Lunchtime Rants - Hello Poetry

Jan 2016

Red Fox

You can never save the world
Without Loss
You can only change within
No Matter the Cost

Change Within
Our Greatest Weapon,
A prolific ammunition,
Conveying wounds through the most infinitesimal incisions,
Ricocheting across the battlefield,
We call our nation.

The greatest weapon
Against our greatest enemy,
Ignorance,
Is our ability to inspire one another.
Love Conquers our Differences
Time can Build a better Future,
Even over a foundation of
**Belligerent Ignorance

I am neither White or Black
I'm just ME
Without an understanding or empathy
For anyone who can't see that

#love #life #daily #thoughts #me #lunchtime

Dec 2015

Red Fox

Lunchtime Thoughts

Striving to achieve goals for others
My Daughter
Staying true to ideals of another
My Mother
Constant vigilance so as to not be like my uncle's brother
*My Father

Dec 2015

Red Fox

Us

No one knows what it's like
To live as a ****
we have Hobbies,
Relationships
And we give Our kids hugs.

No one knows what it's like
To be Black all the time
For everyone to lock doors around you,
In fear of imminent crime.

No one know what's it like
To be Me
My problem are through the roof.
I take my anger out
Through poetry.

No one knows what it's like
To be Someone Else
I'm grateful to be here
Happy,
Alive,
And hopefully in good health.

If we all placed our problems on a table,
We'd take ours back.
That's a line I learned from a White gentleman,
Who looked at me for more than being Black.

Appreciate Everyone

A poem in appreciation of my mentor

#love #equality #acceptance #racism

Dec 2015

Red Fox

Drip Drop

Can I have you
Once more?
Can I have you
Some more?
Hooked on you.
Addicted,
A better word to employ.

Can I have you
Just for tonight?
Your warm embrace
Sends the boogie man away

Can I have you
All to myself?
Is too much of a good thing
Really bad for your health?
So when will the horrors of your company
Turn to joy?

Or maybe they wont!
Stuck in a nightmare
Of my vices and faults.
Looking for a resolution
That I subconsciously don't want.

Every drop is a momentary release.
Moving one step forward
But always two steps back.
Trapped in addiction
Is always defeat!

Lunchtime topic

#life #depressed #daily #rant #bored #lunch

Dec 2015

Red Fox

Lockdown

Far from sympathetic,
No fond memories
Of me as empathetic.

Some emotions
Seem like distant cousins
I've never met with.

#daily #thoughts #late

Dec 2015

Red Fox

Love in Waiting

I've loved you since before I knew it.
Your appearance,
Perfect.
Flawless, just the way God drew it.

Your smile, radiant.
Your eyes, deep.
Estatic that it is I,
That gets to crave every word
Your mouth speaks.
Any moment without you,
My heart weeps.

I've loved you since before time began.
Before the first grains enables this rat race to begin.
I've loved you before you loved yourself.
Never had the chance to say,
In sickness and in health.
I've loved you longer than I've ever known.
The mere thought of you inspires this poem.

I've loved you and don't even know your name.
But upon finding you my heart shall never beat the same.
For you are the Omega to my Alpha.
The Yang to my Yin.
But when I find you,
I'll leave this Earth loving you.
My Best Friend.

I had to write something, so here it is.

#love #daily #friend #thoughts #you #bestfriend

Dec 2015

Red Fox

Bitter

I don't want to be
Just a friend
But you,
Yeah you.
You've friend zoned me,
Not once or twice
But it seems to happen,
Again and again.

So I can't listen anymore,
I can't be that friend.
I care for your problems,
Just not when they always start with him.

Yeah, I'm a little bitter,
Because I know I'd do you better.
But every time you have a problem,
You bring it my way.
How black clouds precede bad weather.

So you've run out of time
And I'm just that fickle.
I've found someone else;
But my heart will always yearn for you.
Just a little.

P.S.
No it won't,
won't even feel a tickle.
But since I'm gone
Have fun,
Becoming best friends with
A Damp Pillow.

Spur of the moment rant

#friends #daily #fun #thoughts #bitter #lunch

Dec 2015

Red Fox

To the ladies that made me

I was raised to be a man
I was raised to be strong
I was raised to know how to admit when I'm wrong

I was raised to be a man by a mother of six
She worked four jobs
Never saw her sleep
Smoked cigarettes
I was under the impression,
She never got sick.

I was raised to be strong
But never knew what that was.
I've beat bigger, stronger and faster people
Just because.
Tolerated all kinds of pains,
Been locked up more times than I can count.
Made a beautiful little girl
And that's the only thing,
That made me as strong as I am now.

I was raised to know how to admit when I'm wrong
Anything I've ever done I never regret,
Change tunes or sing a different song.

I'm proud of who my mother raised,
And my daughter perfected.
So I write these poems to show the world where I'm headed.

A simple thank you to the ladies in my life

#father #daily #mom #daughter #rant #lunch

Dec 2015

Red Fox

Labels

I am Muslim.
Full of mistakes,
And far from a good one.

I'm a ****.
Not too far from a hood one.

I know whoever reads this
Has been labeled before
And not always good ones.

But You and I are the same,
H.U.M.A.N.
Honestly Understanding Mistake And Nproving.
We can't ever perfect.
So for those with labels,
Embrace them.
For your only Human
And labels are just small puddles in the rain
So roll up your pants
And dance through the pain.

Wanted to write something uplifting for Lunch.

#daily #happy #good #thoughts #inspiration #lunch

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