Category: Fatherless

  • Keep WRiting

    Keep WRiting


    Keep writing
    Just to get it all out
    Anything I can do
    Cannot scream
    Dear not shout
    But the frustration
    It’s confusing
    Peace
    It’s elusive

    Keep writing
    Speaking life into me
    Somehow gaining energy
    Constant serenity
    Searching for more
    Bless me with more
    Always looking for
    That gentle peace

    Keep writing
    Doing all I can
    Letting it slip through
    The anger, the fascination
    Everything in me
    Causing the hysteria
    Rain drenching
    Thunder rattling

  • I’m Tired

    I’m Tired

    I’m tired
    Heard you say it
    a thousand times
    And I thought it was physical
    All the time
    Now I see, now I feel
    That deep rooted appeal
    People talking happy days
    All the joy they have
    Even on a sad day
    I cannot feel it
    Is it real?
    Never had it, never will

    Tired of this day
    Being the last
    Impatiently waiting
    Exhausted anticipating
    Tired, so tired, tired
    Of everything
    On everything
    Tired of this day
    Being the last
    Impatiently waiting
    Exhausted anticipating
    Tired, so tired, tired
    Of everything
    On everything

    Life is spent giving
    Making sure others are living
    Give it my all
    But what’s left
    Just the grand fall
    So, so, tired
    Doing everything that I can
    Nothing left but sand
    Pairs of footprints in back of me
    Been here the whole time
    Striving with all I got
    But tired, is all I got

    Tired of this day
    Being the last
    Impatiently waiting
    Exhausted anticipating
    Tired, so tired, tired
    Of everything
    On everything
    Tired of this day
    Being the last
    Impatiently waiting
    Exhausted anticipating
    Tired, so tired, tired
    Of everything
    On everything

  • Show Strength

    Show Strength

    Show strength
    Through every weakness
    Accepting that I am
    Everything that I have done
    Molded through hardship
    Into what I’ve become

    Show strength
    Through every tear
    Releasing all I fear
    Uncontrollable circumstances
    Finding fake comfort
    loving fake romances

    Show strength
    Through the Earth’s rotation
    Defensively approaching situations
    The past me, has gripped me
    Presently not focused on me
    Praying seeds are blessed irrespectively

    Show strength
    Through every heartbreak
    Accepting quickly it’s for my sake
    Holding onto a finite being
    Prevents realization of the dream
    Reaching toward that infinite being

  • Never Letting Go

    Never Letting Go

    So long a part of me,
    that now I find energy from misery.
    It’s a daily affirmation making and checking
    the gates and walls keeping that hidden pain hidden.
    Muscle memory is stronger,
    I can fight not much longer.
    People impressed at the rudimentary shit I do
    cause they don’t know I’m never letting go.

    Brick and mortar use to be torture
    as I had to modify techniques to remain unique,
    so common enemies could go right past
    without a thought of the hidden vulture.
    Death constantly looming,
    watching my moves
    wondering why I spent so many hours
    protecting mental heirlooms.
    Death didn’t know I’m never letting go.

    People keep mentioning this place that’s free.
    Speaking of earth
    like it’s really heaven if I could only see.
    Each day that triumph and disaster
    I see completely changing destinies.
    Wondering….
    where is their fortress,
    where is their shield
    how can they exist not knowing
    how to manage life’s unexpected tendencies.
    What would they be
    if they really knew that I’m never letting go.

    The past is the only teacher we have.
    There is an illusion that there is good and bad.
    The response to that which is gone is the changing fad.
    A culture of social dictatorship
    enforcing how you must feel
    and what you must do.
    But what if,
    the answer is just in you.
    Picking and choosing what to include and exclude
    not the solution,
    the mastery of managing the response is the revolution.
    Letting Go.

  • Just Different

    Just Different

    Fatherless(23)
    Experiencing things Differently
    As if different choices were made
    Imaging the differences as reality
    Now I’m stuck on this fantasy
    What if’s. And If that’s….
    None of it means a thing
    In reality it’s not better or worse
    It’s just a different path to the same thing

    Going deep into the emotion of different things
    Plotting out new courses with a different ring
    The difference of this emotion is only
    That I’m trying to make it different
    Like trying to only carve out the best
    Like this fantasy wont let me rest
    Repeating my past with different decisions
    Precisely laid out like an incision
    It’s just a different way but the same pain

    Looking at money differently
    Don’t need different banks to exchange pennies
    I am the hedge fund, creating wealth differently
    Money watching money make money
    Different life sure to be
    That different life, different expenses surely
    And in an instant still broke as could be
    But at least I made the money differently

    Pain is soothed by different thoughts
    As if I weren’t in control the first time around
    The different things I would have done
    If and only if I knew what I know now
    Same intelligence doesn’t lead to a different result
    This is the life I have, I could start living or be lost
    Focusing on where I am
    versus where I thought I should be
    The only difference, is the difference I am imagining.
    Copyright 2018 Sy Bryant. All rights reserved

  • Duality

    Duality

    Fatherless(22)
    Loved and rejected
    Synonymously interwoven
    Associate one with the other
    As if they are one in the same
    As I come to accept the real
    Pain
    Loving ones that rejects you
    Rejecting ghosts that love you

    Peace and pain
    Intertwined overtime
    Pretending I’m at peace
    With the the pain within me
    So comfortable in fact
    Life
    Is the peace I feel in pain
    The pain becomes my peace

    Accepted and deteriorated
    Building inescapable fate
    Witnessing my own demise
    Longing for an escape
    Accepting the amount of hate
    Existence
    accepting a deteriorating life
    Deteriorating accepting systemic defeat

    Hope and Hate
    Creating mystical obstacles
    Hoping for Love and Peace
    Hating the pain and rejection
    Deteriorating my acceptance
    Living
    Regardless of this past
    Independently I shall last

  • I Cannot Blame You

    I Cannot Blame You


    I cannot blame you
    For who I was
    No more than I can blame you
    For who I am
    I am every choice
    That I MAKE
    So of those will good
    Most will be bad
    The only comfort
    Is that I am so focused
    On learning from my own mistakes

    I cannot blame you
    Although I spent so much time
    Doing exactly that
    That know that I know better
    Its hard to change a thing
    Because I cannot get
    Not one single second back
    So instead of blaming you
    Now, in reality I started hating you
    Using hate as a fuel
    I have become so cruel

    I cannot blame you
    But it is easier to blame you
    Than to blame myself
    Because if I blame myself
    That would mean I failed myself
    And I do not want to admit that
    To myself
    Yet I am stuck in this cycle
    Of a lack of accountability
    For every choice that I made
    Wasn’t always made for me

  • Energy Gone

    Energy Gone

    Energy Gone
    Heart beating slower
    Mood much lower
    Struggling to consume
    No more room
    Emptiness vastness
    Prevailing blankness
    Captured by darkness
    Subtle tone
    Energy gone

    Looking deeply
    Nights mystery
    Reminding me
    Endless possibility
    Stars for me
    Shining brightly
    Stomach bonded tightly
    Swift anxiety
    Cannot move
    Life disapprove
    Flesh and bone
    Energy gone

    Cannot breathe
    Pain underneath
    Longing disbelief
    Driving passion
    Simple compassion
    Lack of focus
    Depressed diagnosis
    Opening conclusions
    Summarized illusion
    Unanswered phone
    Energy gone

  • Years of Tears

    Years of Tears

    Fatherless(9)
    Years of tears
    Letting every drop
    Build up
    Hold it in
    Containing it
    Letting evaporation
    Evaporate every sin
    Take away each pain

    Years of tears
    The dam is well maintained
    Always with
    A smile on the face
    Hiding every disgrace
    Left thinking
    How to hide everything
    As if I don’t feel a thing

    Years of tears
    In the pit of despair
    Feeling the void
    Lost energy
    Everything leaving me
    Any possibility to see
    Something new
    Old world view

    Years of tear
    And every few years
    I release these tears
    Flushing out everything
    Lost in this fantasy
    As if pain is temporary
    Pretending in this
    No end to this

  • Ever been alonE

    Ever been alonE

    Ever been alonE
    Alone in this room,
    Since yesterday around noon,
    If the law of attraction is real
    What does it mean when,
    When there’s no one to feel.

    Have you ever been alone,
    In that place by yourself, alone
    No one to call, alone
    No one to see, everyone is gone
    Only thing left is….being alone

    Thoughts flowing freely.
    Lot of people say they need me.
    But in the fell clutch of circumstances
    By myself, defiant
    With no more chances.

    Have you ever been alone,
    In that place by yourself, alone
    No one to call, alone
    No one to see, everyone is gone
    Only thing left is….being alone

    Every so often meet a new face,
    Dare not open up in this place.
    Cause I know what I bring
    But Always hesitant
    when I hear the same game

    Have you ever been alone,
    In that place by yourself, alone
    No one to call, alone
    No one to see, everyone is gone
    Only thing left is….being alone

    I know in the end I’ll be ok
    Cause time heals pain
    Need faith to hold straight, so Ima hold on
    This ain’t nothing new ima keep on

    Have you ever been alone,
    In that place by yourself, alone
    No one to call, alone
    No one to see, everyone is gone
    Only thing left is….being alone

    I don’t stay down for long
    I take a little time just to mourn
    Each day is something new
    But I know, I know, I will get through.

  • First Tear

    First Tear

    Fatherless(7)
    First tear gave way for another
    Wallowed within the mystery
    The deepest darkest scheme
    Started as just a dream
    Which enabled envy
    Thinking I’m more than another

    First tear washed away the fear
    Created new opportunities
    Opened every door I saw
    Didn’t realize this was all
    Recognizing hopes improbabilities
    The coldest day gripped in fear

    First tear washing the past
    Out the window staring
    Seeing the intricacies
    Peeping the mysteries
    No one even caring
    How long will it last

    First tear just a shadow of me
    Sun exaggerating the humidity
    Sweat filling each every pore
    With infinite dollars I’m still poor
    Slowly losing every bit of dignity
    Void of everything I claim to be

  • Let It Be


    Hard to let it be
    Seeing it control you
    Nothing I can do
    Even doing the classics
    Aligning it to a disaster
    These feelings are sinister
    Nothing left to pursue
    So let you be you
    And let me be me
    Let it be?

    Hard to let it be
    Feeling like
    Damn near grew up with you
    Learning about life
    Through the things you do
    Watching the paramount
    And every single low point
    Yet and still
    Seeing what I see
    Let it be?

    Hard to let it be
    Seen this all before
    The resentment
    The reflection
    The rejection
    The simplification
    The definitions
    The acceptance is deafening
    What else could it be?
    Let it be?

    Hard to let it be
    Seeing people you love
    Struggling with things
    Completely out of your control
    Yet they want you involved
    In other things
    While avoiding the real things
    We are all meant to pretend
    That everything is
    What it is
    The ask of me,
    Let it be?

    Hard to let it be
    But there is nothing left
    How much energy is left
    Watching those in peril
    Avoiding sage advice
    Avoiding different thinking
    Accepting a single way
    As the only way
    Time lost in difficulty
    Let it be?

    Hard to let it be
    Hearing over and over
    This is only one way
    And this must be the way
    Exhausted every way
    As if ways are finitely defined
    And this is just a part of time
    Challenging to accept honesty
    Covered in mediocrity
    Let it be….

  • Unwanted For So Long

    Unwanted For So Long

    Fatherless(5)
    I have been unwanted for so long
    Only want people
    that don’t want me
    Lovely feeling chasing
    fake memories
    Making beauty
    out of the worse things
    If I ain’t unwanted
    must be something wrong
    Cause why would someone
    Ever wanna want me
    Cause why would someone
    Ever want to stop
    putting pain on me
    Addicted to this pain
    It’s the only real thing

    I have been unwanted for so long
    Afraid to
    say my own name
    It must be the initiation
    of this innermost pain
    Magnetism embedded
    In the syllables
    Pulls negativity
    directly into me
    Sitting and waiting
    Waiting and thinking
    Thinking and listening
    Listening and believing
    Believing in pain
    Cause pain is what I know
    So I keep it close to me

    I have been unwanted for so long
    Rorschach said to me
    It makes me happy
    I don’t wanna even see
    that you stay hurting me
    It’s not you
    It’s me
    Situational silence
    Violent surprising
    Weight heavy for me
    World won’t wait for me
    Will you bring it to me
    That peaceful way
    Loving me everyday
    Thinking it’s a new way
    When it’s my only way

  • Thoughts

    Fatherless(27)Thoughts reverting feverishly

    Losing the complexity

    The sanity that holds me

    I know you’d tell me to hold on

    So I’m holding onto this

    This faith that I do not understand

    What happened to the time

    When you are old and gray

    When you need people

    To help you on your way

    Where we visit you

    Periodically we hear you are doing “OK”

    It’s like in an instant

    You were taken away

    Thoughts ravishing psychologically

    Stuck feeling desperately

    Guessing at how to feel

    When every positive feeling

    Has already abandoned me

    And my face stays scrunched up

    Holding in every tear

    Hasn’t even been a day

    But feels so subtly

    Like you’ve been gone for years

    Because it would take me years

    For me to express this

    This deepened feeling

    Lost in simple meaning

    Thoughts pressing deeply

    Anger erupting

    Screaming for the resurrection

    If it was done before

    Why won’t you do it now

    I know questioning is taboo

    I’m just not feeling

    Like I’m suppose to

    Each picture I see

    I can remember the exact feeling

    Selfishly I looked forward to seeing you

    Feeling that you were proud of me

    Holding on is so hard

    God please help me!

  • Invades Me

    Invades Me

    Fatherless(25)

    Doing what I can
    Encouraging every pain
    Every single pain
    All this pain within me
    Invoking it profusely
    Daring to convince it
    For only for an instant
    Pushing through it
    Forgetting all of it
    But every time
    I try to write it out of me
    It all leaves me
    Then I have peace
    Momentarily
    Before that pain
    It repeatedly invades me

    Counting it all joy
    That’s what I’m suppose to do
    Count it
    Count it
    Count it in every single finger
    Count it on all my toes
    Need to hold onto that belief
    But if I believe
    Shouldn’t I believe
    Everything was meant to be
    But then reality sets in
    Recognizing momentarily
    That unbridled belief
    Naturally believing
    That isn’t within me
    It invades me

    Going through the stages
    Psychologically
    I already know what it is
    The stages repeat historically
    You cannot skip any steps
    The only goal
    Is going as fast as possible
    Go through every step
    As fast as possible
    For whatever reason
    I know love is everything
    But when I stop and think
    The deniability stays with me
    That anger is growing
    Negotiating different feelings
    Simply depressed
    Avoiding acceptance
    Nothing in me will believe
    It invades me

  • Handle on me

    Handle on me

    Fatherless(4)
    Hurting for so long
    Self inflicted pain
    Rationalizing others effects on me
    I cannot remember anyone staying with me
    At some point everyone leaves
    De prioritized me
    So eventually I would leave
    Before they would leave me

    Do not share the inner you
    Having prescribed emotions
    Reading people before they read you
    Staying on the defense
    Only trust my own boundary
    Cause I know it’s just me
    The mirror looking at me
    And the only one it sees is me

    Living four lives on a constant basis
    The reality of the past
    Wondering how long pain will last
    The what if of the past
    As if I could avoid my past
    The fantasy of the future
    And presently As if the previous three
    Don’t already have a handle on me

  • Innocence Fleeing

    Innocence Fleeing

    Innocence fleeing
    Innocence fleeing
    Losing perspective
    Waiting for substance
    Addictive reminiscent
    Focused on free
    Just let me be me

    Dimmed light
    Shaded destiny
    Presently grieving
    Transposing seasons
    Cannot feel complete
    Your not with me

    Radioactive feeling
    Cemented to the ceiling
    Paralysis reaching
    Depths of infinity
    Pit of desperation
    Darkened me

    Resurrection
    Anticipating elevation
    Confused similarities
    Deepened sanctity
    Enlisted in fantasy
    Reminding me of me

  • Protect Me From Me

    Protect Me From Me

    Fatherless(3)
    What would I be without me
    Without the self hate and self doubt
    How would I make it without
    That negative energy that drives me
    I pray, Protect me from me

    Remember the tribulations
    Feeling anxiety from separation
    Avoiding the bullets final call
    Left with nothing positive in me
    I pray, protect me from me

    The challenge of the remedy
    Lack of belief that I can be better than me
    Nothing wrong with where I am at
    It’s ok if I never reach the potential of my being
    I pray, protect me from me.

  • Me

    Me

    Fatherless(1)
    Not as strong as the shadow I cast
    Easy to spout off important things that last
    Pitching suggestions and allegations relentlessly
    But those soliloquies don’t inspire me

    Not as influential as the wake of success
    Trained in the art of war, only pursued the inevitable
    Encouraging every soul within my grasp
    But that inspiration doesn’t care for me.

    Not as thoughtful as gracious people say I am
    I’m avoiding regret and karma on the back end
    Making a difference in other people’s life
    But life is not the same for me

    Not as caring as I care to be
    Able to ignore desperate people in time of need
    Selfishly focused like that doesn’t impact me
    But it’s who I am. And that person is me.

  • Who Knows Me?

    Who Knows Me?

    Fatherless
    Who knows me?
    Walking this world with billions of people
    Yet I walk it alone.
    No one could say they know my dreams
    No one can say they love me
    No one knows me

    Who knows me?
    Cannot remember someone offered to help
    When is the last time I had a visit
    Have endless experiences but none momentous
    But I’m sure people have asked loving questions
    And I casually find a way to deflect them
    The wall that protects me is strong
    No one knows me

    Who knows me?
    There have been people seeking to find the entry
    But I let no one in.
    Blame everyone for the wrongdoing of a few and that was the end.
    There is no worth in loving unconditionally
    More misfortune than lies than any happy feeling
    Take the easy way out and stay alone
    At least I know who I’m with
    No one knows me

  • Make It Last

    Make It Last

    Fatherless(15)
    Sitting here thinking bout the past,
    I’m always surprised
    I was able to make it last.
    It ain’t an anchor
    But a lot of lessons learned,
    Now I’m just tryna
    Heed my own words.

    Just never knew I’d end up here.
    Filled with all kinds of shit
    I don’t wanna hear.
    Thinking of the present future
    With the past right here.
    If only you knew,
    If only I could bear.

    Walking this street
    With the rain falling.
    Screaming out loud
    And it’s God I’m calling.
    I need to understand
    Why I’m being punished.
    Who did I hurt?
    What did I do?
    Feeling like I’m finished.

    Just never knew
    I’d end up here.
    Filled with all kinds of shit
    I don’t wanna hear.
    Thinking of the present future
    With the past right here.
    If only you knew,
    If only I could bear.

    Think I’m scared
    To know the truth.
    What would be revealed
    If I knew the truth.
    Contemplating shit
    That ain’t even real.
    Caught up in past decisions
    Like it’s my final deal.
    What am I suppose to do?

    Just never knew I’d end up here.
    Filled with all kinds of shit
    I don’t wanna hear.
    Thinking of the present future
    with the past right here.
    If only you knew,
    If only I could bear.

  • Wish I Could

    Wish I Could

    wish I could give you hope
    Hope to see
    Beyond your limitations
    To believe in
    Outlandish destinations
    Knowing that all you need
    Is hope

    wish I could give you grace
    Grace to appreciate
    Every single blessing
    Each opportunity
    With endless appreciation
    Knowing that all you need
    Is grace

    wish I could give you energy
    Energy to reach your goals
    Your wildest fantasy
    Every possible thing
    You could ever need
    Knowing that all you need
    Is energy

    wish I could give you everything
    Everything that you need
    Filling every single dream
    Close your eyes
    Make thought the Reality
    Knowing that all you need
    Is everything

  • Essence of Life

    Essence of Life

    Fatherless(17)
    Peacefulness
    Through midnight dreams
    Creating images
    Never will I see
    Striving toward euphoria
    Without smoke, powders or liquids
    Naturally believing
    Still it’s deceiving

    Hopefulness
    Through the storied past
    Lessons learned
    Uncountable bodies burned
    Humiliating history
    Yet we claim the source a mystery
    No one sacrificing to be free
    Because freedom is a commodity

    Faithfulness
    Through words in historic text
    Paralyzed thinking how history
    Can ever tell you what’s next
    Avoiding past behavior
    Expecting a clandestine savior
    Yet every hero is battered
    Until the thought of the next

    Lovingness
    Through two pair of arms
    Bodies intertwined
    Weathering every storm
    Intimacy so diligently
    Somehow inspires desires
    Knowing one entity
    Still loves me

  • Rejected Being

    Woke up crying
    Mom asked why
    I cannot remember the dream
    I remember
    Not wanting to be alive
    Why did he leave
    I just never knew
    Mom said
    This is what I will do for you
    I will reach out to him
    Because he owes you this
    She ended with a kiss

    The time was arranged
    The phone did ring
    “hello”….
    Tears was all I could bear
    He waiting for a while
    With a lisp he asked
    “are you there”
    From his point of view
    I didn’t need anything
    My mom would provide it all
    Thus the burden was past to me
    Would I leave my children, like he left me

    Children arrived one at a time
    After a while I started to understand
    It isn’t easy to be a father, to be a man
    I reached out again
    Just one more time
    Arranged a visit sporadically
    Ended up in his home for the night
    Not necessarily comfortable
    But just something I needed to do
    Even saw pictures of my “nephews”
    With the same dimples that my two have
    Regardless of individual feelings
    Genetics are still passed

    That was the end of that chapter
    We connected a few more times
    Nothing significant
    Just no longer had any interest
    But somehow that one scene
    It still gets to me
    On the Fresh Prince of Bel Aire
    In one of the final scenes
    Will asking Uncle Phil
    “Why he don’t want me?”

  • Praying That

    Praying That
    Every single memory
    Will be cherished
    For an entire eternity
    That somehow
    That love and joy
    Sustains you
    Forever more.

    Praying that
    When things go wrong
    The wisdom they shared keeps you going
    That special memory
    That you remember
    Continues, holding your dreams forever
    That your sadness finds comfort
    Knowing joy will come after.

    Praying that
    The accomplishments you’ll make
    That you never underestimate
    Know that they are so proud
    And that they’ll always be around
    Saying I’m so proud
    Accept that change is inevitable
    But life is perpetual.

    Praying that
    You will always say their name
    Even when no one else can
    Believe in life, like life believes in you
    Allow your heart to heal
    No One will ever know how you feel
    May comfort stay by your side
    And the strength of God’s will.

  • Waiting

    Waiting on the steps
    From the dawn of light
    Anticipating the excitement
    From last night
    Plans was made
    Times agreed
    Made sure I was washed up
    Eat up
    Ready for anything

    Dawn turned to day
    Way before pagers and cell phones
    Ringing the house
    No one was home
    Patiently waiting
    Mom tryna convince me
    It’s better to wait inside
    So afraid to miss my ride
    Just counted the cars go by

    Day turned to evening
    Friends coming back
    Full day of sweating and playing
    Asking if I’ll go for round 2
    Nah, I said I was waiting for you
    Continued to wait
    Excitement in me
    Every-time I saw
    Car lights slow down momentarily

    Evening gave way to night
    Crickets starting
    Lighting bugs now visible
    Steps my anchor
    Misery my crucible
    Mom says you just called
    That you apologize
    You’ll make it up
    First time I no longer gave a fuck

    Night turned into a new day
    Kept tryna to think
    What did I do
    Why didn’t you come get me
    I was good all week
    Got all my work done
    You promised to be there
    I didn’t know lying was acceptable
    Maybe I was just gullible

    New day turned into New Years
    Same little promise
    But now I know
    As plain as I can see
    Your words and actions
    don’t mean the same thing
    We was never the same
    Always saw you differently
    Never again wanted that pain

  • Child is Born

    Since I realized I was alone
    Since I realized he was never coming home
    Accepting the loss within me
    Learning everything independently
    There were always others around me
    But none of them looked like me

    Inherited love in a different feeling
    Embedded in the concept of creation
    Complicated in that new beginning
    Proudly smiling at the planted seed
    The proud excitement of something new
    Always had that with you

    Wrote down every promise
    Each and every action I pledged to keep
    Looking retrospectively
    Mirror gave me all that I need
    Every gap and hole in me
    Providing you every opportunity

    That day finally arrived
    Wish I could have captured
    That tear from my eye
    That love anew
    Never knew love
    Like I knew it with you

    Conception of history
    Realization of everything in me
    Damnation struck me down.
    Evolution couldn’t stop this now.
    Perpetuation of something renewed.
    Redemption of this crown.
    My life now sworn.
    My child is born.

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  • Eternity

    Eternity

    Eternity of vengeance
    Lays beneath my skin
    Absorbing every pain
    Every situation I’m in
    Gently gliding fluidly
    Patiently feeling unity

    Eternity of envy
    Admiring possessive beings
    building their happiness
    Creatively framing this
    Projecting different opportunities
    Anxiety of empty dreams

    Eternity of forgiveness
    Voided understanding
    Impossibility treating you differently
    Imagining you weren’t damage
    Awoke inner savage
    Hardened into hatefulness

    Eternity of kindness
    Sweet summer breeze
    Surf rising below your knees
    Remembering the hatefulness
    Accepting gracefulness
    Rejecting the peace in this

  • Blessing for Me

    Everyday is a new blessing for me
    Not talking about waking up or what I see
    Talking about that new energy
    That new passion, pushing through life’s uncertainty
    It’s about that new idea seeded inside of me

    The conversations are a blessing for me
    Encouraging the moves and flexibility
    Being open to a new possibility
    I thought I was the shit, but that was the old me
    This is a new grind, a way of life to see
    Everything about this fills me abundantly

    The excitement is a blessing for me
    I don’t get up I race up like the Grand Prix
    I’m screaming, I’m yelling, sacrificing everything
    Gotta make use of this blessing’s bounty
    Got my strategy delivering objectives daily
    I’m grinding, persevering, relentlessly

    Wait to you see, what God has for me!

  • Life Ain’t Easy

    Life ain’t easy.
    But it wasn’t meant to be this hard
    It isn’t right for a father to leave
    Only those that have seen that door close
    We are the only ones that know
    No matter what words
    Or vain explanations are given
    There is a void created
    When the man that made you
    Abandons you.

    Life ain’t easy.
    Just a lot of attempts to try different things
    In principle, we have that guiding force
    That intentional opportunity
    Our predecessor making the road easy
    Fatherhood is by choice, not bonded in pregnancy
    We can be a father to anyone
    Including someone else’s seed
    It also means
    It can be turned off, quickly.

    Life ain’t easy
    When you have your own seeds
    The purpose of life becomes clearer
    The love we have for our children
    Oft times too much to even fathom
    Then that hurt grows deeper
    Asking, Why doesn’t he love me,
    Like I love them?
    No one knows God’s plan
    Please believe we are still in God’s hands.

    Life ain’t easy
    But we want the easier road
    Every pain and tear had a reason
    And after enduringly long seasons
    We are stronger than our father will ever know
    The lesson is this….
    When you give your own
    That heartfelt forehead kiss
    Make that your daily promise
    That you will never give them the pain
    That was given to you.

  • Is

    Is

    Is my heart still beating
    Is my mind still thinking
    Something is so unreal
    Can not describe how it feels
    Consuming my inner being
    More than what you are seeing
    That perception, not my reality
    Tired of being me

    Is life worth living
    Is air worth breathing
    The end looking tempting
    Cannot release this feeling
    Failed so miserably
    Every effort into meaningless things
    Stifled into mediocrity
    What happened to me

    Is this my past
    Is this my future
    Lost every present I have
    Counting sand in the hourglass
    Pain don’t last
    Enduring horrid’s mystery
    Life and me

    Is life fair
    Is life hard
    Really don’t care
    Can not fathom being free
    Guessing that feeling
    Feels like endless opportunity
    Unfulfilled destiny

  • Following sunshine

    Following sunshine

    Following sunshine
    Early morning stretch
    Reaching to the depths
    haven’t even started yet
    So I take a deep breath
    Not sure what I have left
    Nothing short of miraculous
    Heart so gracious

    Following sunshine
    Everything on my mind is mine
    Thankful for everything in me
    Now I’m wondering why me
    So I take a deep breath
    Accepting the world as I see it
    Not sure if I believe it
    Mind full of intent

    Following sunshine
    Not a cloud in the sky
    Seeing the full horizon
    Life is not surprising
    So I take a deep breath
    Knowing that clouds come and go
    Regardless of the sky
    I gotta keep moving by

    Following sunshine
    Sun approaching the end
    Darkest shadow creeps in
    Doing my best to object
    With endless energy
    I’m begging for synergy
    Integrating light and death
    Believing in faith and opportunity

  • Trying with all my will

    Trying with all my will

    Trying with all my will
    Hoping to maintain this deal
    For far too long
    It’s been hard to stay strong
    Overly dependable and suitable
    Going through travesty
    Like I was a your majesty

    Trying with all my will
    Accepting life’s deal
    With all its joy and pain
    Some of it left me
    With everlasting stains
    Yet I hold it all in
    Only way to win

    Trying with all my will
    Avoiding every drug, every pill
    Non-alcoholic drinks
    Just naturally sit and think
    Every decision made
    Imagining a different reality
    No matter what, it’s still me

    Trying with all my will
    Watching clouds traverse
    Seeking into hip hops classic verse
    Trying not to lose my head
    Some mornings I wake up dead
    Piecing this life like weather
    Each revolution forever