Where are the children
There's no running or shouting
Children of the block

Always been cool, a cool head, and cooler heart
Easy to fool, Not to cruel, sometimes comes apart
Wall to wall, Often on call, A urban drug outlet

Covids breakin contracts, anarchy attracts, broken lights
Fights at night, fires in sight, moneys tight, famines in flight
Proletariat burn bright, Blue heart beats turn the crows quiet

I understand, so I know where to stand, and
salt the land, axe the clan, switch the plan
Iron and sand, tax the man, stitch over the pain

I)

Our precious months have none for charity,
Yet isolation; do by months donate
My waning form, for solidarity;
Absent of sickness, nearer distant fate.
My end seems meek and much less horrible,
Than if your eyes did scorn what time does crease
Upon my skin, less white adorable,
For yours of beauty stilled, mourn my decrease?
No! Worry not, for sweet your sweetheart's eye:
Abundant in immortal glory's stage,
When paired with you no longer I am I
But us! Now five years more, ten gone my age.

Yet that decrease fear covids added
much;
Corona's law: times two without your touch.

(II)

Law bid's my better self from me to part,
Across the sick laid world in viral war,
If wonder where's my best? Let check your heart;
Where all my vibrancy and ferver store,
Albeit are my eyes that make the artist,
And art is love when beauty forms the muse;
Is you that map my beauty true; sweet chartist!
But you had only mapped your own infuse.
When this abundance has your dearests seen;
True mind's deduction knows what bears without;
A kingdom ruled in vigil for a queen;
Steadfast a lesser king, still king devout.

My love - my best you have and best to know:
Pity my least, when most without your glow.

(III)

Oh lovely one, tho' time's unsavory,
Your privilege from it's change and creasing blade;
Deprives from time: decay's own slavery,
From your sweet youth that sweetest form has stayed.
What deity does guard your beauty's jewel?
Whom favored graces do continue more;
In time that sweeter mood will turn to cruel:
An infamy well known from those whom wore.
Ah! When that fearsome wand does show your wear,
Never me fooled; yes grey would hue your white
And happen all the while before my stare;
But love shan't change, nor day appear as night

Nor heart could grey nor love turn older stale'd.
If proved these false; mere proved my pulse had failed.

(IV)

I tend this lockdown'd day in unmade bed,
Then greet the icy morn with bitter brew
But drown in distant news of many dead;
I gasp for foreign lives I never knew.
How near to you! Thus near my sacred stone;
Beholder of my love what love there bears,
If comfort's found beneath your chested bone,
Is mine revealed; a love when all else tears.
Ah! Meager seems my loneliest of lines,
When other loves have costlier of loss,
For ours shall turn when 'rona's force resigns;
Back to our hearted bridge at lover's cross,

But thought the pain if you succumbed the worse
Does think my end by body, soul, in hearse!

What happening to this earth,
I thought all lives matter,
White black brown we all need each other,
We need to stop fighting,
We need to unite in one manner,
We all should be respected,
Under one united banner.

Life's to short to be waring with one another,
Taking on the beef that was made by our fourfathers,
Rioting the streets to prove a point to our brothers,
What about the tears that is coming from our mother's.

Look at this earth we all live with each other,
I've got neighbours and friends of all creeds and colours,
We all go for a drink with one another,
And when the drinking done we get a kebab from our Turkish brother.

In the morning I get a coffee that comes from my Brazilian brother,
I go to work in a taxi from my Indian brother,
I get my hair cut nice from my Italian brother,
And my friends spits bars he's my Jamaican brother.

See when all this covids done we gunna need each other,
To rebuild this world for our sons and our mother's,
We need to realise that we all need to be together,
Only we can make the change and unite forever.

When we get cut we all bleed like each other,
When we are ill we all cry for our mothers,
When will we realise we are the same as one and another,
We just need to know that colours do not matter.

So weather your white black brown or a Chinese brother,
Please show some respect to all creeds and colours,
A new day is coming if we hold on tight to one another,
Let's kick out the nonsense all together.

hey hon
how’s your morning going?

this unit is like a disaster movie
2 brain deaths
2 self-inflicted gunshots to the head
2 covids (if only there were a vaccine—
oh ****, there is)
1 paraplegic
1 drunken assault
and a very ******* fellow
who was gored by a bull

let’s go out to eat tonight

tomorrow when I wake up maybe I'll feel better
grab the needle and the thread and pull myself together
triple knot and burn that ****
yea cauterize the wounds
but the memory will last through many moons
and these scars will last forever
through whatever
I endeavor
sometimes it just seems
like I'm falling apart at the seams
like an old sweater
and I just wanna take my flaws and bury them like treasure
you'd think I was a diamond cause what I feel is pressure
some days I just feel lonely
looking in the mirror
I don't even know me
who's the dude in this reflection
it's not clearer
upon inspection
and the darkness that dwells within spreads like a **** infection
we're worried about objecting
this election
and covids got us stressing
so worried about others we spend no time correcting
our own imperfections
we're just floating in the water
we're surrounded by the sharks
just trying to stay afloat as we're ripped to parts
a nation divided
throw me off this plane cause I don't feel united
we use to stand together now I just feel alone
jotting thoughts into this phone
cause the crowds
can't gather here
let me **** up more please
hold my beer
as I sink in the misery
that's hitting harder than a twisted tea
and I just spread the hurt
sitting on my thrown I'm the emperor of dirt
you can have it all cause there's nothing left to give
this isn't what was wanted not how were supposed to live
the pain and stress makes us wanna collapse
and we're just hiding it underneath this mask

So you don't want to vaccinate
You doubt the lies on your plate
But what of the truth you hate
Of skin turned greyer than slate

Grandfather, grandmother didn't hear a word
"Covids a sham" into a casket they slammed
Ever faster death does gather its all around
It abounds yet gets erased by radiowaves sound

Adults can't behave, to wants remain a slave
Maskless and unashamed not one is saved
Double down in those tasteless ways
Half a million dead dropped like flies

Still a toast is in order as progress is made
One casket at a time feel the change
Jobs open up and now I'm getting paid
Wonder why everyone is so afraid

Mostly we lose dregs who don't know when to fold
Costly now to lose so many empty heads to a "cold"
On hospital beds thinking shoulda woulda coulda
While the doctor thinks "I ****** told ya"

Breath your last, lungs in tatters, whats the matter
Maybe everyone isn't mad as hatters
Scientist in agreement with doctors
Riddle me that conspiracy theorizers  

Well I'm tired of being sad so happily I say goodbye
Let go and go in peace even if it was all a lie
So just sleep, leave your loved ones behind
Paul said it best "live and let die"