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Mar 2016 · 712
The gamble
Erving Mar 2016
My life is a hand of poker played in a crooked casino,
Losing at every turn, this cancer beating my chemo,
These syringes take me higher than crack and a cappuccino,
I will end up in a box dressed up with a tie and khakis or chinos,
I've come back down, parachuted from being so broke, God has my soul out for repo,
When I turn around I want to make my entrance grandly incognito,
This battle is Lost, my blood drawn out by racist mosquitoes,
Now I get up seeking revenge for my peoples,
No one around me departs after using those needles,
For once in my life, my actions are right not illegal,
I won't depend on the gamble of the lawyer and his paralegal,
I circle around back to this social casino,
I wasn't strong to beat this depression, and therapy was my chemo,
This is my relapse from being alone and my life played out as a silly game of keno.
Oct 2014 · 317
The C word
Erving Oct 2014
With this walk, with this talk I raise my hands up to the sky,
When the Grey clouds would arrive this day would be one to survive,
Hook me up to this joke played on my life
See me smile see me laugh it is a rocky ride,
It's amusing oh your stories in this road
Being traced by the blinks in my eyes
My breaths my heartbeats; living free not slaved freedom at last,
My mountain top is a treacherous climb,
My wide river crossed with gasps of air not giving up,
With this walk and this talk, the fights not over cancer you won't take my life.
Sep 2014 · 328
Men
Erving Sep 2014
Men
I have walked the path righteous men should walk, I speak of non religious based Gods, no books with synonyms  and semantics to dictate how to grow,
Perfection isn't holding hands with men, excellence is perhaps men's closest ally,
I try and try again but then-
It sets in this mindful thought a seed of fact, a seed to be the crop to translate what these eyes see and these ears hear,
as appreciative I am thanks from these lips simply aren't enough,
For having this machine in my head; my gratitude leads me to say that it isn't the path of the righteous men- It is the imperfections of being men that help correct our heading in this earth
Sep 2014 · 462
Untitled
Erving Sep 2014
Fictional lies, have thee crossed into my colloquial reality,  why; I beg posing as if it was you who coerced me to these cuffs,
Waves of despair and ominous character break into my soul-
It is this the harvest, a fertile soil, take me away it is my season-
Falling into an abyss is the norm, there is no control;
My compass points north, I've woken up from this dream- this fire has been extinguished;
It is fictional, I've got more for which to Live
Aug 2014 · 317
Untitled
Erving Aug 2014
If Adam and Eve were a true story; I would sin for that woman to live in eternal glory
Aug 2014 · 709
Sunset in the ghetto
Erving Aug 2014
I am separated from the rest based on my uniqueness it is said, an illusion that even I can reach success  
My beginnings trace back to a trap I could not be freed from,  my home,
Inject me with combustible fluids to start once again my soul, please I beg,
My neurons need to fire and fire time and time again
No, it's a Mirage here I am once again
Enslaved and chained to what "they" accuse me of,  I can't be transplanted from where I am therefore this is my sentence;
If so put me out my misery for I have already withered away,
Be the best you can it is said, but
How can it be explained if even education was a privilege I couldn't get,  as you see my uniqueness washed away by a stray bullet in my brain
Aug 2014 · 315
Life
Erving Aug 2014
Elevate me mighty one take me to astronomical Heights, so simple and so miniscule, and yes it weighs heavy on most judgmental mouths,  see my days are full but hanging from a thread,
If it isn't for you mighty one; I'd be a cloud who can't produce mother nature's tears of joy, I survive for my everyday meal is you my precious life
Aug 2014 · 319
Falling
Erving Aug 2014
Quite a leap or in fact a flight into oblivion,
Who's to say whether fruitful or pointless
Some words are perhaps better left unsaid,
But a silent voice can't yell out its frustrations, and a quiet mind thinks and thinks while the ground seems closer and closer
Aug 2014 · 313
Untitled
Erving Aug 2014
It's my rebirth, my eyes and soul having been jump started once again,
Such an insulting past cannot be resurrected nor can it be cherished,
I can see her bright mind building a tall structure deep in this treasure mine
Aug 2014 · 393
My night terrors
Erving Aug 2014
I oscillate suspended perhaps from the reigns of this dark ceiling, the wire holding my consciousness breaks and suddenly my trip becomes ominous,  please my misery isn't worth your amusement nor is it any  consolation for bad luck, it is now this realization of my dreams undergoing corruption, a sea of hallucinations and self induced masochism in all attempt to achieve the collapse of reality
Aug 2014 · 314
Who I am
Erving Aug 2014
I'm a volcano that erupts and corupts when my seduction I conduct,
No I'm not a product
Of your imagination
This existence knows no imitation
Needs no dictation and this be no indication of no rebellion
I'm an apparition in a partition of the brain none that I do is an action done in vain
Perhaps it is forgotten the letters that compose my name
This is a refusal to damnation my actions require no explanation
I'm a thunderstorm in the clouds up above

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