UNTIL WE ARE FREE!!!

Until we are free…

Our heads will forever be filled with Lye

The illusions of truth that burn our scalps

But the pain doesn’t make us stand up and listen

It’s the colonial condition

Illiterate rhymes, samples, re-recorded, regurgitated and never educating

The young as to where this music came

But until we are free…

Things will always BE..B.E.T

The same

Brothers professing, consumed by who got game

Women in tuned with hair do’s and fame

While our children are educated by societies diluted medium

That forever makes us walk blind with shame

But until we are free…

We will continue to drive…

Drive into concrete walls

With our escalades on 22”s

With our closets filled with thousands of shoes

While we blame every man, woman, child and Jew

The truth is we have the power to choose…

Choose the road that our children can walk on with pride

Where we can lift our heads up high

A road that we can truly say that we’ve tried

A road depicting success and freedom at no mans expense

But until we are free…

We will forever deny…

Deny ourselves of the Royalty we are

The knowledge, wisdom, and strength that resides inside

But if we never try to live…

Without…

The extensions of oppression

and begin to pay attention

Then until we are free…

We will forever be…

Pretentious, unconscious, mediocre slaves

Ruled by self indoctrinated oppression!

broken dreams

Broken dreams

Forgotten hopes

As I walk alone

The bricks crumble from beneath my feet

‘cause all I see is a tattered and torn street

Filled with another mans beat

As the Rasta fills the Man’s lungs with trees

They drive away mocking his accent with defeat

Brazilian Queen pours a wondrous song from her soul

As they watch her smoking another bowl

They all laugh and stare

Commenting on her hair

Some clenching their purses with fear

As they run back to their golden leers

Sadness devours my heart

Broken dreams

Forgotten hopes

As I walk alone

Contemplating, with a hesitant groan of a stranger behind me

I finally decided to take my tears home

But as I turned around to take one more look

Men of broken dreams

Woman of forgotten hope

Disappear right before my eyes

Straight into thin air

And there I was left to glare

Questioning were they ever really there

ten tears

My heart cries in the midnight hours

Mind wilts looking back at the lifeless flowers

And when these autumn leaves start to shower

I release a painful ocean

From my eyes unto the world

Beautiful beings

Sensual encounters

Still as I walk down crowded streets

Where the pavement and the concrete jungle are the only thing that beat

My eyes light up when familiar faces create an image of you

But my heart forever drops when you’re never there

And before it begun I knew it was over

But I cant help but wish we could start over

The old you and the true me

But deep down I know that this existence could not hold us….

Together again

So I write these last words of you in hopes that I can free

My mind, body, and soul of you

Some days your number is still at my finger tips

And moments of passion still reside on my lips

Never forgetting your grip on my hips

But reality states that you left five months short of a year

And here I am still shedding ten tears

1. for the love longed for from you
2. for the love that I truly believed was true
3. for my soul that you once set free
4. for the dreams that could never be
5. for the fear that love may defeat my very being
6. for the pain that I still retain
7. for every man waiting to love me, that I still compare to you
8. for my stupidity of denying my sight in hopes of bringing me nearer to you
9. for the woman that will set your soul free
10. for loving like a foul, loving a man, who doesn’t truly love you

could you be my love?

Could you be the man I longed to love?

Could you be the second turtle dove?

In quiet moments when I stare in to your eyes I find glimpses of me

From across the room I can hear your thoughts

You speak to me without words from your mouth

At times I truly wonder if you know what this is all about

You love a woman for who she is

Not the superficial pleasures she can bring

You love the short afro with tight curls

Sometimes you may think of lacing a women’s foot in pearls

But that’s because real Kings always treat their woman like a Queen

You can articulate the past

And refuse to be struck by Hollywood’s cast

You speak the truth

And from day I knew you were proof,

That real men exist

And manifest their thoughts on more than bliss

Could you be that man to bless my lips with an everlasting kiss

Show me that there is more to life than T. H. I. S…this

To walk down the street hand in hand

Observe the sunset with our feet engulfed in sand

Let me tell the world that you are my man

Could you be that man to help God you and I bring new life into this world

Love me until the sun goes down

Smile even when you’re mad, because only my kiss could remove your frown

Could you be that man to love me even if I gain a few pounds?

To let me love you and give you all I have to give

And never run from the oath we made to commit

Commit our lives to being true to one another

When I look at you I see the man God created for me

Could you be that man?

Will you be that man?

Cause I see that man

Come forth and take my hand

dancing in the dark

Dancing in the dark

Alone in an oblivious park

Stepping to the sound of the cool breeze

Swaying my hips along side the lonesome leaves

And as I close my eyes, inhale and breathe

I dare not remind myself that I stand alone amongst the trees

For the stars have put on a show for me

And I dare not give them the impression that I am not pleased

Stepping to the sound of the street

Snapping my fingers to my own beat

Entrenched in rhythm

Beats so deep they become as wondrous as a prism

The street lights light up the walk way

Encouraging me enticing me to lengthen my sway

Soon night will turn to day

And I’ll think to myself I may just have over done my stay

For the world awaits and many faces despise the way I play

So for now I will continue to dance in the dark

Until the world is ready to light up my park

unseen love

Born to breath

Born to please

Born to set souls free

But as I walk down this path

I can’t help but stop and see

That you were made for me

These words may only see this paper

And my feelings may only reach as far as the door

And when we meet again you may only stumble upon my smile

Without sight of the many miles you have already traveled along side me in my thoughts

In my mind we have traveled and conqured many seas

But in reality my love is simply a dying breed

And each day my words go un spoken

My heart grows impatient

Ripping my soul at the seams

Hoping that one day my heart will be caressed by thee