Sy Bryant

Tag: Poet

  • Words keep Failing Me

    Words keep failing me
    Words keep failing me
    When I need them the most
    Bearing witness to travesty
    And I start thinking
    Is it just me?
    As I watching
    The pain escalates
    There’s no medication
    There is no relief
    Just because I close my eyes
    It doesn’t mean I concede
    Trying to articulate this
    This narrative
    Seen it all my life
    Yet I still wonder
    What it is?

    Words keep failing me
    When I need them the most
    Concrete jungle
    Will always exist
    Fighting since we were kids
    This infused battle
    Dedicated to prevent my rise
    You are the only combatant
    Claiming I am the hate
    If I become combative
    It just makes me
    Look in awe
    Trying to understand
    What the problem is
    When we were young
    Bullies were never stopped with words
    It’s hard to conceive you will
    Stop when I tell you
    I can’t breathe

    Words keep failing me
    When I need them the most
    I want to talk to you
    But I have to consider
    What’s embedded in you
    Still retaliating from
    Moorish invasions
    Still in pain
    From the crusades
    Claiming to fight for holy land
    All the time preparing the way
    For the slave trade
    Everyone is tired of fighting
    What are you so afraid of?
    What do you think I want?
    Regardless of the path
    You continue to receive love

    Words keep failing me
    When I need them the most
    Stuck in this perpetual motion
    Do I just escape?
    Claiming asylum in a foreign land
    But how safe would I be
    In a foreign land
    Do I just pretend that it is different
    Singing kumbaya
    While you stop someone else
    That looks just like me
    I do not hate me
    So I will never accept
    That hate you see in me

  • A Gift

    A gift
    Until it became a curse
    Remembering things
    I should be forgetting
    These things
    Holding onto me
    Focusing my mind
    On ruthless things
    Preventing me from living

    A gift
    Giving in hate
    Hateful ways
    Making grandparents say
    Be careful out there
    Like we in olden days
    Why is hate used
    In all types of ways
    Love is too powerful to control
    But hate can be manipulated
    In so many ways
    The catalyst of pain
    Stop Brutality
    Every Single day

    A gift
    When I get pulled over
    Shouldn’t I just expect a ticket
    Not sure what I did
    Use to wonder
    What was in it
    But definitely as I grew older
    Needed to be more controlled
    All that confidence I had
    Graduating with honors
    Three different times
    So needed that reminder
    Who am I
    Is more than in the mirror
    In THIS society
    Predicated on my skin
    And its who I am

    A gift
    Receiving it with care
    I’m not my forefathers
    Nothing you can do or say
    Will ever be fair
    I know the routine
    The agenda is repeated subtly
    Promises of changes in different ways
    The perception of ending evil days
    Guarantees of funding
    All these initiatives
    With the illusion to be free

    A gift
    It’s what I claim life to be
    Looking at it different presently
    Feeling so different and indifferent
    Ripping out the morality
    The values and expectations
    Those guiding principles
    All the intricate interactions
    Lost all satisfaction
    Knowing in 9 minutes
    It could all be finished

  • Abused American

    Abused American
    I know I am suppose to apologize
    With everything that was done
    I want you to know that I understand
    You had to do what you had to do
    Because I must have done something
    Something that I should not have done
    And I should have known it
    And I should just expect the punishment
    Because don’t I deserve it
    To be corrected
    To be ridiculed
    Because I love you so much
    That I know you will never
    Do me wrong
    Abused American
    For so long

    Will you grant me leave?
    Can I just say this one thing
    In this one way
    Can I share with you
    Everything that I have been going through
    Could you give me the opportunity
    If I am down on one knee
    If nothing else
    Just to share in my humanity
    Regardless of how I’m treated
    Irrespective of how I feel
    With a knee on my neck
    All I ask for is an appeal
    Is this so wrong
    Abused American
    For so long

    For so long
    Abused American
    That is my true demographic
    Waded in pools of blood
    Angered by my treatment
    When I try to speak the truth
    And you treat me worse
    Claiming I am being sarcastic
    Struck down with every progress made
    Institutionalized driven insane
    Crying out because of the pain
    Screaming because you beat me
    You do not even know my name
    I am only a reflection
    Of the hate you give
    Now that you are feeling it
    You want me to forgive.

    For so long
    Abused American
    Freed physically
    But that didn’t really matter
    Because you know
    It was my mind you were after
    Didn’t matter what city I went to
    Didn’t matter what profession I obtained
    The seed of subordination
    Etched into every last name
    There was no need to strike
    Yet you do it repeatedly
    I do not remember a single day
    That you haven’t killed someone
    That looks just like me
    So I can no longer hang on
    I can no longer turn my cheek
    Vengeance is not for meek

  • Clear to me

    clear to me
    Clear to me
    Plain to see
    Endless destiny
    Clear to me
    Just you and me
    It’s clear to me

    Darkness of the night
    Revealing everything
    Pitch of the blackness
    Bringing Clarity to this
    Desperation causing sanity
    Everything so clear to me

    Hoping in the nightmare
    Dreams, I don’t care
    Futuristic let downs
    Worry intruding
    happiness eluding
    Optimism so clear to me

    Never ending night
    Encapsulated every chance
    Despair’s misery loves me
    Rapture into everything
    Blindly protecting me
    Love so clear to me

  • Opening a new…

    Opening a new
    Opening a new day
    So much in me I need to say
    You keep pressuring me
    Waiting on something I cannot give
    I can forgive you
    But I will never forget
    Every single day
    That my heart
    Was left out of place

    Opening a new text
    Badgering imagery
    I’m like damn what’s next
    If I give you my everything
    What’s left for me
    Cause when I need you for simple things
    You nowhere to be seen
    Yeah, you pretend
    But are you truly my friend?

    Opening a new email
    You laid it out
    In massive detail
    What is it that you want me to say
    I’m still here
    Still doing what I always did
    Even through all this pain
    You keep pushing and pushing
    Like you ain’t blame

    Opening a new call
    And you saying it all
    How I ignore you
    I don’t love you
    the pain keeps me praying
    So what should I do
    When all I can do
    Is Trust that you will always
    Just be you

  • That night in London

    London
    The London lights, center of the world,
    so much diversity and things to see.
    Yet none of them lights are shining on you.
    I don’t need different people and different views,
    I just need you.

    There is so much opportunity and possibility
    of expression and occupation in a land so
    elaborated with culture. But how can I enjoy
    the beauty of artistic metaphors when
    I’m here alone.
    Longing to just need you.

    The curiosity the night invokes.
    The shadows hiding the physical and drowning out the spiritual.
    Day lights limitations become nights celebrations.
    Speaking spells in unfamiliar tongues tryna convince you
    I just Need You.

    Thoughts turn against me.
    Evaluating this situation of uncertainty.
    Got me believing in fantasy and mysteries,
    wondering how that night in London will change me.
    Change us.
    Why can’t you understand
    I just need you.

    Copyright 2018 Sy Bryant. All rights reserved

  • Beautiful YOU

    Beautiful You
    Beautiful you… can’t wait to see you
    Beautiful you….i’m missing you
    Beautiful you…everything about you
    Beautiful you…i’m missing you
    Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful you…

    Been away for some time
    Although we’ve talked
    Everyday
    Ain’t the same as
    Being with you
    Seeing you everyday
    I’m missing you
    Needing you
    Everything about you
    Plane touched down
    Texted you I’m landing
    Sitting here waiting
    Heart pounding
    Excited to hear
    You’re excited I am here
    Planning it out
    Figuring it out
    We gonna work it out

    Impatience building
    Sweetie feel me
    Desire driving me
    Without you, I’m empty
    Anxiety within me
    Can you see me
    Finally find you
    Thanking God
    I can see you
    All a new mystery
    Every single time I see you
    It’s a deep feeling in me
    Allowing me to feel you
    You don’t know
    How long I’ve been waiting
    In deep anticipating
    So glad to finally see you

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  • Felt It

    Felt It
    Felt it leave
    As surprisingly as it arrived
    Suddenly couldn’t close my eyes
    Tear drops damaging the phone
    Still trying to type
    But my will is gone

    Felt it start
    Didn’t know what it was
    Didn’t realize it was Love
    Grief like a fallen bird
    Straight down
    Not one word

    Felt it
    Expressed it
    Using verse to make it work
    Now pretending
    My will is unhurt
    This awful feeling

    Felt it
    Holding me all night
    Pushing through
    If blaming me,
    gives you serenity
    Blame me for everything.

  • Feeling It

    Feeling It
    Reality just set in
    Just realized
    Lost another friend
    Pain grows deeper
    With each link severed
    Feeling it.

    At least the feeling
    I felt was real
    Cause it feels hard
    To accept this deal
    Life just stopped
    Feeling it.

    From a few words
    Just like that
    You’re gone
    Felt like things
    Were moving along
    Feeling it.

    Deep breathing
    Cause involuntarily
    Something just stopped
    Everything just stopped
    Life Buried
    Feeling it.

    Because Love is Love
    Love is always there
    Tried, and messed up
    Now it’s messed up
    Friendship Gone
    Feeling it.

  • Closer To You

    Closer to You
    This whole mystery, thinking deeply
    There must be something I can say
    Has to be something I can do
    Trying every possible solution
    Anything to feel closer to you

    So many times I under appreciated you
    Believing each day would have your smile
    Watching your confident sass
    Always a quick glimpse at that ass
    Anything to feel closer to you

    Smiles, fill time I’ll never see
    Tears, Slowly eroding your energy
    I would bring you this world, mile after mile
    I would catch every tear for one smile
    Anything to feel closer to you

    Feeling like I’m on the brink of disaster
    Pondering if I was just empowered
    Would that be enough to reach your trust
    Fueling my energy with every memory of you
    Anything to feel closer to you

  • In This Love

    In This Love
    Feeling so in love
    In this place
    That feeling of grace
    Unbridled trust
    Consumed by lust
    Deep in this love

    To the end from the end
    Wherever the wind blows
    Cast into that first strong gale
    Guided into the conundrum
    Following that pulse of serenity
    Lost in this love

    Arriving in paradise
    Glistening skin
    Akin to pure sacrifice
    Forgo all the foreplay
    No other way
    Straight into this love

    Contemplating this and that
    The oceans winds take me back
    Losing all I held dear
    One last tear
    Anxiously being patient
    Striving toward revelations
    Far from being in this love

  • Chasing

    Chasing
    Chasing, endlessly pursuing
    Wanting elusive things aloft beings
    Experiences unmet
    Energy spent wanting

    Chasing, constantly waiting
    Hoping for a different outcome
    Feelings damaged
    Faith diminished

    Chasing, patiently seeing
    Living a tumultuous fantasy
    Life wasting
    Laugh gone

    Chasing, new reality
    Looking, new paths revealed
    Patiently waiting
    Pleasing satisfaction

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  • Serenity

    Serenity

    Seeking serenity
    Looking into every past
    Each person touched
    Every place with a tear
    All the pain that was left

    Asking serenity
    Feeling the variability
    Unlimited choices
    So many missed steps
    The past anchors me

    Speaking serenity
    Talking life
    Into everything
    Realizing pain instantly
    Life not for me

    Feeling serenity
    Every breath precious
    Each pulse exaggerated
    Planted synergy

  • Reminded

    sometimes
    Sometimes that shadow
    It scares me
    And I’m always reminded
    You aren’t here with me

    Sometimes that time
    Watch it tick away
    And I’m always reminded
    This is a lonely way

    Sometimes that wind
    Knocks me over
    And I’m always reminded
    Loves takeover

    Sometimes that dream
    Takes over me
    And I’m always reminded
    Life ain’t over

    Sometimes that love
    Engulfs me
    And I’m always reminded
    That you love me

  • can’t live without IT

    withoutIT
    Can’t live without IT
    Taking for IT granted
    Sucking IT in
    So readily Available
    I unconsciously take IT
    Without asking
    Arrogantly consuming
    Every single drop
    I’ll never stop

    Can’t live without IT
    Never know it’s gone
    Until I need IT badly
    Feel like I’m dying from thirst
    Scream IT proudly
    Never had IT naturally
    My entire life getting
    Every drop from some pipe.

    Can’t live without IT
    But heard I could go a few days
    But that pain that develops
    Turns into a crave
    IT starts driving me until
    I’m driving to the craziest thing
    Claim to be finicky until
    That burden is upon me

    Can’t live without IT
    But at times I do try
    Thinking I don’t have more time
    Staying with IT like
    I need to prove I don’t need IT
    Then all of a sudden
    IT just comes over me
    And consumes me
    Didn’t even know IT happened
    Until IT has ended

    Can’t live without IT
    But I wish I could
    Sacrificing everything in me
    For peaks and valleys of happiness
    Embraced in ITs clutches
    Draining every last breath
    Run from IT if I could
    Struggle with and without IT
    And always misunderstood
    ….Love

  • Brick by Brick

    Brick by Brick
    One day,
    long ago,
    I let my inhibition go
    Never trusted anyone fully
    not even my own self
    Always maintain control
    regardless of what I know
    By the time I realized my guard was down,
    My whole wall was knocked down.

    Scrambled around tryna find each brick that fell
    None was is sight.
    No protection the new norm
    Crawled around.
    All around tryna find one,
    major L
    Nothing left to do but endure this mysterious storm

    Each year around the sun,
    my skin got tougher
    Every month of the year,
    my grit got tighter
    The days of year,
    found that street hustler
    Ready to fight.
    Ready to die.
    That Stunner.

    Building up.
    Building strong.
    Brick by brick.
    Working hard.
    Working long.
    Brick by brick.
    Striving far.
    Striving deep.
    Brick by brick.
    This time is for me,
    To build this wall again.

  • Waking up … for so long

    Waking Up
    waking up
    Every hour last night
    In my thoughts
    Felt like there was
    A lot On your mind
    Had this crazy sense
    You, alone, deserted
    Treated so wrong
    For so Long

    waking up
    Every word I said
    Reviewed and critiqued
    Understanding why
    No one sees the best me
    Too slow to improve
    Selfishly rude
    Conclusion jumping
    For so Long

    waking up
    Shit feel different
    Nothing changed
    But just feel distant
    Just guilt getting me
    Most times
    Mental is closed to me
    Missed the opportunity
    For so long

    waking up
    Knowing this
    Concern comes
    When Love is
    Still smiling
    All the time
    Feel love loving me
    Something I really need
    For so long

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  • 6ix Sense

    6ix Sense
    Just now understood the 6th sense
    Everything just started making sense
    Seeing life with a fictional lens
    Non-Fiction don’t always end driving the Benz

    Living in my fantasy life
    Kept thinking happiness existed in every life
    Wanted to believe in mystical things
    Thought prayer and hope led to beautiful things

    The sense of the 6th degree
    Woke me up to the reality
    People going to be who they are
    Don’t believe in people’s words shit don’t go far

    It’s a blessing to wake up from the dream
    Tired of the tears hiding the scream
    Seeing life with a new devotion, a stronger focus
    Knowing what’s important without emotion.

    That 6th sense was the answer so it seems
    Remembering the past as a stranger
    Things I thought, I know I didn’t really see
    I just imagined shit that would never be

    Eyes wide open the truth hurt
    No one to blame that’s the shit that really hurt
    Looking in the mirror, like is you insane?
    Purposely hurting yourself like you don’t know your own name.

    Copyright 2018 Sy Bryant. All rights reserved

  • These Songs

    Songs
    Listen
    No I feel them
    Can remember them
    More than anything I’ve ever seen
    Hear this thing in my dreams
    Somehow speak for me
    In some way they feel me
    These songs

    It’s on or off
    They muse me
    Even bring me from my own despair
    Remind me that I am the creator
    Creating this thought I’m holding on to
    Creating this feeling about you
    Reliving this pain when I’m around you
    Powerful harmony
    These songs

    The original high
    Powerful enough to lead soldiers to die
    Soothing enough ease a baby’s cry
    Proportionally voices increase strength
    Harmoniously instruments increase potency
    But that lone sound,
    that touches me
    Wake me from the depth
    Create new life
    These songs

    Classically
    I get jazzed up
    Silently the blues comfort me
    The rhythm & blues can’t Pop me
    But The rhythm & poetry rock me
    Only feel one country
    But that feeling of the religious folk
    It somehow was electronic
    Whether vocal or instrumental
    these songs.

    Copyright 2018 Sy Bryant. All rights reserved

  • April Sun

    April Sun
    The sun, on my face, made me sense your caress
    Upon my back your hands moved (gently)
    Endlessly I felt your empathy healing my doubt lost in sympathy….

    April sun, don’t go….
    Need you around so I know….
    Know our love will be…
    Forever.
    April Sun.

    Mornings sweet voice, told it all.
    The sun so close, thought love would burn my soul.
    Do you know, can you feel, this is really real.

    April sun, don’t go….
    Need you around so I know….
    Know our love will be…
    Forever.
    April Sun.

    That April Sun, just begun, May is near,
    yet it’s so so clear. Without you I’m not here.
    April Sun brought me you, so scared of what May will do.
    ,
    April sun, don’t go….
    Need you around so I know….
    Know our love will be…
    Forever.
    April Sun.

    But That April sun so good,
    I can’t let go, even if I thought I could,
    I’m gonna have to spend May, June, July and August with you.

    Copyright 2018 Sy Bryant. All rights reserved

  • She’s my sister

    My Sister
    She is my sister
    If you could only comprehend
    Wait give me a minute, help you understand
    Bond strong enough to pull dreams through atmospheres
    Wait, listen here,
    I’m saying bond guaranteed like death is to life
    I’m saying I can depend on my kids life
    Without strife

    She’s my sister.
    She is my sister

    Don’t think this on some sensitive thing
    You do her wrong, have your family in the church doing that old negro spiritual She call, On the first ring I’m answering
    She text, I respond instantaneously
    There is no hesitation no wavering
    She speaks to me on that maturity thing
    A constant reminder to maintain that responsibility thing
    She’s on that “alright now…”
    like abracadabra my whole disposition change

    She’s my sister
    She is my sister

    Can’t tell you, since she moved from Philly,
    How much I miss her
    Only the speed of sound away,
    But there’s something to having your sister at the speed of light away
    Now we bond through exercising, she running, I’m cycling.
    Quick likes to know we still persevering
    Now we speak through stanza and prose
    She the only one that can inspire me on that deeper lyric.

    She is MY SISTER.

  • How can i be free

    How can i be free_
    Never known freedom
    Heard of people pretending they free
    still depending on others for their
    livelihood and liberty.
    How can I be free?

    Walking this earth
    With a name to constantly reinforce my dependency.
    Cannot farm the land.
    Cannot raise the livestock.
    Cannot source any water.
    How can I be free?

    I’m the midst of bureaucracy
    Tricking myself to love stories of fantasy instead of the reality I see. Stuck pursuing humorous ideas instead of healing peoples fears
    How can I be free?

    Knowing all that I know
    My inner desire is to create replicas of me lost in their own unrealistic fantasy. Perpetuating the lie. That I am free. If Freedom is not free.
    How can I be free?

  • When it’s raining

    When Its raining
    My sun went away
    Hidden so far away
    Life just ain’t the same
    When it’s raining.

    Restricting my moves
    Mind lost in stillness
    Where is that peace
    When it’s raining

    Laying here still
    Hate being still
    Accomplishing nothing
    When it’s raining

    I just keep this thought of you
    Real subtle scene just me and you
    Rain becomes comfort, because I love you
    When it’s raining.

  • Nothing to say

    Nothing to say.
    Nothing at all.
    Just wanted to do something.
    Something to excite you.

    Hoping deeply.
    With all I got.
    That when you get notified.
    It will get you hot.

    There are no words here.
    On this page is my heart.
    Sending my emotion.
    Pushing my beliefs.

    Here and Now.
    What you know bout
    Making someone complete.
    Be real. Give it your all.

    Cause I got……
    nothing to say.
    Nothing at all.

     

    Copyright 2018 Sy Bryant. All rights reserved

  • Lost So Much

    Lost So Much

    Lost so much, but still have everything
    Only possible loses are material things
    Remember seeing people transition
    The mystery is revealed in everything
    King Bryant proclaimed with thunderous sound
    As long as you say my name I live.
    So now I say it everyday
    Knowing he is still with me
    Recognizing I was mourning
    Future memories I didn’t even see

    Lost so much, but still have everything
    Only possible loses are material things
    Growing up with that key round neck
    That shit wasn’t easy for me
    Big as I was, not even two digits yet
    Walking past all kinds of mess
    Nothing to do at home but create fantasy
    Realized I wasn’t lonely, just was being me
    But I damn sure guaranteed
    My seed wouldn’t go that way

    Lost so much, but still have everything
    Only possible loses are material things
    Grew up with so much
    I was giving it away
    Thinking these little trinkets were in the way
    There was a whole world to see
    But I was so busy enjoying being me
    Meeting social expectations
    I ventured out, found out what the world was about
    Saw I wasn’t missing a thing, but me

    Lost so much, but still have everything
    Only possible loses are material things
    seeing pain from different points of view
    From nicotine, from alcohol, sex, narcotics
    From fixing cars, fixing the yard, painting new paint
    People doing anything to avoid what life brings
    I saw a bunch of people out in this world
    Trying to find that solitude that I released
    Laughing at the the psychology of my disbelief
    We are all missing the opportunity to be me

  • Biggest Fan

     

    Your biggest fan
    Here I am
    Nothing will distract me
    From helping you to see
    Your potential is abundantly
    So I am here just screaming
    Your biggest fan

    Your biggest fan
    Here I am
    Nothing will distract me
    From helping you to see
    Your potential is abundantly
    So I am here just screaming
    Your biggest fan

    I see you, Even from a distance,
    admire you with a subtle glance,
    I’m out in the day light cheering
    Quietly at night praying
    That you have all you need
    To fulfill your fantasy

    Your biggest fan
    Here I am
    Nothing will distract me
    From helping you to see
    Your potential is abundantly
    So I am here just screaming
    Your biggest fan

    Some days you hang your head low
    Blindly staring out that window
    Contemplating missed opportunity
    Slowly sinking mentally
    No need to worry
    No need to care
    if you need me I’m right here

    Your biggest fan
    Here I am
    Nothing will distract me
    From helping you to see
    Your potential is abundantly
    So I am here just screaming
    Your biggest fan

    There is so much to be proud of
    It’s not in vain, you’ve given everything
    You have the house, kids are growing
    Everything was for a reason. Soon.
    It will be time for you to enjoy
    Your own season.

    Your biggest fan, here I am…
    Your biggest fan, here I am…
    Your biggest fan, here I am…

    Here I am…. just for you… there is nothing you cannot do….

     

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  • Deep in my Desire

    If I think deep

    Deep in my desire

    Its pure energy, creates its own gravity

    Pulling everything I need, keeping it close and dear

    If I pray deep

    Deep in my desire

    Sustainable peace, in arms reach indefinitely

    Protecting, guiding, far more than merely surviving

    If I believe deep

    Deep in my desire

    Woman in my life, that ride or die wife,

    Supporting, encouraging, every single dream

    If I am deep

    Deep in my desire

    Indestructible soul, cannot be consoled

    Feverishly striving to conquer and unite all I see

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  • Relentless

    I would do anything to find that spot.
    Relentless.
    I will make you beg me stop.
    Relentless.
    I want to be your weakness.
    Make you forget everything you had to do.

    Relentless.
    Ease your mind
    Relentless.
    Heal your soul
    Relentless.
    Energize your body
    Relentless. Just you and me.

    So focused on you.
    As soon as you walk into the room.
    Everything else must stop.
    No phones.
    No post.
    No anything.
    You are the most important thing in everything I do. I am relentless when it comes to you.

    Relentless.
    Ease your mind
    Relentless.
    Heal your soul
    Relentless.
    Energize your body
    Relentless. Just you and me.

    Tonight.
    I saw you.
    And I just knew.
    I had to have you.
    Think I love you.
    Relentless.
    Fearless.

    Relentless.
    Ease your mind
    Relentless.
    Heal your soul
    Relentless.
    Energize your body
    Relentless. Just you and me.

    You about to know how deep I can go.
    in this space.
    I will be up in your face.
    Loving you forever.
    Relentlessly.
    Pleasing.

    Relentless.
    Ease your mind
    Relentless.
    Heal your soul
    Relentless.
    Energize your body
    Relentless. Just you and me.

     

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  • Desperate Attention

    Yearning solitude

    Pursuing anyone

    Irrelevant person

    Desperate attention

    Selfish attitude

    Invaded peace

    Limited proximity

    Desperate attention

    Affiliated quiet

    Grappling affection

    Irresponsibly loving

    Desperate attention

    Sheltered anxiety

    Intimate desires

    Instantly gratified

    Desperate attention

  • Sunshine

    Can I be that sunshine?
    can I give you energy when it’s dark?
    Can I be your morning spark?
    Can I lift you up and let you shine?

    Sunshine when you weak
    Sunshine when you can barely speak
    Sunshine when you are down
    Sunshine when no one else is around.

    Can I be that sunshine?
    Can I be that warmth?
    Can I help you see when you stuck?
    Can I be that peace of mind?

    Sunshine when you hungry
    Sunshine through your misery
    Sunshine nice and gently
    Sunshine and chill

    Can I be that sunshine?
    Can I be your word?
    Can I soothe what hurts?
    Can I call you mine?

    Can I be that sunshine?

     

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  • One Day

    One day, there will be a day for me.
    This day, I won’t be subject to false totality.
    This day, time is created for my own selfish pleasures.
    This day, I will be so high no one can see.
    This day, surrounded by beautiful warm waters I will be.

    One day, there will be a day for me.
    This day, no one will ask me for a thing.
    This day, the world will be at my beckoning.
    This day, time will have no bound
    This day, I can only hear beautiful sound

    One day, there will be a day for me.
    This day, I could walk on beaches endlessly.
    This day, my appetite is quench
    This day, my mind is free
    This day, is just for me.

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  • Give it to me

    Give it to me
    Sun rising through the clouds
    It feels so loud
    Hiding my eyes
    From this beautiful sunshine
    Don’t even know the time
    Deep breathing
    Crisp air is relieving
    It’s purity
    Fueling me

    Fueling me
    With all its energy
    Metaphorically transcendent
    Rising up the mountain high
    Objectively choosing steps
    Going for the highest high
    Blindly following faith
    Stand ready and braced
    Guiding me without a trace

    Guiding with without a trace
    Thanking god for his grace
    From this precious seed
    Did I survive, destined to survive
    Seeing so many fall
    It’s why I’m here standing tall
    In the prudence of hope
    On the last rope

    On the last rope
    Speak with conviction
    Winning wasn’t my intention
    Just the evidence of ascension
    Cannot remember every step
    Put every effort into every step
    Now I’m at the end of this
    Six feet under all of it

  • 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 modified techniques just to remain unique,
    so common enemies could walk 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.

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