roots eyes

There are roots in my eyes / trying to grow deceit / but I won't let it win / cause I know that's to keep / me from free reach / so I'll lynch your hate / to keep my pace / place serenity over race / I'm willing to stand my ground / and sprout for the sun / reach for the stars / where peace ain't so far

Hmmm. . .

I love to see her happy

But I hate for it to be because of somebody else

And I’ve never had her be mine

Like valentines

I wonder if she wonders when I’ll wander into her wonders and have her wander into what wonders my universe holds

Heavenly Father

Oh heavenly father, please do us part to mark the days of a cold haze. Replace the chase and make haste the grace. Engrave the praise that must be placed unto you.

I seek to the treat / of a feat to keep feet

Alive, strive for a life / where strife never arises

I demise the plan / to destruction of nature

An obstruction on paper / is just as worse

As a curse put on voices / so they’ll be voiceless

The choices must be open / to those who be coping

Stroking the hands of time / so they’ll be provoking

Good fortune, that’s an orchard / food for thought

Bought for sell, but a cell / is just a box to block

The sights of a better future / so suit ya self

Gain the wealth within / to find health without

Heavenly father / be my martyr / I will follow / your shadow / fill hollow hearts / solve in parts / so they’ll be in peace / relearn to love again / and live forever

The mind to define / a line of signs /

to align with a divine / shine but remind /

yourself about the wealth / that makes and creates

to affirm success / the best of the specs

respect the wrecks / and let the rest chess

checker your beats / so each move is to keep

you from losing / choosing or using

the moving as cruising / don’t be abusing

your power to complex / on the universe

follow the course / and of course say your verse

it’ll go heard / cause happiness is the word

Heavenly father / be my martyr / I will follow / your shadow / fill hollow hearts / solve in parts / so they’ll be in peace / as they learn to love again / and live forever

Times get hard, its apart / of life, we all know that /

but there’s a fact that the pact / between you and god /

Is no façade / but such an act of gratitude/

A magnitude of blessings / are ever resting /

On your face / if you replace the hate

And elevate a smile / in its rightful place

Make haste on casting / a role on other people

Cause there’s no show / just tell your piece

And please believe / it just better be received

Well, if you’ve not done well / hell might be waiting

But that’s inside / no need to abide

With beauty if you won’t admire what is free

If you won't, I will cry your tears for you.

I will carry your burdens and load them into the river.

You don't have to hurt anymore, I will take your hurt.

All the pain will be mine.

Not out of sympathy but out of love.

Isn't that the ultimate love?

To bear the burden of another and/or others so that they don't have to?

Transfer your fears and all your worries..

I have a better place for them..

Your pain my pain.

Your tears, all mine.

I will carry you.

I love you.

Whether you'd return the favor is irrelevant.

Why?

Because I love you.

Un-conditional-ly.

You deserve the chance..

To live and do it fully.

Your life saved is my living.

So let me bear all of your burdens.

Hurt no more.

The Dream (Part 1)

“Let freedom ring,

Let freedom ring”

From the bottom of my lungs I wish I could scream

“Let freedom ring,

Let freedom ring”

But I can’t even be heard from the bass that rocks the asses of the masses

What happened to our Casius?

This atlas has no more freedom fighters

No more freedom righters

No more freedom writers

No more freedom wrighters

So everyone is LEFT with UNSPOKEN WORDS that have BROKEN WINGS

And they never get a chance to fly

Or feel the breeze on their faces

Because hell is on their backs

So everyone is out here on the attack

Thinking since it’s a recession that they’ll be progressing if they steal the jewels of homes they’ve never felt

Where’s justice then?

“Let freedom ring,

Let freedom ring”

Do you remember his dream? Or maybe her reality? Or even, our life?

We wait for occurrences to procure instances of instant access to safety

Thinking, lately it’s not as safe as it used to be when I was younger

But don’t you remember there are kids out here too

What about those who know dreaming is just not going to happen so they live in their nightmares?

Waiting for the monsters to break into their homes and deport them to

“Let freedom ring,

Let freedom ring”

We forget that there’s war in our cities

It’s a pity that I have to judge such a person that is human

Like mirrors don’t even work anymore

We’re shattered with broken homes, lost grades, an American Dream

Moms strung to some strong lungs belonging to a loss of longing

Pot popped into pops tops cause of lax influx of taxes

It’s the attacks on our own people that equal no regal doms

Kingdoms trying to stay alive because their profile is young, black, Hispanic, male, that has yet to learn his greatness, his peace, his manhood

Queendoms trying to be reborn with a newborn thinking it will in turn make them that much younger that life has yet to be lived

We all wait for a day when we won’t hear sirens dancing instead of our gratitude

We wait for a day when we won’t hear bullets whispering instead be mute for togetherness

We wait for a day when justice just is what it is when it is justified

We wait until we,

“Let freedom ring,

Let freedom ring”

But maybe we need a wake up call to dial into our responsibilities and take action

Maybe, we need deaths to brings us back to life in order to

“Let freedom ring,

Let freedom ring”

Hispanish?

Hispanish?

Mis people are misunderstood

Mis people are misunderstood

My jente are malentendido

How can you stand there, I mean, sit there and tell me

That if I look like an alien then I’m not human

What makes you more of an American?

Except that you already live HERE

Land of the free, but we’re willing to pay taxes too

And work minimum wage not because of stereotypes

But, because, have you ever lived THERE

It’s a place called Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Haiti, Ghana

And now, there’s also, U.SA

See, mi Tia calls it U.SA

It makes me wonder how you sir can judge me

By my brown tone of the roots that bore me

The hair that is too strait to get braids

The hard working qualities that are required to stay alive in a place where most people live off of a $1 a day

The four last first names, all from my ancestors

The freedom of speech, libertad de palabra

Tengo poder en este Mundo

I have power in this world, right?

Since our president is Negro

And we’re always talking about colors but at least they all got along in boxes

Now we’re all in boxes, unless we unite

Become encircled in Enchiladas, Tamales, Pollo Frito, muy rico

But the rich never tasted something so delightful

Unless they count their money

It’s funny; a dollar here is 18 lempiras

And I’m still much wealthier when I’m living for my family

I at least have a home and a community that consists of an aunty here, aunty there, tio aquí, tio allá, nieto por aquí, another cousin from a friend, and then most importantly,

My mother and father who taught me to speak up

Especially when languages no oyen don’t hear the screams of help

Ayudame, por favor, y yo te ayudo,

Unless you think of my hand out as a slap in the face

To someone who doesn’t have to struggle with being new to these parts of town

A Lil Sunshine To My Cloudy Night

A Lil Sunshine To My Cloudy Night

Yes, I do get my days when rays of sunshine sometimes stay hidden

So it seems forbidden, but I try to play hide and seek

Hoping it peaks through the clouds and shouts my name

Like,

"Gooooooood Moooorning Loooooooove"

And I love my good mornings because I'm never mourning

Just yawning and breathing in the freshness

And it's lessons that adds stress in the blessings

I'm resting, just expressing that at nights when the stars shine

And still I can't find lights in my cloudy nights

I just need something to make me smile

I'm living in a world where swords are everywhere

And I can never compare happiness because it happens less and less

Sometimes I just feel depressed

And I want a recess from this test that reflects on my strength

Because there times when I'm just weak and vulnerable

Unable to fight against the wind because it blows my defenses down

So we go for another round and I'm on the ground

Reminiscing about the times back when . . .

So, I remember my past like the clouds just cast a shadow

And my thoughts just scatter

But what matters the most is that I'm ALIVE

Because I go back to the attacks and the burdens as tracks

What I used to lack I now have and it's the little things that mean the most

Like a close friend who asked for words, and I was not most aware of what I could do

So I use my tools to write the wrongs because

"I'm just dwn and really needed 1 of ur poems 2 cheer me up"

So I decided to send poems thinking I own them

But as I write this I realize the kisses I lay on peoples hopes and dreams

Because they cope and seem to live a little more with my words

But what they don't know is that I appreciate them

Alleviate when I get the courage to erase the pens they're held in

So I'm giving my best to the rest of the world

As they are my fans who cool me down when I'm redder than peppers

And I'll remember when I'm as gray as the clouds

That I'm living for those who never knew

Never knew that you bring me sunshine, even if it's just a little

It's enough to make me smile

Age and Numbers

If age is just a number

Why does it matter when love is added?

Aren’t problems subtracted?

Or have you multiplied the type of boys

By the games they play?

See, my legal age doesn’t make me a man, just yet

But wait a year and I think I’ll be the same

Just another being, being the best he can be

My future lies in the truths that doesn’t come before

And more like the answers after

So let me ask you,

Do you want your daughter to be happy?

Yes, well, so do I

And I don’t say I do till I know it’s true

But your views of me will stay the same

I can’t complain

I understand,

I’m just another boy trying to be a man in your books

And all I’m trying to do is get in between those sheets, right?

No, that’s not me

I like to read between the lines

Because sometimes that’s where you’ll find the truth

The other youth who thought he could heal her

So he appealed her to love him

And she did

Not knowing that he hid a temptation

All he wanted was elation

And now that’s what’s holding me in square one

Because the cycles seem the same

And I’m the “psycho” stuck in the “game”

Guess I need a new objective

Because age is nothing but my youth growing up

So if you’re giving up on the chances

I hope they dance to salsa and let me lead

I don’t want to get stuck in the music hearts play

But in the happiness that comes after

So I’ll stay after the song is over

Even if you don’t care how old I am

I just want to be man enough to go against the world

I want to be boy enough to learn from my mistakes

I just want to be old enough to ask for your hand

Without promising a future,

Only because we need the present to gift our love

So we can package it, send it to our tomorrow

And see if it still feels like today

Lonely

Lonely

Sometimes in a world full of a million people

You just don’t want to be that million and one person

You just want to be on an island

Where the only problem is how many coconuts should there be for lunch

But that’s when you start thinking

That you’ll be trapped forever

And you’re brought back into reality

Only to forget you had dreams or hopes

So you begin hoping your dreams come quick

Quicker than it takes for the journey to even begin

But that’s when it ends; the pain

The pain that seems to gnaw at your skin

Somehow you still want it to pick at you

Like you being first chosen is the best to ever happen to someone’s life

That’s two strikes, two strides to worry about

Too much to take into consideration

And it’s too lonely when no one knows two souls are not whole

So instead of a million and two, you’re both a part of this world

A cold place that replaces faces like commercials

Holding like kisses for only seconds

And the seconds it takes to make a million and three

Is diagnosed by the million and two decline

So have you forgotten the feeling when you were just three?

A family, parents who apparently had it planned

That you’ll grow old to become someone

Yet, on this night you ignite the candle to keep the dark alleys lit

Maybe leaving a path for someone to keep on walking

And forgetting you were holding the light

Instead, just holding the brights from those who don’t understand

So they continue forward, away from the darkness

Not knowing that underneath all that black there’s rest

A colorless view that is open to directions

A way of life that seems like death is around

But what’s profound is not that there’s so much negative

But what’s in sight is twisted into not positive

And the answers to life is only to take breaks at times when you want to be alone

Only to come back into a world of a million and four people

And pretend like nothing ever happened . . .

Stuff

Live. Live...LIVE

Heaven. Heaven...HEAVEN

Words make LIVE feel like HEAVEN

Heaven feels Live, because this is Real Time

I don't stop life to expect the unexpected

Pause the game so I can win without Reset

Retell, the story because I'll be gloried

Superman of Future battles

I live with no grammar

Because English isn't my first language

Human hearing is my vibrations in the mentals

The voice that's heard when others are too scared to tell the truth

The only reason I speak for you

Is because someone spoke for me

I was unspoken because I didn't know how to talk

Now I have voice, and a meaning

Give me a pen and set a meeting with the World

I need to announce something

I POET

I could go on and on about life
But that's what scares me
Half of what I tell people seem to be dreams, de javu or a past happening
What's happening?
It feels like I'm forgetting my past
So it has come to pass
And I'm down below my thoughts because to swim up stream seems a challenge when I don't even know what I'm swimming towards

Lost and forgotten seem to be the words that cross my mind when I think of you
But just yesterday the day became the past
To you the last one has lost one and you're in need of hugs
Well, that's not how it works all the time
And you should know
I'm not one for enemies but my entity entirely aches because it has yet to let go
That's why I'm here to let show that its not me that's lost and forgotten
I've lost that feeling inside that feels like light but makes me conscious of what's to come
I've forgotten how it feels to be happy around you since its equally better to be happy with someone anyways
And I've gained some knowledge
That if you have some sense you shouldn't pay attention to things that are shiny
You never know, it might just be your reflection
So check what you see before you try to attain it
At least I'm not lost or forgotten anymore

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

logix on love

She said she was broken
So I was hoping to build her
You see I'm an architect major
No stages, I do monuments
So I figured she could become my temple
Where I could come relax my mentals
So no more temper
No more renters
Because I know she's done with selling her heart
No wonder I couldn't find her on amazon
So I continued my search on google but she wasn't there either
Guess it was because she couldn't be a G if she was in hotmail
Stuck between messengers
And she didn't know which one to believe
So she received all the yahoo they left in her space
Meaning her face booked an image for youtube
A U turn of views that was in the past
But to stay in her future she'd still twitter her now
But now when she thought she found her prince charming
He was charging her time to see him
Meaning, he thought he was rich enough to leave her behind so he could find better cheddar
I guess he didn't know the cheese she had was worth more than gold
Because when you smile sunshine is in my hands
And if I go horizon, I'm rising with the Gods
So that must mean I'm a pharaoh or an archangel
Because you makes me arch back and pretend I have wings
And I open them so the wind blows between my fingers
And that's what makes holding you so much better
Because you fill my void
And I'm trying to avoid the sights that bring spam
I'm trying to show you there's more than square maps
So let's travel the world and collect the materials that will help me build you up
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