"unshackle" poems
Born a King
Born a Queen
Born a Slave
Born into freedom only to be
Caged
Shackled bound confined
Scared
Caged
Far from the Motherland
A people
Made sculpt molded
In her image
Brown earth
Yellow sun
Mahogany dark
Like the stone unyielding
Proud like the Kilimanjaro
Minds open like the plains
Of the Serengeti
Free
Only to be brought here
Caged
Used abused overwhelmed exhausted
Caged
Thrown away when aged like broken toys
Broken minds broken spirits afraid of our own image
Caged
Here we stand today with all the technology the worlds knowledge at our fingertips
Caged
Brothers’ sisters’ fathers sons’ mothers’ daughters’ families ripped apart
Torn at the seams no village to be seen
Caged
We are at war with violence ignorance rage
A horrible legacy indeed ……Caged
Our once proud people afraid to face the future
We are creating to our shame the same source of fear ignorance and rage
In our most valuable assets our jewels our destiny
Our children
Our vision
In our cage we destroy each other
We are racist in our own race
We defame denounce deplore each other
Are we comfortable complacent satisfied in our cage?
Our history tell us no our descendents tell us we shouldn’t be
They say to us we have no limits boundaries restrictions
They found the keys to the cage
They urge us they encourage us they push us in the direction of the stars
Come out of your comfort zones
Embrace hold tight pull it in
The spirits of Our Kings Our Queens Our history
Teach if you can learn
Learn if you can teach
Open minds hearts souls
Receive your freedom
Unlock the
Cage.
Free! Liberate! Unshackle!
Black history is not a month it’s your life.
Mar 31, 2013
Mar 31, 2013 at 4:26 PM UTC
Why are you holding back?
If only you could let go...
Hard times would get easier to handle, if you just embrace the natural flow.
I speak to you with a book wide open, from lines that give light to mind. I am on a journey just the same as you are, so not all that I say may be right. And as life goes on, I'll gain more sight, and know that I was wrong. Yet when the feeling comes from the marrow, I know I've held it in too long, and know it is time to write.
Take those kinks out of your head and give life to what was dead and become resurrected. O sister, we connect telepathically, and O brother, I know you know there is something within us that most can not perceive. There is more of us than the grains of sands in the ocean; our hair is like that of the waves upon the sea. Just open your minds eye to who you are, let go and live naturally.
But how can you know if you don't search, tell me how can you remember if you don't seek?
It's time to erase the lies and unshackle the mind to the truth of your own history.
Jul 25, 2016
Jul 25, 2016 at 7:14 AM UTC
1
You will not find a more willing participant
To join you on this serendipitous adventure of luck.
We will merrily hijack the trippy ride of Helios
And daringly traverse the long way around the sun.
We will sleep together in the heart of the meadow
Where sun-dappled leaves and rabbits frolic in jolly romps.
We will swim in salmon-filled rivers and go upstream
Where many-coloured coins glint upon the surface.
We will not curb our enthusiasm to conceal the truth
Fixing Nyx, we share unbridled passion upon the moon.
We will cradle each other's fears within parched lunar craters
While the world waxes on the rim of existence, our love will not wane.
Let us be more than willing to unshackle the mind
To explore lost messages in a bottle on the high seas.
2.
Yet I'm willing to journey through the darkness even
With eyes closed
In an attempt to reach you
To find you.
I am so willing to play the fool advocating love
Than to be over cautious and lose out big time.
So, I am willing you ....to let drop the scales
'Twud be astounding to have a willing....you
Willing us to deflect this way untimely contretemps
And placing us this day upon an unbroken tide beyond.....
S T, 8 May 2013
May 7, 2013
May 7, 2013 at 6:28 PM UTC
Liberate your soul
And unshackle your mind.
You'll be amazed
At the beauty you shall find.
Dec 20, 2016
Dec 20, 2016 at 1:58 PM UTC
The crescent moon has been sighted
Lantern of hope has been ignited.
Doors of mercy have been opened
And the devils have been chained.
It is the month,
Where clusters of sin await repentance
And good deeds worth are multiplied.
The month
In which we abstain from food
From dawn till dusk;
Empty stomachs
But tongue heavy from thikr.
A month
Enlightened with Allah's vast mercy
And extreme prosperity,
Tasting rewards
And bathing in immense blessing.
So choose to
Break mouldy habits
Reform the fabrics.
Reboot your entity
And Recharge your faith.
Choose to strengthen the backbone of your lives;
The pillars of Islam.
Recite the book that has been bonded with threads of faith
and encrusted with pristine words of Allah.
Choose to unshackle yourself
from the blackening shackles;
Untangle from messy mirage of the world
entwined with your wrist
And braid it into ladders to heaven.
Choose to join congregation at prayers
To pray to Allah seeking his affinity
Asking for forgiveness and pray for agility.
Choose to handle tough times with sincerity
And dig faith in one another.
For strength and forgiveness
can be found under his love
And this can be the month
That can bring you a step closer to Allah.
Jun 5, 2018
Jun 5, 2018 at 3:21 AM UTC
You think you love them and so you give
Body and spirit and this mystical soul
You open your arms and your ***** and your
Defenses are disarmed
For this is living and this is life and this is transcendence
You think I love this person and so you unshackle
Unfettered you give and the spirit is lifted
The drugs of *** and love and temporary commitment
Mix in your arterial pathways changing you for the better?
It is beyond anything else and is chased with much vigor
What else is there you wonder?
Chasing the high that makes you feel accepted and connected
and finally alive.
Sure it ends and the withdrawal is miserable
But who cares when life is lived so vibrantly?
Who says the price is not worth the pleasure?
Apr 1, 2014
Apr 1, 2014 at 9:04 AM UTC
Chained,
here,
while you suffer,
I am safe,
while you wait,
I can plan
I won't let them,
get us again,
I'll be ready,
You'll be safe,
I'll unshackle you,
and I'll be unchained
May 1, 2014
May 1, 2014 at 12:30 PM UTC
-A Psalm Of Johnson
Oh, how I long to rid myself of this thorn in my flesh,
For long has my spirit been captive in depression's mesh.
But no remedy on earth can unshackle my despair,
Am I forever doomed to be haunted by this nightmare?
Apr 20, 2021
Apr 20, 2021 at 12:46 AM UTC
You are beautiful,
You are strong,
You are more than the blade you're holding against your wrist.
So drop it.
You are more than those bitches' whispers
and those ***** catcalls.
Don't ever doubt your worth
Because you are better than the picture you've painted in your head.
You are the best version of yourself
And now is the time of your life.
Get out there, set yourself free
Unshackle your feet from the chains that drag you down.
You are beautiful and you are not alone.
Jan 29, 2018
Jan 29, 2018 at 9:22 PM UTC
i've given birth to a inhumane creature
breathing in mustard gas, breathing out fire
touching everything with hands like lightning
a wilted flower that surrendered to the deep cold
shredding hearts like paper with an unshakable anger
smelling fear in you, never letting myself get near you
delicate and proud, like a rose, you glisten and i rot
how can you fix something that's almost irreversible
how do you reverse a cycle that's been going for months
i'm blending into the wall of the past regrets you created
masses of failures you've been through and threw away
but i never left, i always kept my promise to you
i have to lay your face
to rest
to rest
to rest
to rest
like a recording, playing over and over like it's taunting me
like a ghost that's been locked away, ready for the haunting
but i can't do it, dreams interrupt and ravage my troubled mind
desolate in my own mind, and i'm sleeping in this prison ward
harvest the love from my heart and unshackle my bones from this room
i've illuminated in my faith and rose above the fervent grudge i've held
detritus strikes at the dawn, and turns the moon into a cold glare
and i know i stare but you were the first beautiful thing i ever had
and i know you don't like me, but can't you stare back and see the beauty
i'm not the monster you believe i am
-kra
Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 5:54 PM UTC
On a clear day, I envy upon sight of cumulus clouds. Billowing, Drifting, Shifting. Floating to and fro vast landscapes in its glorious white state. A fluff of wondrous properties, perched effortlessly above in Stratospheric realm. I yearn to uproot with thee. To unshackle me from the iron ball and chain on my every limb. To float me above from this maze of a land. To lift me from my dull perspective that exists only in left and right, forward and back. My Sherpa, I beg thee to guide me around jagged alpine rocks, through oceanic stretches, above the skyscrapers in my hometown, towards unseen horizons and magnificent views, so that I may per chance witness the meaning of life. In return, I offer my soul as a gift: to form with the essence of thee. Though I know, my naive and loveless character would only taint your color with amorphous grey. Perhaps one day, I can billow, drift, and shift with thee.
Dec 16, 2013
Dec 16, 2013 at 9:45 PM UTC
1.
Do you know, I'm coming undone
And did you notice, I'm coming round less?
Did you ever see, me hardly at your door
Then, I'm already waiting to leave?
Chorus:
We used to fit so well together
But now, we're drifting far away
We were too busy to see...us
Come undone.
2.
You didn't see my threads come undone
Too busy tallying your brownie points!
You used to be a shining star
Then again, that was so long ago.
3.
Trying to learn what the ox cannot do
And that is to unshackle its heavy load.
Drummed in the guilt, weary and sad
Could never manage it all, had come undone.
4.
Have you any idea of the many times
I've tried to call you, with my courage undone
So, how can one tell when the time is right
To take a chance in life and make that change?
Sometimes, we learn only too well!
S T, 19 April 2013
Apr 19, 2013
Apr 19, 2013 at 10:08 AM UTC
Here is just another thought
Going down the stream,
Just another thought.
Leaking from a tap
With the label "purity"
Just another trap
The obsessive mind gullibly bites the lure,
Obscured by clouds connections,
Concealing the large picture.
How every blast creates a reaction!
Panic attacks to draw the attention.
Where’s the crack in the grand ***** wall,
So we can strike down the reservoir?
Diverting the river that must belong to all
Before our eyes - wider worlds shrinking small;
Cradled by the uniformity of lies that appease,
Those grazing in the dunes still tarry at ease.
It’s no wonder!
Insecurity has grown into a most lucrative market
As danger becomes the currency on which to place the bet;
Release the flow from the control that profits hold fast,
Question the junk food that's become the pasture of our mass.
Continuous diversions
Feeding everyone’s greed
Fulfilling false concerns -
So easily believed!
How every blast creates a reaction!
Panic attacks to draw the attention.
Will the facts in knowledge’s downfall
Let us unshackle the repertoire?
Mar 28, 2021
Mar 28, 2021 at 3:49 PM UTC
*“I love you like the moon.”
“I’d do anything to see that smile.”
“I’m standing on a roof
and the tingle of the edge
reminds me of you..”
“Anything, anything for those eyes.”*
“Do you want the gifts I have for you?
Nope, I just want you.
Kay, I’ll wear a bow.
I’ll wear a bow too..”
too,
too,
too,
girdled,
packed up,
ensnared, stacked, ****** up -
All fickle,
molded, folded
to the point where the paper
starts to tear,
“One day, we’ll get married.”
Cold,
recycled feelings
and you still don’t care?
Care enough to play nice
with the frail beast
at your feet,
the silent song
whisking
the oil
and
water
into grey -
“A fantasy –that’s what you are to me..”
Vacuous games
you still like to play -
as if
I were a fool, too,
like him –
or a fool, too,
like you -
not to see how bad you are,
how sad you are,
lonesome,
aching baritone
deceiving a different home
with the loudness still in your lap,
ended with that slap,
started, again, with that stare,
that glare into a promise,
a dream worth more while
than a bed full of loveless tricks
and a jealous heart
rung out,
back in the back,
where the bees feast
on all the hot meat
swallowed,
inhaled by your salty appetite
for sadness,
contrived madness,
again,
again,
a_grain?,
again,
a_gain?,
again,
a_pain -
****
ungird me from this swaddling love cocoon,
unshackle me,
untie me from this camouflaging lie,
unwind me,
unbind me,
don’t blanket me with all
you think I want to hear…
if you don’t want me -
let me love another
“..almost like it gives you joy crushing me so hard -
all I’ve done is love you.”
Nov 14, 2011
Nov 14, 2011 at 10:12 PM UTC
~
Saint of Light
Release these chains of tortured deeds
Along a sculpted veering hedge
On paths this darkness tends its breed
Of jagged cliff, so near that edge
For one false move, lurks footstep dread
Beneath the agony now shown
Within these eyes and lips of red
Heartless wishes winged and thrown
I offer thee a hand so warm
You maiden fair this winter’d breeze
To greet my heart within this storm
Unshackle those in firm release
To lie with me of feathered dreams
And take of all my soul can bare
Your beauty comes of all it seems
In flesh that I do long to share
For of thy ******* my mouth does meet
Aroused in pleasured flitting feast
Rose petal soft, magnolia sweet
To sooth the yearnings of the beast
Of endless days, to hold you near
Pure love doth conquer moistened *****
Melodic whispers call thy ear
Eternally we shall be joined
For I am called the Saint of light
Come taste the flavors scented mist
When now the full moon shines this night
And I partake your temptress kiss
Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 7:30 AM UTC
I yearn for Silence every day,
Otherwise brimming with the noise
Of all those expectations.
How euphoric it is to sit in quiet,
With my tea cup,
The stack of letters laying ignored to my left,
And be in that liberating solitude.
To watch the wind rustle through the rosemary *** on the porch,
And be utterly nothing
But myself.
There is no pantomime in the stillness,
No role to play in tranquility.
Shirk your persona!
Unshackle that heavy façade!
In the darkness we all release that sigh of relief,
Satisfied by the invisibility,
By the absence of another.
Jan 24, 2018
Jan 24, 2018 at 11:10 AM UTC
Please don't **** me
I'm begging for mercy
But I refuse to say sorry
My apology will just be pure denial
Can't you see it's been awhile
Long time coming
I'm still running
Please oh no
No no no god ****** no
I put your name in vain please don't condemn my soul
But they want to take me away
To a place we all will end up
But not like this
No no no
I still won't say I'm sorry
I'm worried
I still haven't been let free
Singe my flesh
disfigured me
Oh me me me
How ugly me
I'm a monster just unshackle me
So many faces
Pretty faces but I'm just suffering
Why me me
Where's my apology
I'm still not sorry
Until you do right by me
No no no ****** no
Skin is burned
Heart is cold
Soul is gray
Why the burden
Keep it burning
But don't **** me
I am begging
But I won't apologize
I won't say sorry
Spare me please
Yes I'm a monster
But you have no right to shackle me
I can't breathe
Let air in
Let me see
It's dark and I'm scared
And I don't care
Cuz I am a monster
And I won't say sorry
No no no
Where's my apology
Let my bloodline weep and weep for me
But I'm not sorry
And I don't care
Fear has stricken me
But I'm not sorry
Do your worst and I'll wait to bleed
So set me free
But I'm not sorry
Aug 22, 2014
Aug 22, 2014 at 8:53 PM UTC
I'm not enough butter
Spread across too much bread
Pinned like butterfly wings
Trapped in a frame
I'm looking out from underneath
And I've got water in my lungs
Screaming but no one hears
Over laughter and clinking glasses
Alone and surrounded by everyone
Suffocating and frozen
I'm on the outside
And every word is a dagger
Stabbing my insides
I'm bleeding out
So what about me?
Exhausted and empty inside
Missing the rush of blood
Like it was only yesterday
Cracking like an egg to watch
The yolk stain my sweater sleeve
But I won't go back there
Tired of pulling apart my seams like
The creases from an envelope
Unfolded and exposed
So the world can see
That there’s nothing left inside
Unshackle your heart from my memories
I know now that I'll never get inside of you
Restless but exhausted
But the sleep will never come
And when it does its riddled
With nightmares and monsters
Cold sweat and tears running down
The sides of my face but I can't wake up
And when I do I'm still crying
Because I am the option
The second choice, the forgotten
I am a mirage, I am invisible
So what about me?
I am not enough butter
Spread across too much bread
I am not enough
May 26, 2013
May 26, 2013 at 8:56 PM UTC
"Not too long to go now," your bones squeak,
Your feet has seen things, your eyes have travelled far and wide
The promise of a new land
That peeks through the stony shreds
The quiet murmur of freedom the masses dream of,
For justice to finally matter.
And oh, how the heavens creaked open
Illuminating its light on all that is holy
'This land is rightfully ours and it shall be with the rightful owner' you demanded ever so gently,
People of the land marching in solidarity on the barren sand cheering,
"We're with you bapaji, never give up!",
And the foot trails you leave behind unshackle history and make new ones
That will be whispered in centuries from now.
The road forks ahead, ever more complicated and rusty,
But you trudge on to not break those hearts
That have taken upon themselves to beat against yours,
Your walking stick stabs the earth as you inch towards the promise behind those walls.
Not too long to go now.
31.3.15
(C) 2015 Shalini Nayar
Apr 2, 2015
Apr 2, 2015 at 3:44 AM UTC
Set all things aside for one moment,
Clear your space and empty your mind,
Free your thought of the debris of memories,
Set all things aside
And breathe in deeply the peace and the silence,
The sound of calm water drifts on the air,
Unshackle the chains of the day that restrain you
- Rest awhile and repair.
Feb 26, 2017
Feb 26, 2017 at 6:06 AM UTC
my back was unpressurized tonight about 3 hours ah, i was about
to type ago. What else, well
just interviewing
myself
about to ask me some questionz. Who is
that person alive somewhere longing to
unshackle themselves / yet keys are within
the thread that it weaves. Yes,
to life, beautifully strengthen one another,
live vicariously and hear it in the thunder.
Bail out of blunderz
ve
all daily wonder of something or another.
Watch
the rain
fall instinctively smoke
rises from desserted dust
laying scorched in the earth
as imaginary beliefs of solutions littering
pollution. Forgiveness the farthest away from our
mind, just strands of dna connected intertwined at
the roots, i am putting on my boot. Think of
correct statements to say that it will alwayz feel, stay
this way. Pause, oxygen circulatez, pattering rain on a roof sounds
like
footsteps marching
unfortunately in battle. The most unjust
cruel
inhumane
self serving consumer
professional mind controlling false deitiez,
this war of loss.
Mar 23, 2010
Mar 23, 2010 at 3:39 AM UTC
I am sullied
I am broken
Though they are whispered
I hear the words you've spoken
So open
Your heart
Unshackle
Your mind
Bring forward
Your art
And relish
These times
I find
With rhyme
I fly
Inside
But I hide
Unbearably shy
I see you
And wonder......
Sep 8, 2016
Sep 8, 2016 at 8:47 PM UTC
1) The world scorns me
Without reason
No Blood, upon my hands
The guilt destroys me,
Without reason,
Thoughts fight, sense disbands
I am spinning
in the mist,
and Catching
glimpses as I twist
As spectres
smother my existence
Hiding joy
and warping distance,
Trivialities
are manifest
Drunk on self importance,
dressed
Clinically,
and all in white
Anaesthetists,
I feel no light.
Hold me now and show me
sense
I need a frame
of reference,
Joy, at times, will follow,
after
Let me know and
show me laughter
Show me love,
And tell me if,
Asking why’s
A dangerous gift.
*
2) We can never be free
Or unshackle the chain
Of cause,
and effect
We are never free
From the consequences
Of our actions,
unless
We break free
from our mind’s archives
Of shame,
and unrest
Aug 1, 2011
Aug 1, 2011 at 1:53 PM UTC