Watered Down

Shut up dread in my head

Lie instead

Show the meadows and rainbows 

Not the crooks and murders

Show the sunshine and clouds 

Not the rains and lightening 

Because showing the truth is hard

So keep it light please

They want people like me to shut up and be silenced

The news shows what's trending and you're a fool if you buy it

There splitting hairs but you don't care 

The news portrays a good dream but it's really a nightmare

I'm not scared but it's all written it's all there

They're not going to like you but hate you, because you go against what they believe

Because honestly you don't have to be great to achieve, at least not anymore 

Look at music and you'll find that current talents are by far mediocre 

Now a days walking down the street is a crime but keep protesting and parading for your rights 

Stay on the never going to win it fight

Truthfully I didn't see the answers clearly as I do right now 

The worst thing, as important as it is to Love

Forgotten and fabricated by most what we think is Love happens on the fourteenth of February, or on certain timeline post

Stop posting that crap please, you're a joke

Humanities view of love is so minute

It's true, true Love is written in the book

It's vividly describe as unconditional, non boastful, and never ending

But we put a price on it, boast about it and cut it off

This worlds foundation is crumbling, it's almost afloat 

Since most don't realize it by choice because there "love" is what matters the most 

Stupid

Close minded 

Not to mention blinded

While the truth floats off you wave goodbye to it while you stand on sand that's quick to change and be blown away

Stand on something worthy

Honest 

Love

Stand on that raw emotion of Love

The Love the one the guy who came down forty some generations talked about

The Love that built this world 

Stand on that instead of some over processed garbage that we imagine for ourselves 

Stand

I Can't See

I don't see that

I don't see what you see

This debate is fake on your half if you say you believe in what I do

How can that be true?

I'm not going to take a place atop a tower and cast shame downwards because that's not my place, it seems to be yours

I don't see that

I don't see where it says hate and separation is justified 

What faith is that?

I don't see confusion 

I see it clear I don't care about what color your skin is but how you treat me and how you care 

I don't say that you're wrong, the opinion is yours

But I'm left believing your closed mindedness has left you ignorant and safe inside your glass house

I hope you cherish your safety because I can't imagine you surviving this world without it

But I don't see love in your view

I may be bitter at times, that's rectifiable 

But your justified ignorance is not 

It may have been a while ago but it's not now

It's sad, very sad that you call yourself by the name of his people but lack the intelligence to know your faith is fake

You can't mix faith with hate

So don't ask me how I love a friend, who is a strong woman and loves a strong woman. Don't come to me questioning why an interracial couple would chose to have a child together, and that that child will grow up confused by what they are

Because I don't see what you see

Neither of our generations have witnessed the significant divide from our past so I don't play those cards

But I do play the card of being a child of his, knowing his view is nothing like what you see, nothing like the racial poisoning that you project and respect 

All I can do is pray, pray for the veil to be lifted off your eyes and pray that your offspring will not be ill effected by you 

I pray that he or she learns to just love, without conditions, learn that love is an international means of communication and it's more than just the color of your skin

IF

Every negative thought

Turned into a positive thought

All mountains moved

All the wrongs in the world were made right

I had a nickel for

I'd be rich for

Being rich financially is overrated 

Being rich makes you happy so must loneliness

I had been given that life over there

Things were different

I could make logic out of this jacked world

I could find happiness

All joy was truly easy to come by like breathing

Man I forgot to say if

There's Something Else

There's something else

Don't know what it is, or when it's coming or how

But I know there is something else

So if everyday is mundane

And the challenges are few

Are we to be acceptant of that?

Does the mundane lead to the greatness that we're promised?

To me no

So I'm left believing that there's something else

I'll hold onto that glimmer of something else until I die, no matter how small it is

Because change doesn't come from mundane and normal

Change comes from suffering, letting your faith and spirt be stretched 

to its point of breaking, and sometimes being broken is the bulb of the something else that is planted deep in the ground and over time forms the roots necessary to make a stronger, better plant

So I'll be here waiting for that something else, and you can join me or not

I Lick The Glass Of Your Life

A must be nice

Wonder what that life is like

My life is nothing quite

Like the picture I see of your L-I-F-E

But these windows taste alright
Like warmth, trust, strain and strife
Must be nice to be in a position of security
I wonder what that's like?
So I lick the glass of your life
Seeing into it, tasting the mix of love and compassion
Better than my own glass,
jagged and shattered, tasteless and bitter
Just pieces to a whole
The aftermath of destruction that has severely taken
a toll
My breath fogs up my view at times and
the coolness of the glass feels nice against my skin
sending chills all over my body
With my eyes darting back and forth as I watch
your life play out I question is that what life is like?
The comfort, the joys, the highs, the lows, the peaks,
the valleys, the support?
I don't know that normal, I don't know that life
So as my eyes droop and close, I fall asleep and dream
awaiting to tune into another one of your life episodes

Trust

Believe that everyone has a story

That the journey of life is where God takes you through battles, wars,  and afflictions to bring you to who he wants you to become

At times it may seem like he wants you to become a bitter, angry person, but that is only a part of it

The road traveled by a person employed by God is not easy, and a lot of times there is no kind of financial reimbursement 

But in the end it's worth it

No his way is not understandable, at times it's completely screwed up to our human eyes, unfair, and it can lead you to believe that the God you serve really doesn't care

But he does, he promised he would never leave or forsake us

So when life is riddled with more trenches than valleys

And good days are few

Trust in Gods production of your story

And he'll bring you through 

This Weather

This storm

The rain

A drought

Sunny

Overcast

Cloudy

Fair

Unfair

Cold

Sizzling hot

Snow

Ice

Sleet

Windy

Humid

Take A Minute

Signal on

Coast clear

I start to turn

Yelling, screaming for me to stop

But only one voice is heard

I stop mid turn exit and stand

I don't even know where I am

But still one voice

Head back to where I was in pieces or continue on toward home?

Leave things unfinished or keep on

Throw in the towel or just take a minute 

I'll take a minute, a breath

Let the cold night air settle in my chest

Realize that I still can

I realize I will

I will rise

I just needed a minute to catch up with myself

More

I been thinking

Finding a need for more

Not things of material

But something to live for 

The will is there

The reins are tried

The tears of today are easily dried

But where's more 

I've seen death close and 

I seem to know it more

But I want more of life

The breath that fills your lungs

The heart that beats

I want more

More life 

And I'm feeling like its right in my grasp

It's what I deserve

We all do 

We all deserve more