I would fly
But I've misplaced my wings
Yet they are still pushing me
To jump off the edge
I wouldn't make it very far
Even with a running start

Jaded moms
Blaming ****
For all their kids
Problems
And where is the
Dad
Again?

Walking over the homeless
Like everything's fine
Like they're just a part of the landscape
Like a crack in the asphalt
Running over our minds
With useless thoughts of grandeur
Everyone wants to be the best
Not seeing their brother and sister on the street

There's food in the store
Doctors in the hospital
Vacant rooms in the buildings
So what's with the manufacturing
Of worry, desperation, and poverty??

Sadly this dude
Stumbled down the street
I lost a lover and a friend
What he said to me
Not one in the same
Just one of each

If given the power
What would you do with it
Hold it close
Reign it over those around you
Abuse to your advantage
Or would you give it up
Cash out and disperse
Spread it out

Do you desire power
To hoard it
Or give it up

What's the point of these shoes
When you won't run the track
I signed up for the marathon
But I doubt I'll be back

I took her
To a special spot
So we could share
In each other's embrace
Some place private
Away from the clubs
Noise and havoc

Happy New Year
Red red
Everything

Others may like you
But do you like yourself
That is the question
They failed to tell
String it along
Like one huge game
Play the right moves
Say the right things
To uncover the truth
Just hold your breath
Others may leave you
Just try your best

You were busy
When you invited me over
So I slept
While you worked
You woke me up
In the middle
Of the night
Before you joined me
To drift off to sleep

If I can't
Find through
You
Then I guess
I'll find through
Some fill
I think the
River is the
Fastest way to
Get to love
Now
I delete
Words I
Can't say

The heart is pure
Containing the love
It is born with

As time passes
The mind is distanced
From the heart

The body grows
Distorts and contorts
Moving further from the heart

It is the truth that reconnects
The person to the heart
For them and others

The scarf caused confusion
To his ignorant thoughts
Consumed by hatred and violence
He rang out eight shots
The media danced
In a pathetic flurry
Talking of "parking spots"
And "those Muslim students"
First things first
It was a hate crime
The killer had been to their house
More than one time
He condescended
He threatened
He talked down
Like bigots do
Yet this is something
The media tends to ignore
Let's focus on something less tense
Like a nice little parking spot
Next it must be said
That these were Americans
Just because they're not white
Doesn't mean they weren't born here
Yet let the media dance continues
Label them simply as "Muslims"
It's easy to forget
When it's just an "other"
So the story obscures
While these three young people are dead
Will Obama come to their defense
Or start another war instead

What's love got to do with it
Especially after a few drinks
The airs thick with it
Been in and out of too much
Confusion of one over the other
Let time tell what we mean
To one another
It's all here and gone
What's love got to do with it

I danced in the sun
So long I got burned
I slunk into the shade
As night overtook day
My features blurred
Obscured by the dark
I crawled to the switch
And pulled out the wires

Empty bodies
Drift around lifeless
A vacated illusion of apocalypse
Stuffed with a numb hollow void
The sheeps skin
For beleaguered wolves
A watch for the innocent
Nose kept to the ground
The lifeless
Walk
To the edge of their existence
Look over
And dive

On Valentine's day so it happened
Their lips for the first time did meet
Wrapped in his arms they slept
The next morning a goodbye to the cheek
So began a rocky path
But a path to go down nonetheless
Both suspicious of the other
For others they did undress
To her a close friend
That they did both share
To him a close lover
Someone already there
So a battle was fought
In silence of the heart
One of jealousy and contempt
And unadulterated thoughts
That battle became
The wickedest of affairs
A contract signed in blood
A relationship of errors

Here I am
Staring at a portrait of myself
What has time painted
What memories are to come

Slinking over the
Mountain
Slow breath
A slow step
Thick fur mats
Hunched shoulders
Moonlight catches
The back
Of the
Beast

Man it's been so long since we've hung out
Too many weeks pass my minds got doubt
It gets harder to tell what you believe in
What you sendin to hell
I just try and get in touch with you
No cell phone no phone calls
Things get confused
But here I am
Still praying for you
Still begging for you
Are you gonna return
Does the difference make a difference
Have you completely fell off
I just ask one thing
I don't care what it is
Come back in one piece

Sitting here
I can wait all day for you
Yet someone's uninterested
In the particular parts
Of everyday life
That don't beat back and forth
Like your clock
Or schedule
I know you just got home
I was here the whole time

Through the city streets I fly
Cutting in and out of buildings
Alley ways and one way streets
The fog thin blankets the city silver
I am masked in this concrete visage
If not careful the city streets will blind you
But I work to peel back this mystery
Of myself and where I came from

A silent emptiness
To rock us to sleep
The phone holds meaning
Only to which it is given
Popping up
Randomly like in bloom
It's hard to pin you down
I want you to see
Painted like a picture
I've kept smudge free

Wet streets
Buildings crumble under humans
Two
Who cannot decide
Thousands must
Die

Where are you
Have I left you out?
Are you hiding
Running
Escaping
Wanting to escape
At least give me a clue
Something give me anything
Let me know what's going on
Are we still friends
Where are you

Maybe the first
Child gets overloaded
With expectations
Extra weight
Carried
Not felt by
Brothers and sisters

The City in the 70s
Things painted diversely
Yet discrimination runs deep
A mother out to buy ice cream
English a foreign notion
Coming to the store
One pint of ice cream at the counter
Unable to converse
Chinese not understood
"That will be $50 he says"
Takes the money
Shamelessly
As she leaves
Ice cream for her son
Her son who did then weep
The character of a person
He knew
Defined by their actions
The seeds that you sow
Are the ones that you shall reap

I waited away
For that time of day
Where you would disappear from me
Be on your way
The feeling of Fall
The leaf on the branch
The gusts of wind
The fallen dance
When will you be back
Like a dream never ending

Fill up the liver
Fill it till it drowns
And eats through the organs
Fill up the mind
Turn up the tv and drown
**** off all braincells
Fill up the lungs
Hot with smoke
Until they collapse or disappear
Fill up the cup
Overflowing with coffee
Revved up 24/7 until heart attack

Put the ciggarettes down
Pick the **** up
Let your lungs heal
The mind filled with poisons
No more
Cleanse and reflect
The addiction
Addiction
Addiction
Is manufactured
3x as addictive
Guaranteed
For you to lose money health
Put them down
The singing box
Opens like a juke box
But you always know the song
It's one of skull and bones
Let's pick up the green music
Play loud
Smoke on
Without the death of those around you
The love will surround you
Let it in
The herb is good
The smoke is good
Blow like trees

Passing you by
Coffees shops
Feeling ashamed
Too scared
To come up
Years later
Look same
Feel different

Laughter
Escapes your lips
Like a secret
Never to be told again

To get love
We must learn
How to receive it
To gut love
We must learn
How to deceive it

No more
Wasted breath
No more
Hidden messages
This what I think
This what I feel
My body like fire
Burn burn burn

I hope to stay true
Stay glued to something
At least one thing
I can be honest about
Completely
True to myself
True to you

Authors of the Great Law of Peace
Bringing hundreds of years of peace
To a league composed of six great nations
The tenets of peace and unity confirmed in the Great Law of Peace
Were realized and studied by the founding fathers
And many ideas adopted directly into the United States Constitution

Ideas of:
Freedom of speech
Freedom of religion
Separation of powers
Checks and balances
Government of, by, and for the people
Three branches of government
Women's Council (Supreme Court)

Brought into the fold of a young budding nation
Only hoping to grasp the truth of democracy expanded by the Iroquois

The soul bird city sleeps
While my dawn dust eyes peek
Cracking open as my window
Light flooding out of my eyes
Dream-scaped colors illuminate

I guess time is never wasted
I hope
Regretted days
Days wasted away
Even if a whole life felt wasted
The time mattered
It was important
It couldn't of happened any other way
It ripples further than us

The further down this path I get
The more lonesome I feel
Friends begin to get stripped away
Slipping through cracks in our lives
Family is dwindling
Either departed or moved away
My body even turns on itself
Breaking down healing slowly
To find space in this world some turn to jobs
But even those are few and far between
Though the road is lined with beautiful flowers
The concrete I walk on is cold hard
In my mind I do take refuge
But imagination can only get you so far

Taking time to think over
These thoughts
What do i really
Wanna do
A little too much
Sometimes not enough
I guess that  I just give
What I can
And see
What you do

A radical
Bringing untamed justice
Wherever he step foot
Adamantly pursuing equality
He instilled faith in humanity
So that we may continue his struggle
It is far from over
It's any everyday fight
Today even mirrors
Many of Dr. Kings plights