The Universe

The sky seems so wide dreams become lost in the stars

And that's why the Moon stays shining,

To help light the way to the Big Dipper

Where I can wish people well

By telling them to reach to the heavens and above

That's why the world becomes the ground on which ladders are built

Because with each step there's another day

To make the night lights stay on until everyone is safely at home

At home where dinner feels like meals

And there's no window that stays closed

Because the wind needs to cool down the heat from the oven

The rivers stay running because it's better than my thoughts

Since the only water that reigns on my throne are tears

The ones that fear an eye for safety

So they hide from people's words like crosswords

And words just cross people in the wrong direction

So what is said becomes what is regretting

It's setting the wrong impressions on impressing others

than yourself

Where is this world's mind?

Because I'm not sure where in the Universe mine is. . .

The Hustle

To hustle is a must do / bust those who get in the way / they're getting away / they're trying to buy their freedom / but you don't see them / because they're already on stacks / high stacked, so they can't investigate / go back and hesitate / in case they face the feds / but in their heads / they're heading to the top / and that won't stop them / not only is it a hip hop thing / it's a one night fling / but most call it success / but if joy happens less / it's not happiness / guess it's just what they make of it / take a hit, but there's no rest / i'm blessed, when everyone is stressed / the left because nothing goes right / the light is diminished / probably finished, just extinguish /

Two Randoms - Too Random

Sometimes I wonder where we’ll end up

Give it some months, some years, just days

Will I love you with the same intensity?

Love you like our first date kiss,

Nothing more, nothing less

Let’s rest on the notes that play our favorite song

Listen along to the words we’ve only heard a thousand times

“It’s just you and I in this future room that’ll be our home

Open the door to new fortune and look forward to the future”

That’s where our hearts sing

They seem to be in unison

One in the same, yet opposites can attract

It’s a matter of the passion

The actions that speak louder than words

Probation

I’m waiting for my trial to come to file

It’s the time that has me waiting

Ticking away my days like I just watch everything go by

Where am I?

Waiting under the Bridge

Waiting for the rain to stop pouring

I’m tired of this reign that keeps on pouring

Change out of pockets to broke to keep one

(6/4/2009)

3.15.08

Orange Juice

The taste of it is watery
Too watery I might as well have gotten water
And the crowd is slightly comical
While the wind plays with the window
The lights are dim and the fans
Fan away the heat
But I'm hotter than these fresh eggs
My mind is scrambled
My body is like bacon; stiff
Unable to speak
Unable to tell her
Sitting across the table
How beautiful she is
And how much I'd do for her
The sacrifices sufficient enough
To keep her content forever
But the smell of powdered sugar
Over french toast is too intoxicating
So, I just hide the compliments
With a mouthful of cowardly actions
And quench my thirst with
Orange Juice

Unsaid

Somehow you are intoxicating
Like I want you more than I need you
But it always feels so good
You stay on my mind like an itch
Mend my cuts like a stitch
You make me want to rhyme
In order to convince you
That you have me going crazy
And I don't want to admit
That I've fallen for you
I want to pretend like
You're just another lady in my mind
But girl you are my...my..my world
Yes its crazy that your eyes
Are the stars
Keep me in check with Orion's Belt
Your dimples
Are the caves we hide in
When we want to be alone
Your 'I love you's
Are the best words next to
'I do'
But will you ever know
You are the beat in this artist
The colors I hope to catch
After I taste the hues
Of this masterpiece
You are the ink
That flows in my veins
Waiting to be cut
To bleed my love onto paper
You are the beginning
Of the ending
You are the Village
I can always come home to
If only you'll let me
You are
The stripes on Zebra's
The protector from carnivores
You are the Pastor
To my sinful ears
With a voice full of God
You are my time
That talks to me when I tick
You are
What I'll accept if you decline
You are the Amazon
A beast to keep courage at a roar
You are a woman of wonder
No wonder you're amazing
You are mi amor
Y por eso te amo siempre

everday motown grooves

Sometimes the blues keep us cold in the city where summer is lucky to have a turn
We yearn for warmer days
Not only in temps but in rents
Because when the money is due there's few that can make the payments
But it takes patience to make it out of debt
Expect the check to hold the fam of five to a slice of turkey ham
So there's always beef to go around
Don't you know, a lack of food can become tragic in the hood
Should it get any worse it becomes a curse
Word, is born almost everyday
Since the only way out is through dictionaries
The vocabulary list is so short that even I'm tall compared to its readings
The feedings on the mind don't fulfill the hopeless
So they hope less
Cope stress with dope mess
And the crack breaks backs
Not only on mothers but our brothers
Who are fighting for a buck
Fresh out of luck so they bang
Until the only bells heard are from church steeples
But I see death reaper
So he's a keeper
Who keeps her away from her love
Because she was shot astray
A passer by, so she wasn't in the way
Night and day begin to look the same
But the change in the office can't stop this democracy
Because wherever you go you'll always find majority rules
Its cool when you aren't the one stuck between heat
A fire that burns even after shells land on hells ceiling
People stop kneeling because believing has lost its faith
Space no longer likes faces because its better to keep to your own land than lend a hand
But what happened to a village and child relationship
Did the whips become a new definiton for slavery
So the new machine only needs oil to spoil the minds stuck behind the line of mellow tunes and hello june
Its still spring so people hip hop their way to freedom
But the symptoms of stardom isn't always a dream
But if you wake up and smell the dew these words won't feel like a dream
That's why I keep it real
So no more seals on the potholes this city has
This pity was here
But I'm here to create life
Because she's pregnant with my seeds
So let them grow so that melodies won't stay as the ice cream trucks tune
And more like lullaby that'll rest you
But don't test dudes
Just test through
The song doesn't have to stop because the bless sings
So stop and listen to the motown grooves

left lonely

In a world full of people who want to be a sequel its hard being left alone
But I've realized that if I were to roam they'd follow
Trying to fill my hollow
Don't you know I'm hallow
My days can feel like tomorrows
Meaning that they're so amazing the changing of seasons wouldn't matter
My ashes could scatter and I'd still find laughter in the wind
Chimes would sing
And I'd just listen to God talk
So whether I want to walk alone I still have someone around
I've found that space and time just gives you more space to fill your time
Or more time to fill your space
Just replace your caring for my freedom
See them people over there
Now they need you
I plead you a case to erase my name out your mind
Not forever but until I level my attitude
I need gratitude
So to do so I need to know what I'm missing
But that means I need to go missing and don't come find me
I'm on a retreat towards self-understanding
So let me retreat into the woods
And I promise I won't tree to leave my problems behind, I mean below
But I just need to be left lonely
Blessed only, stress slowly
So I need a break to take my mind from my problems
I will solve them, that's not the issue
Its the mission of my destiny that has me lingering
Hindering me from moving forward
Now allow me to grow out of being a coward to courage
And let me breath in my personal space
I need my space not your face booked to my schedule
So stop following and twitter away
I'm trying to make a connection and you're on my landline
Please let me be
I'm trying to be free
I'll be back with change
I promise
Just give me a couple days and I'll be back to stay longer