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Aug 2017 · 1.5k
Keys To Your Body
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
3 am in the morning sweaty bodies colide
Time to take an intimate ride
If you survive love will arrive
Give me the keys to drive your curves
Three gears,
one is touch,
two is the rush
three is when we combust
Hold on tight, this is going to be
the ride of your life
Aug 2017 · 264
Everything
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
Give me everything
Your heart
your soul and more
Invest in our love and let it grow
Aug 2017 · 240
Naked Tree
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
You take my breath away
Expose me like a naked tree
As my leafs F-A-L-L
My hearts drops to the floor
Exposing my emotions raw
Deep in love I go
Losing my leafs,
exposing it all
Aug 2017 · 334
Unfinished Stories
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
No ending, no begining
Just a bottle of emotions shaken up
missing hearts
Lacking location
Was this love or lust
Losing signal, no sense of connection
Seeking validation in order to get satisfaction
Finding it at the end of empty bottles
Sometimes in a needle
Hoping for an end while crying for a sequel
Aug 2017 · 665
(in)Fidelity
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
She knew he would cheat on her  
As she placed her heart in his hands
Hoping he would hold it together
Hoping he would make their love greater

The more he kissed his next victim
The less he remembered her
Forgetting his vows
While infedlity became his reality
Comforting his soul which became empty
He risked it all, as she watched him fall in infidelity
Aug 2017 · 259
We Are All
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
We are all broken pieces
And the only thing holding us together is love

We are all lost souls
Seeking guidance from above
Aug 2017 · 633
Spread Love
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
Spread love not hate
Spread peace and share faith
For giving is the only form of recieving
Believing is the only way of achieving
We are humans, different in race but one in spirit, let's learn to inherit this love and share it
Aug 2017 · 1.5k
KKK
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
KKK
Hate filled minds
Living life in rewind
Drunk on the future so they wine
Crying about a past that had them powerful
Praying on hate and killing others less superior
Hating themselves for being more infrior
Hiding behind religion, saying it's God they serving,
what God you know condones killing, hating, and oppression

They serve a God with no vision
Wearing capes to hide their ambiguous faces
Yelling that they hate all races
These are the same co-workers who say they love all races
But behind closed doors
Pray to burning torches
Aug 2017 · 251
Rib Cage
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
She opened my left rib cage
and Made herself comfortable
It was her I was missing
With her here
I feel like we can now build a home
This body she now owns
She loved me
because she knew
I was her one and only True love,
pure like a dove sent from above
With love we dove in an ocean
Deep into our emotions
While our heart continued floating
I am glad that she is the one God let in my bruised left ribs
Aug 2017 · 401
Know
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
I know you know
I know how it feels to know the real you
you know
No one else will ever know
The real you we both know
Aug 2017 · 343
Let Me Love you
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
Let me love you till you can't breath any more
And when you need air,
I will suffocate you some more

For my desire is to leave you breathless
Powerless but less stressed
Let this love leave you all messed
***** in passion
But clean in soul
Aug 2017 · 330
You Messiah
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
Alive in your hands I am
Dead in flesh but woken in spirit
Struggling to face my burdens
This love of yours I want to inherit
Your love I will fight to earn
Trails and tribulations won't keep me away
Although I struggle to walk your way
You never put me away
You messiah
are a God who will always be higher
Becuase your love is like none other
Aug 2017 · 468
My Words
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
Naked I am when I write these words
I cast them on a screen

Hoping they find my readers ears
Cast out all of their fears
As they drown from all of their tears

This is just me and my words
I fear nothing but your ignorance
I pray for grace and forgiveness
My life once clean
Now a mess from unconfessed sins
I confess my insecurity
To the one who hopes the best for me

If you are to judge me
at least look into my words
And tell me you have never felt like me before
Your heart on the floor
Walked on by others who are more insecure

If you feel my pain
These words are now your words too
Aug 2017 · 1.2k
Congo
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
Roots of kings and queens
Subjected to slavey
Diamond filled graves
Digging deeper ending up ******
Government fornicating with corruption
Birthing an evil nation
War Everywhere for a nation going nowhere
Faith filled churches praying for peace
While the people are sleepless
Anger and pain is all they can release
Aug 2017 · 378
In Faith We Loved
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
She held my hands in prayer
Together we meditated on our future
I loved her like Christ loved gentiles
In faith we prayed in faith we loved
Together we grew, together we loved
I loved her faith more than I loved her
She loved my faith more than she loved me
In God we loved
In faith we loved
Aug 2017 · 273
Forgive
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
Before you forgive
Learn to give
For giving is the greatest way to receive
Aug 2017 · 557
Don't Go to Sleep Angry
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
Don't go to sleep angry
You will welcome anxiety
These thoughts could be scary
And leave you worried
But please don't go to sleep angry
In anger you find nightmares, overflowing tears
Past fears and unhealed scars
So don't go to sleep angry
Pray that God comforts your lonely soul
Tell him to take it all away
And heal you his way
So close your eyes and simply pray
He is only one call away
Aug 2017 · 274
Rich and Poor
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
Sleep is for the rich
The poor fornicate with nightmares
And cry heavy tears
Expose their deepest fear
Die by sharpened spears

The rich have their own fear
They fear to live
Afraid of freedom
Slaves to their possessions
They tide success around their necks
Chocking on lack of character
And the ability to be greater
Aug 2017 · 288
A Small Love Story
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
She was perfect
when she allowed herself to make mistakes
In her fall she found comfort in her mess
He was perfect when he allowed his insecurity to show
As she loved him gently and slow
She grew to love him for his flaws
and he grew to love her for letting her pain go
Together they consumed the stars
And watched their love glow
Aug 2017 · 185
Just Want to be Sure
Tuffy Mutombo Aug 2017
Our eyes meet
As our souls meet

This is fate
Could you handle this weight
Heavy burden, consumed of pain
A bleeding heart and a lonely soul
Will you fall for it all,
or will you love me and leave me
Like the rest of them
Running away from my pain
Taking my love for granted
Then coming back crying
Saying I'm all they ever wanted

By then I would of created a wall
Which my insecurity helped me build
Just so I can find my own security
Don't give me love promoted by ambiguity
I need to be sure
if you and me were meant to be
Jun 2017 · 509
Supposed to Love You
Tuffy Mutombo Jun 2017
I was supposed to love you
but you was not you
so I searched for you
while I lost who I wanted to be
by the time I found you
I lost me.. So now I search for myself
because I need love too
Jun 2017 · 465
Intentions
Tuffy Mutombo Jun 2017
I wrote this piece while trying to solve a riddle
different color of emotions like a bag of skittles
feeling yellow, green, purple but then end up feeling blue
they ask me who I am I say I have no clue
so they read my words and find me in my poetry
unpredictable I am, blind to false emotions
and numb to true intention
I choose to see the world with my third vision
love me now or fall victim to my words which leave you guessing
stuck in a maze I am amazed, at the pace my past loved my past
repeated emotions like my love had no intention
in class for 27 years and still haven't learned my lesson
Asking for more but subjected to be less then
Jun 2017 · 277
Peace
Tuffy Mutombo Jun 2017
I long for tranquility
while forging a reality
as my mind flirts with fantasy
I become blind to see that peace is just a dream
a dream which was never meant to be
captured in my nest of emotions
I occupy my mind with senseless motion
running away from my burdens towards peace
as peace runs away from me while it sees my burdens follow me
even peace has abandoned me
May 2017 · 312
Writers Block
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
I had something to write
But my mind couldn't let me write
It took away my right to write
It held me in prison
the guards were 26 letters I couldn’t put into words  
So in silence I sat, looking at these words with no meaning
My heart dying to define them
But my mind lacking the courage to write them
This writer’s block is a cancer
To which I can’t find an answer
As it happens just before I need to write these words
Stuck in an empty mind of a dead author
Want to advance but can’t go further    
I am a slave to these words and they are my master
Controlling me and forcing me to face my disaster
Until I find the words to write,
silence is what I will feed the minds of my readers
May 2017 · 365
Hopeless Souls
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
Hopeless souls dance with pain
while sleeping with depression
seeking sensation while blind to their destination
Death welcomes them with open arms
smiling while showing off its everlasting charm
Running from dreams while walking with nightmares
Regret gives them energy, as they ponder on past enemies
Breathing anger while feasting on bad memories
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
As my words connected to this paper
my thoughts got heavier
feeling the pressure to impress you  
I tried to describe your beauty
but my heart felt jealous and didn't let me
it held that feeling captive close to my soul
and placed my mind as the warden
captured in an emotionless planet

I slept with my feelings
and birthed depression
the pain of knowing that I love you
but fear to tell you
afraid of your reaction

I hold on to pieces of you
through this perfect lens is the image I have of you
your beauty and personal view
When I find the courage, I fear it will be too late
you will have left and found another lover  
Now I write these words to my thoughts of you
From my hearts point of view
I tried moving on but my soul still points at you
May 2017 · 769
Born Bad
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
Bad birth, Birthed a ******* baby
Born bad, born to be betrayed
Baggage badly backhanded beaten brutally
Born to be bullied, Before breathing beauty
Born to be bashed
A Barrier bouncing barbarian
Black blocks block beautiful behavior
Boiling beauty turns to a brutal beast  
Blocked brain banned from being the best
A bitter beast born bad bonded behind bigotry
Bombarded brain brutally beaten before birth
May 2017 · 271
Slaves
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
They knew to be new
They had a lot to gain again
All eight hundred thousand eighty eight of them ate
Their sorrows and pain  
To make weight they had to wait
Color coded skin shades sold with dollar signs
Dark ones known as field slaves
Light ones known as house slaves
Women ***** by their masters
And whipped after
Scars left on their bodies as reminders
Given last names like Washington and Lincoln
Former Kings and Queens who lost their crowns
Shipped in boats sold by the tons
Black bald boys bawled tears of pain  
Black mothers and fathers with wisdom to be authors
had to settle to be unpaid workers chained to shackles  
Knowledge oppressed and robbed of their mental ability
To survive they relied on creativity
Singing soul music just to get through slavery
May 2017 · 419
Inside It's Cold
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
Smile in the face of adversity
while inside it takes the best of me
tragedy has become my new reality
Inside its cold, my heart frozen
I sleep on a hundred roses while hanging on a thousand crosses
my past meets my future
beauty and pain all sound the same
they all die together
I vanish along with them
Serenade me with pleasure and sweet harmony
as I die a bitter death
dying to find out who I am supposed to be
Looking in the mirror as I face my worst enemy
Inside its cold and Ice seems warm to me
May 2017 · 666
Cancer
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
Deadly cells find comfort in my body
They grow and destroy my mind
inside I slowly die, my soul turns into a graveyard  
this pain robs me of energy
cancer oh how I hate what you have done to me
you infect me with agony that spreads like the ocean
touching every corner of my body
leaving me to fight this pain
which makes me feel deserted in a world full of many
Inside its cold and lonely, outside feels so empty
I fought you for years, gave you so many tears
as you flirted with my fears  
cancer what do you want from me
if it is my life you seek, my life you won't get
for that I will fight till the end of time
I will not give up, for I am a survivor
I was born to be stronger, hold on longer
Fight this battle with the love I get from others
Cancer I will overcome you one way or another
for I am a survivor
This piece was written for a co-worker of mine, to help her get through her battle with cancer. Thank you all for the support and reaching out to me.
May 2017 · 774
Speak From Thy Heart
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
Speak from thy heart
so that thy body can rid its desires of being lonely
Capture thy imagination and serenade my naked soul
If summer holds on
let her know that for autumn to come we all have to fall
Just speak from thy heart
and maybe Picasso might bless you with the gift of art
You have Mona Lisa's eyes and Helen Keller's Sight
So be blind to judgement, but open to love  
Try to see the unseen and feel the numb
Lose your mind and find it next to my heart,
because love makes us all insane
Speak from thy heart and maybe you might start to love again
Let me be your medicine and rid you of your pain
May 2017 · 790
Sorry
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
Sorry my past caught up to me
memories so rough
they got the best of me
I am a victim of my past choices
decisions made that now leave me voiceless
Sorry to include you in my life that now leaves you choice less
You are now a piece of history I wish to rewrite
A battle I wish I could re-fight
A light I wish I could keep bright
But now you leave me as we fall apart
Take pieces of my heart
Maybe in the moonlight
you will remember me underneath the skylight
Remember times I touched your sweet heart
if it is in you
I wish you could still fight for a love that was so right
we met at the wrong time
If I could go back I would of made you mine before I met you
I'm sorry that in this life of mine you had to be a part of a love with an expiration date
May 2017 · 328
2 Lovers
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
I was you
and you were me
together we fought our greatest enemy
pain and misery
Got high on love and fantasy
and low on reality
We were two lovers
we couldn't live without one another
I wished we would never lose two letters in the word lovers
The (L and S)
Without those two letters it would be (over)
Hoping this love would grow old like rust
Placing a (T) in front of the word rust
and building (Trust)
we were just two lovers
who couldn't see life without each other
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
My hands left marks on your body
I never meant to leave marks on your body!!
Place pain on your body
I see you cry, but I sit in darkness lonely
You were my veins to my dark heart
Now My soul is aching my heart is breaking
I feel your body shaking
fear comforts you and misery wipes your tears
twisted you are, emotions expressed while my fists pressed on your face
leaving prints
with every hit, I get a flashback to when I was a child and powerless
this is dark words, poetry through the eyes of an abuser
a heart user, emotion killer, love hater, pain enforcer
it is I who dares to care
I hurt you before
why do you return to me like a wrong address placed on an envelope
coming back for more
like the first time wasn't enough
poetry through the eyes on an abuser who was once a victim
I guess pain is just a cycle, what we feel is what we give
Inflicting pain is my only way of letting you know I love you
Love through the eyes of an Abuser
May 2017 · 516
Hello Poetry
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
Who knew that there was a society of writers
Blind authors, who embrace one another
Hello poetry a bank of words mounted on a site for all to see
Hidden truths in words so powerful, emotions expressed like a waterfall
Hello Poetry to some it is a remedy
to others its pure therapy
Hello Poetry a book for all to see
tears shed full of empathy simple words fill spaces that are empty
These words I display would of been buried with me
But this place allowed me to fornicate with these metaphors  
and birth words so beautiful,
these words now live in the minds of readers and silent poetry lovers  
As you read my expressed emotions
remember that Hello Poetry let me nurture my emotions
before letting you see a part of me no one has ever seen
May 2017 · 502
Mistakes (Missed Takes)
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
Chances are priceless
missed takes are limitless
avoidance is countless
Like stop reading this and count less Opportunities you missed due to being scared of mistakes
more lines in this poetry than the ones you seen on a glass table
finger nails full of *******
brain seduced to love highs and avoid lows
running from life's heavy blows
took chances now drown in your consequence
white face, black lips, short tips, long dreams soon to be nightmares
mistakes will never know their true potential if you never make them
chances are hidden in mistakes so go ahead and embrace them
opportunities are golden but you are comfortable with rubies
scared to mess up so you look down and never face up
sleeping with nightmares afraid to wake up
May 2017 · 1.4k
Months
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
January was never in a hurry, relationships seemed a bit too scary  
February always left me feeling lonely
March left scars and forced me to act needy
April lied and tricked me to fall in love with fools like you
No I actually liked you  
I started Idolizing fantasies
blind to see that it was us who were never meant to be  
May came around and exposed what we pretended to be
June made us lay under covers, and lie that we were lovers
July made you lie that you found another lover
It was me you wanted but couldn't find me
So you looked for me in others
All you found was broken hearts full of scars
Bleeding for your attention, while lacking complete satisfaction  
August had you feeling uncomfortable, heat in your veins
Pain in your seduced membrane, just smile and stay in the main frame
Pretend like you feel no pain
September had you missing me, dancing with your memories
I was love and you acted like you never needed me
October had you feeling lonely, while your soul became empty  
November left your heart feeling colder, while your ego got smaller
In December I was all that you could remember
May 2017 · 422
14 Days
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
Never needed empathy
that comes with promises that are empty
scared to let you in
my soul has grown thin
false hope is the new drug I overdosed on
I need optimism to be my therapist
because I cry to doubt and it gives me no answers
worried about my future while sleeping with my past
I am 14 days to move on
Too weak to be strong
stuck in a maze dying to be alone
Lonely is my heart
scared from my past scared to move on
May 2017 · 1.8k
Immigrant
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
Seeking refuge
only to end up being used
cheap labour, low wages
slammed in small cages
stereotyped due to my difference
I pray for deliverance
government blames our growth on their lack of security
just all lies hiding behind their deepest insecurity
afraid to see me be who I was meant to be
blind to your scrutiny,
I search for liberty
in a land where I get robbed of dignity
immigrant is what they label me
May 2017 · 1.9k
My Addiction
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
You are the drug of my choice
the strength in my voice
a thief in the night
you stole my heart on sight
robbed me of sight so I can only love you with my soul
I gave you my all and more  
I sacrificed my imagination and filled it with your sensation
Addicted to you I am
like a an addict is to their needle of joy
I get a great high when I am around you
a depressive low when I am not with you
I am addicted to your flaws
in love with your insecurities
you bring out the best in me
every kiss is as powerful as every breath I take
I need your touch like the veins that connect to my heart
without that I am like an empty vessel with no purpose
You are simply my addiction and I will never seek treatment
In you I find therapy, you have taken the best of me
May 2017 · 211
I Sleep In Two Beds
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
I was happy when I was told that I would have another bedroom
One more room, more toys, more chances to make noise
More everything, more fun
But all of a sudden I lost my joy  
These parents of mine, decided it was time
Time for what? Time to call it a quite
Mom cant stop crying
Dad knows he crossed the line
He has been lying, she has been lying
They both have been lying about the love the they claim to have
In my young world, I blame myself like I was the one who caused the separation
I cry in desperation for this not to happen  
I know that for the rest of my life I will feel unwanted, forgotten and worthless
Treated like property, shared on weekdays and weekends
Shipped like merchandise  
I sleep in two beds
Now I realize that more is bad, more leaves me sad
More hurts my mom and dad
More destroyed our house
On holidays we argue, aren't those supposed to be happy days  
Now Christmas is considered fight night
Since my parents have been divorced
I have felt like I have been cursed
When they separated they did it out of spite and hate
Now to court I go, so they can debate custody
One argues that the other is unfit to take care of me
Now I feel like I have made them enemies
As they treat me like property
I feel like I am not loved properly
May 2017 · 750
Starvation
Tuffy Mutombo May 2017
Empty stomachs speak languages only the mind can hear
starving children make sad melodies
while mothers and fathers stomachs sleep empty  
living life while facing internal tragedy
they eat and breath poverty
while their countries exploit those working
victims of a broken nation
beggars make more income than those working
poverty is their new identity
starvation is their reality
Apr 2017 · 329
Sunday Morning
Tuffy Mutombo Apr 2017
Church bells ring
the lord calling you to bring your unclean soul
he that forgives all
is ready to wash you clean
take away all of your flaws
Sunday morning love is in the air
He that loves you is ready to fill your void
Protect you so you won't be destroyed
take away your emptiness
and fill you with holiness
clean your mess
while you say your grace
pray for forgiveness
he even listens to the smallest requests
Apr 2017 · 343
5 a.m. on the moon
Tuffy Mutombo Apr 2017
Looking at these stars
Wondering where you are

You woke me in my dreams
and invited me to the moon

You took my mind far
but I feared showing you these tears
I bandaged my own scars
but you opened them and bandaged them again
Hoping I healed to the sound of your heartbeat  

5 a.m. on the moon we dance with our struggles
While hiding from our sorrows
You told me to be quite so I don't wake the sun
because you feared that my soul would burn
and this dream would end  

You bought my heart with your attention and exposed me to the moonlight
Took my sight, and made my love blind

On this moon I float my hope your way
hoping it changes my nightmares to happy tears
Apr 2017 · 391
Cold Summers
Tuffy Mutombo Apr 2017
The summer breeze seduces my face
Inside I die for your embrace
you asked for space, so I gave you an empty universe
These cold summers leave me with mixed emotions
Afraid of feeling lonely while I hide from your embrace
Depression pumping blood through my anxious heart
Its scared to love, because it fears being torn apart
My nightmares live on an avenue, called I dream of having you
Confused between wanting you and needing you
Staying with you or leaving you
These cold summers have me afraid of losing you
While I have faith in keeping you
This piece is for people who can't make a decision to stay in a relationship or leave. Cold summers: mean you don't know how you feel.. But you have to make a choice as to why you want to feel the way you feel.
Apr 2017 · 283
You & Coffee
Tuffy Mutombo Apr 2017
Lips pressed on the cup which gives me energy
With every sip I get a sense of warmth which touches me  
You are my addiction
You give me the definition of complete satisfaction  
I wake up to the thought of you looking at the sunrise
as I await for you to open your eyes
I dream of the love that rests in your eyes  
The smell of you brewing up in the kitchen invades my nostrils
giving me energy, allowing me to feel like I can conquer all
I awake to the sight of beauty
You and coffee
This poem could be read from the top down, or from the bottom up. It is a piece that coffee lovers and hopeless romantics will love. Enjoy and thank you for reading.

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