and sages,
As it rises from within the quiet of the conscience,
Defeating explanations of science,
How it sparks chemistry is alchemy,
Down through history
A lovers afrodisiac,  
A trusted sedative through pain,
Meditative,it lives and breaths,
A beat ,an art, a beauty,

Now read from bottom to top.

How my roots reached deep  i dont  understand,
Just a dip of the finger in honey was once
Then twice to hundreds of times,
I feel the thing taking over like a master sometimes
This aint honey any more
Now i feel im done, not defeated you know
Im done of my afflictions to this addiction
Time was true to my conviction before  accusation,
Many days waiting for the planetary alignment
A single focus was after enlightment ,
the light to the darkness was my endowment,
Evade its craving and fate of the cascate as the beast chuckles on the feast
Enraged i clench my fist,
tragic loves and terrible betrayals its taste
The missed flights and broken plans
Judge not lest you be judged,
The beast in me demanding to be fed
What it asks is unnatural and weird,
Pushed a catholic  for pork on lent
All my days fighting i spent
Sometimes i win this fight sometimes i lose to its palate,
thinning my wallet
But now am wise and i realise,
What am i even fighting for,
I call the shots  and therefore,
The beast imma lock him up in darkness for ever,
The might of the conscious is bigger
Imma tap just to a quarter
Replace this bad habit and tell the devil to kiss my ***

Me: What can
what can i do
Too many people wishing you were dead,
(Do all that you can when you can do)
What can i do now
I hit rock bottom from the sky,
Cuz they go all crazy when i shine
Am so lucky that i didnt break my head
Am strong enough for the life ahead,
Never want them back
They stabb yah back,
Backbite yah back, orchestrate ya sorrows
Today and tommorrow
Like it alot when you go wrong
But we been friends for so **** long
My failure is the source of there laughter
But when together they be acting luster
Guess now ill run even faster,
Run even Faster pray even harder
*******
Tryn harder to hurt me further, like my deadbeat father,
Nolonger givn a **** bout what i feel
But still im stronger like steel,
See i  aint even wrong them,
I wonder why they do what they do

What can
what can i do
Too many people wishing you were dead,
(Do all that you can when you can do)
What can i do now
Turn my other cheek no
I rise above them all now
(Do all that you can when you can do)
Remember them days back when i didnt mind my back,
My backpack full o packed coke we be runnin them blocks cuz we blacks never relaying on luck  i pick mosta them and the likes cut them some slack in my shack cuz they lackd,
We made a whole new home
They swore to never place greed before a ******, reciding them creeds like eminem,
before what we did in em streets to pull through,
my crew my life we cruise
We win we lose we floz
We never ceased to love
Is it too late...but it dawned on me it wasnt real
What can
what can i do
Too many people wishing you were dead,
(Do all that you can when you can do)
What can i do now
Turn my other cheek no
I rise above them all now
(Do all that you can when you can do)
We split tha ways cuz i wanted legit,  no more fakin it ,a  **** with a conscience look for a license protect the streets i raided cuz they raised me
Never place greed before a ****** is the creed we wrote you broke no longer broke you rich now but still robe the streets the many throats you slit for cults it occurred i hadto leave
I did the time for yall as you balled cuz i loved you all and you know how i loved Ael as her head you popped with them bullets
The same bullets i taught you to shoot
Give you the other cheek you sick,you know,
i had no other chic but Ael you weak freaks
Stick to them halls cuz im comin fo yer,
ill break my vows for her


Sending…

Ive ignored her on most nights,
acted like i didnt care
Because she was always there,
But in darkness i  miss her  shimmering
She goes across the sky
The light of day reflecting
Down on the empty street below
As echoes of bats  bellow
Her insistent persistance,
giving hope to thieves and watchers,
A little help to party goers
she cant let them all be alone
The moon
What a loathsome night it would be
Ghosts and demons reigning,
Like on a night she is hiding
Nightmares tormenting
Dutifully she  rises again
Calls out all stars in the galaxy
And begin the journey round the earth,
Round and round for eons
Before they invented neons
She  never discloses her age
But her beauty is vintage
In the dead of the night,
When stars glitter and crickets chirp,
I hear her whisper,
How much longer?

Me: Said i will always be numb to feelings,
Shut myself in no complications,
Blasting my music and doing my art,
Painting with words... images beautiful and hypnotic...
One day she rode by,
her looks exotic,
The evening  breeze
Eyes soulful and white ... with calm a composure,
She was a sweet torture,
I discarded the piece i was on  
She thought herself cooler than me,
loathing what i hated and adoring what i loved,
Saying yes before i asked like my clone...
i started on her art,
...Charming her way into my safe haven...
i thought it would be safer with her in
I painted  a beautiful genie in a heaven,
... singing to me songs  from another world,
Words invented,
I painted,
I painted feelings, seasons and galaxies,
Rocking to the beat with every stroke...
the genie by my side arms around my back,
Praising, encouraging with a pat
A masterpiece grew from my hands,
Emotions oozing from my art,
Cool breeze blowing my face
In this haven of two...
I finished ...i turned around...
the genie was gone
i wish i never let her in,
Its only safe with one,
me, myself.Me
Sending…

Dont say i didnt tell you,
Dont say i didnt say that someone always ends up hurt
Another fled, the other i pushed away, but you stayed,
Its my fault you hurt, for lending me your heart,
You...i liked you alot you know
...i should have locked you out,
Pushed you away when you came in...
You ...your serene big white eyes made me think otherwise,
Know that i tried...know that i believed...
But the winds kept tagging hard...
You brought calm over me...
I thought i was soulless with my blasting rock music...
But you saw what even i couldnt see...
I have not obliterated you from my heart completely,
Even thought the winds change, you will always be here,
Though youre already gone
Because you Fridaad my heart.

Through the years , through the tears,
through it all you were always there,
you are always there...always strong,
hopeful, faithful...patient....patient...
loving truly, feeling my joy, feeling my pain,
listening
teaching a few, suggesting a couple ....i appreciate
Thank you mama

Cool elegance, an aura of joy you possess, a one happy girlfriend...but not mine...
Mine deep down...my all...my dream girl...but am not hers either...not for the world to see...
We know it...only us...the electricity.. when the **** eyes meet...and the room heats...
phones vibrating with ignored texts...trance...hypnotized by deep passions...not embarrassed to reveal your carnal nature
The moments together...a world of difference..no one has to know.... I'm just happy this way...she is just happy this way...
No one has to know...i will keep loving you...i will keep keeping this crush till we are 70...i feel you deep down to my sinus ...and you know that..,
And I know that too...no matter how hard you try...you can never hide how you feel from me
No one has to know....no one will ever know...my secret love

Lonely man...lonely soul
Keeps to himself a world of solitude
A world of secrets
....night crops in...
Birds flatter in the dark trees...long shadows....silhouettes
Night of the full moon, bats cry nervously.
Man seized with fever...sweating....groaning....
hair growing longer body growing bigger
Clothes start to fall off...a distant howling is heard..,a tail springs
Beast man falls on all fours
Jumps through the window...on to the rooftop... Deciding where the howling came from...springs down and runs fast into the woods...
Looking for his pack.far away from humanity....in the dark rim, he howls again, a thunderous roar...the alpha is around
The pack sits.... long snouts gazing at the   moon, watching the clouds go by...there in the night...the urge to test blood engulfs his wild heart.

LISTENING TO NATURE SINGING
Andrew Juma
Hearing the wind  whistle  among the trees,
In the wee morning hours,

Or  the chirping birds' acappellas,
Among dripping leaves,

And the waterfalls cascading Rocky cliffs,
Clearly one believes that
Man has not written the best of songs,
Among non/ living things.

No One Forgets their First
A year of awakening,
A company unforgettable, a journey to the forbidden...
hours of speaking without words,
contemplation...confession...

The unending conversations,
Wrapped in warmth untold...
Respect unheard...care...concern
A world of two, a space untouched.

The eye you gave me,
I knew you were only for me
A heaven built for me...
Wine...chocoalate..honey..milk...

Hours of just you and me,
Wanted to sing to you Baby Face..Lionel Richie...Nameless
Wanted to make it endless
In a world of preying hawks
I was never insecure

No one forgets their first,
No one forgets their first-
endorsed by angels above,
You don't try too hard with the first
But you try less you lose

Gifts you gave me I still keep,
But a broken trust is what you keep,
I dream of you sometimes,
But its just a sweet little past.
I miss you  VIRGINIA

Chocolates ,warmth,love
The first time I walked with a girl I was nine,
Cold and weighted down,
With a backpack full of books
June,my feet freezing in my shoes,
My breath producing steamy frost ahead of me,
Then disappearing.I walked toward her house,
The one ever quiet with many trees,
A dog barked at me until she came out
Hands in gloves and woven marvin on the head, I smiled, touched her shoulder and  led her down the street, across a green park and a garage, until we were facing an old candy shop, we entered, I turned to the sweets ,colored and boring,
I asked her what she wanted-
Light in her eyes, a smile split across her face,
I fingered a penny in my pocket,
And when she lifted a chocolate, I didn't say anything.I took the penny and a different flavor, and placed them squarely on the table,
When I looked up, the girl's eye met mine, and she held them,
Knowing very well what it was about,
Warmth,
Outside, a few cars hissing past,
I unwrapped mine fast and shared a bite
Fog hanging low in the trees,
Warmth spreading in my veins,
I held my girl's hand in mine

The Knight of faith
EYE TO EYE WITH THE DEVIL
THE WORLD SHUT AWAY
FISTS CLENCHING IN MENACE
A FURNACE  OF SMOLDERING SULPHER
MY MISSION TO ACCOMPLISH
SO  OTHERS CANNOT SUFFER
A CHILD OFFERED TO THE MONSTER
**** OR BE KILLED THE KING DID NOT BOTHER
NO SOUL EVER RETURNS AFTER
- THE LAST VAULT OF THE DUNGEON IS SEALED.
HOPE IS MY BEST FRIEND
UNTIL MAYBE IM SKULL AND BONES
AND THE GODS SEND THE RAINS

ONE THING I KNOW FOR SURE
IM NOT READY YET TO DIE

THE CREATURE  ADVANCES AND ROARS
A VOICE WHISPERS YOU ARE NOT  LIKE THE OTHERS
MY HEART POUNDS ,I STAND MY GROUND.