Wow! It's you!
Call me obsessed, regressed, or even stressed.
     But you're the one!
I rinsed and winced, convinced.
     My one and only!
Why the pause, what's the cause?
     Don't be lonely!
I've been waiting, baiting while stating.
     You're for me and I'm for you!
Love is for us, thus we must bus.
     To our Forever!
Turning our tending and mending to a sweet ending.

every time I close my eyes,
my life beats behind my eyelids
like the wings of a butterfly
as questions form the rhythm
of a song that constantly plays.

Maybe.

Feeling all kinds of insecurities
that no one seems to get.
And tired of all the questions
about where my life is currently at
and currently not heading.
My life shouldn’t be a question for people.  
It’s not their’s to understand.
I live it at my own pace,
and do what makes me happy.
I don’t have to have it all perfectly laid out
or go by the book.
It doesn’t have to be all pretty.
Because what I learned years ago is something so much more important.
It isn’t about how perfect you live your life.
It’s not about how smoothly everything goes
or how many successes you can add up.
It’s waking up each day seeing the sun shine,
and knowing you get live.
That you chose to live.
That you’ve survived,
and with each breath and every heartbeat,
you are still here.

i am over without the easy|
sometimes a cup without a saucer|
often shoes without socks|
but mostly i am legs running and arms whirling

in a hurry to escape the day|
in a rush to fill my head with bouncy thoughts|
in a flurry of wishing flat words into fantastic stories|
of turning grey into cerulean, and rust into claret

i am questions with more than one answer|
questions which play on my mind|
answers which go around and around|
like petals of eccentricity whelmed by an eddy|
and trying to escape the day in a hurry

Who Am I?
A question too romanticised
To have one answer;

Maybe I'm a butterfly,
Spreading my wings
And becoming a metaphor for creativity

Maybe I'm a spirit, a ghost,
Wandering and gliding around
This plane of existence for answers.

Maybe I'm a leaf,
Fallen from a tree.
I glide and glide and I am free!

Or maybe I'm just me.

I'm myself.
And sometimes I write words
And people like them.

I exist,
And sometimes I do things,
And other things happen after that.

Maybe I'm self doubtful,
Maybe I lack a certain narccism,
Maybe I'm missing my confidence.

But to be honest,
When you ask who I am,
I answer:

I am me.

There’s So Much Today...
That Now Seems To Change...
BEFORE Many of Us...
Can Even... ADJUST... !?!

So My Question Now Is...
What’s Behind These Things... ?

Like What’s Really Behind...
New Gender Drives...

But The Answer When It Comes...
To... Homosexual Guys...

Is That Behind Their Bums...
Is A... LOT of ****... !!!

In Fact They GO IN...
To The Place That EMITS...
What’s Known As ****... !?!

Now Isn’t That Something... ?!?
When You Take Time To Think...
On How The Two Are Linked...

And Those Words Are FACT... !!!

So To Those Who Take Offence...
What’s Behind That Stance... ?

Girls And Guys Do It TOO...
And That’s Clearly Now TRUE... !!!

What’s Behind THAT FAD...
To Need To TAP THAT ***... ?!?

In Ways NOT Seen As Cool...
In The NOT So Distant Past... ?!?

It’s A Whole New School...
of... ****** Moves...
And Use of New Tools...

Like Modern Day Tech...
What’s Behind The New Trend...
of Tech Now Being Used...
To Track And Trace Our Moves... ???

As If We’re... CRIMINALS...
Whose Movements Need To Be...
... SEEN CONTINUOUSLY...
By New Tech That Is DIGITAL... !!!

The Changes Keep Ringing...
Just Like Web Heads Be Clicking...

So What’s Behind The Way...
That People Are Now Living... ?!?

Connecting And Transmitting...
And Zooming To Get Visions...
of People Locked Away...
Is How We Live Today... !?!

And Clearly Now Tomorrow...
While Corona Causes Sorrow... !!!

It Seems That We Now Follow...
Too Much That’s Clearly Hollow...

So What’s Behind The Songs...
Being Played... Nowadays... ?!?

That Don’t Rock Airwaves...
Cos They're Now Played...
In... DIFFERENT Ways... !!!

Streamed And Now Downloaded...
And Now... Online Promoted...

What’s Behind All The Commotion...
That’s Comes From Videos Showing...
Our Young Artists... Gun Toting... ?!?

I Don’t Know But I’m Glad...
That I’m NOT A Young Man... !!!

And That My Young Days...
Are Behind Me Now...
And That Seeing Old Age...
Is Where I’m Now Bound... !!!

Because Too Many CLOWNS...
Are Claiming Artist Grounds... !!!

And What’s Now Behind Them...
Cos It Seems To Be BAD MEN...
Who Are Causing PROBLEMS... !!!

Just Like These Heads...
Now ABUSING Women...
On Movie Sets...
And Casting Couch Beds... !!!

What’s Behind Their Moves...
And... Forms of ABUSE... ?!?

Cos’ They’re Clearly NOT COOL...
And Need To Be REMOVED... !!!

UNLIKE... The TRUTH... !!!

What’s Behind These Crews...
Who REFUSE What’s TRUE... ?!?

And Would Rather Confuse...
Than Let The Truth SHINE Through... ?!?

And FINALLY … To End...
What’s Behind These Cancel Crews...

What’s Their Problem... !?!
With Letting People Air Their Views... ?!?

They Seem To Be FRIGHTENED...
of Hearing Views Expressed...
That Cause Them Offence...
And Seem To Get Them UPSET... !!!

What’s Behind Their Wish...
To ZIP Peoples Lips... ?!?

Which Now Brings Me...
To The End of This Piece...

What’s Behind MY Views...
Are Things That Deal...
In... Poetic FREE SPEECH... !!!

A Thing That We...
Should NEVER Leave Behind... !!!

It’s A Part of Life...
We Need To Keep ALIVE...

And That’s Why This Script...
Is Questioning... How It Is...

That We All Now Live... ???

And This Need To RESTRICT...
Peoples Wish To Express...
What It Is They REALLY THINK...

So My Final Question...
Is Simply... THIS...

... “ What Is Behind It “... ?!?

Okay So Today...
Its Clearly Fair To Say...
That Questions Still Remain...
When It Comes To Race...

What Makes Some Think...
That It’s Okay To Link...
Themselves To Thinking...
That Is Ignorant And Clearly Racist... !?!

A TRULY CRAZY Thing...
When You THINK About It... ?!?

It’s A Question of WHY...
It Seems That Some Whites...
STILL Can’t Clear Their Minds...
of... Racist Lines... ?!?

And The Type of Vibes...
That DON’T Recognise...
What’s Wrong From Right... ?!?

But Of Course Nowadays...
... DIVERSITY Claims...
Are Those That Sway...
With New Gender Veins...

While Poor Black Folks...
Are STILL Treated Like Jokes... !?!

To Be Laughed At...
And Be Treated Like Crap...
To Be Thrown On The Heap...
When It Comes To Disease...
And Making Money... !?!

Unless You’re Down...
With Corporate Mouths...
And Hollywood Crowds...
Who... DON’T Upset...
The Cancel Culture Set... !!!

And Now Technology...
Has Become The New Friend...
of Some Racist Heads...

The BIG Question Now...
Is Will New Tech DROWN...
These Enforcement Hounds... ?!?

And Do MORE Than Defund...
... IGNORANT Policeman... !?!

Cos’ Like A Lot of Humans...
Now Corona Has Come...

The Word REDUNDANT...
May Now Become...
A Word That STUNS...
Like Their TASER Guns... !!!

And What of Questions...
For... Mister Biden... ?!?

The New President of America... !!!

Is He Suddenly Now...
A Man Whose Views...
Can Be Seen As Sound... ?!?

When It’s Clearly True...
That His History Proves...
That He’s Said Some Things...
That Were Seen As Racist... !?!

But Now He’s Seem...
As... Mister Clean...

WITHOUT Any Doom...
Or... MF Tunes... ?!?

Rest In Peace To That Man...
Cos’ His Loss Is Sad... !!!

But Sleepy Joe...
Seems Good To Go... !!!

But Is He Really Though... ?!?

Why... Because of Kamala... ???

People Need To Look Harder...
... At Her And Obama... !?!

Because The Question Remains...
About Political Names... ?!?

Aren’t All Politicians...
Trained To Be The SAME...
When It Comes To Race... ?!?

To Make BIG CLAIMS...
About What They’ll Do...
To... BALANCE The Scales...
And Make Things EQUATE...

When It Comes To How...
Things Will Go Down...
In Future Scenes...
When It Comes To Police...
And Blacks Being Free...
To Walk The Streets...
And Make Money...
Just Like White Peeps’...

But In Times Like THESE...
With A GLOBAL DISEASE... !!!

Surely It’s VACCINES...
That Will Be What Supersedes...
How Racism Feeds... ?!?

I Guess We’ll See... ???
But The Question Would Seem...

To Now... REALLY Be...
What’ll Make Us HEALTHY...
And Able To Fight Corona’s RISE... !!!

... It’s A Crazy Time... !?!

Where Gender Rights...
Have Already Been Signed...
As Being What’s Required...
In Working Environments...
And Further Afield....................

So I Guess That’s The Type of Equality...
That To Him Is In Fact A PRIORITY... ?!?

So Of Course If Your Black...
And Are Part of The Pack...
of... Alphabet Letters...
That Apply To Gender...

You’ll Be A Defender...
of... Good Old Joe... !!!

But The Question Remains...
About... OLD Joes’ CLAIMS...

As It Does About Race...
In This Modern Age... !!!!

Which Is A DISGRACE...
When You Think About It... !!!

Shouldn’t Being Racist...
Have Been Extinguished...
Quite A While Ago... ?!?

And That’s A Quote...
That Is... NO JOKE... !!!

Because Black Folks...
Have Suffered WOES...
And A Lot of NO GO’s...
That Election Votes...
HAVEN’T Seemed To Stop...
Like... Inequality Wrongs... !!!

Now I’m NOT Gonna Lie...
As An Older Black Guy...

Things Still DON'T Seem...
To REALLY Be Focussed...
...... On EQUALITIES..... !!!

There’s Much That’s BOGUS...
That Runs In Speech...
From Political Teams... !!!

And Too Many Blacks Seem...
To Be... Easily Pleased...
By Pretty Scenes At Ceremonies...
As Well As Poetry That Apparently Means...

That There Is NO Question...
That Things Will Get Better...
Now That Trumps Been Ejected...
From The Whitehouse Seat...
And May Be IMPEACHED...

For The Second Time... !?!

Well I’m The Type...
Who Chooses To QUESTION...

Instead of Think That Smiles...
And... FANCY Processions...

Prove That Black Lives...
Are Those That Really Matter...
Just Because of Chatter...
From Political Tribes...
Who Are Known To LIE... !!!

When It’s Clear That Chains...
Are STILL In Place...
Because Like Trump Said...
The Status Quo Has Been RESET...
With Biden Becoming US President... !!!

Now I’m NO Trump Fan... !!!

But Is Joe The Man...
Who’ll Take A Strong Stance...
When It Comes To Blacks...
When You Look At His Past... ?!?

Oh Let Me Guess...
Like His Friend B.O....

He’s Gonna Bring CHANGE...
Well That I’m Afraid...
Are Beliefs of Washed Brains... !!!

Because President Joe...
CAN'T Just STOP PAIN...
And The Type of STRESS...
That’s STILL In Place...
Just Like RACE HATE...
That’s STILL Here Today... !!!

I Believe That The Phrase...
That Comes To Mind...
As I End These Rhymes...

Is That...

“Things Do Change...
But They Remain The SAME.”

So When It Comes To Race...
And The Same Old Claims...
That Return Like PLAGUES...

The Last Thing That I’ll Say...

Is That... In My Brain...

... “ Questions Still Remain “...