PINNED UP IN A CAGE
NO WHERE TO ESCAPE
JUST ABOUT ALL I CAN TAKE

EVERYBODY PULLING ME ONE WAY OR ANOTHER
DO THIS ……DO THAT….. I NEED NEED NEED
I’M BEGINNING TO NOT BE ABLE TO SEE CLEAR

A WOMAN ALWAYS HOLDING IT DOWN FOR OTHERS
NO MATTER THE CONSEQUENCE…… BUT BET NOT
NEED A FAVOR ….THE DOOR WOULD BE CLOSED
WITH A MENTION OF A DOWN STROKE OF THE WORD

WORKING …COOKING….CLEANING…. ATM MACHINE … COUNSELOR
CONFIDANT ….PROBLEM SOLVER FOR EVERYONE BUT MY OWN
BUT SOMEWHERE I FORGOT ABOUT ME WITH SUBCONSCIOUSNESS
I KNOW … I WAS SUPPOSE TO BE TO AT THE FOREFRONT OF THIS RECKLESS TRAIN BUT METAPHORICALLY I LET MYSELF BE PLAYED

BUT TO KIND HEARTED TO COMPREHEND ….
TIRED AND MENTALLY STRAINED
FROM BEING USED OVER AND OVER AGAIN….
IT’S LOOK LIKE ITS TIME FOR A BETTER PLAN

TIME TO CLOSE MY EYES TO VISUALIZE
ALL THAT NEEDS TO BE AND GET BACK TO BEING ME
BEFORE…. I’M KNOCKED OFF MY FEET

IT’S COMING IT’S COMING I SEE IT
CLEARLY …NOW WHAT HAS TO BE DONE
THE WATERFALLS MUST COME
SO I CAN GET MY REST ON AND ON AND ON

CASCADING ….. ROARING… WITH RAINBOWS SPARKLING
FROM THE SUN .. SHE’S GOING TO BREAK DOWN THESE
BARRIERS TO TAKE ME TO MY OASIS

I KNOW MANY MAY THINK ITS SELFLESS AHHHHHHHHHH BUT
WHO CARES …. TIME FOR THE MIST OF THE WATERFALLS TO COME
TO PURIFY ME BACK TO THE WOMAN WHO KNOWS WHAT SHE
DESERVES …THEY HAD ME BENT FOR A MINUTE
THEY REALLY DID

SO EXCUSE ME WHILE I LET THE GREY CLOUDS
THAT CIRCLE ME… BE RINSED AWAY AND LET MY
MIND…BODY…SOUL….OF LIBERATION COME BACK TO ME
IN THE STRONGEST WAY

STARLET WILLIAMS
©3/12

SHE STARES AT THE MAJESTIC MOON GOT HER HEAD ON STRAIGHT BUT CAN’T HELP BUT WONDER…WHY SHE FEELS SO ALONE

CAN’T CATCH HOLD TO WHY SHE HAS NO MAN OF HER OWN SEEMS THEY JUST LOOK RIGHT THROUGH THE GIFT SHE IS STRONG NEVER APOLOGETIC FOR WANTING MORE THAN JUST A SCORE

WISHING ONE DAY HER KING…. WILL ONE DAY BE HERE AND PUT HER AT EASE AS HE PLEASE CONTROLLING HOW SHE FEELS BUT THE LONELINESS STILLED WELLS WITHIN NOT WANTING TO DROWN IN THESE LONELY SKIES IN THESE LONELY NIGHTS

PRAYING FOR HER KING TO ARRIVE ….THE COMPANION TO BE BY HER SIDE FOR LIFE BUT ONLY FAKE INTENTIONS HAS CROSSED HER LONELY EYE’S HOPE THIS BE A MIRROR TO HER PASS……….GAZE…..GAZE AT THE INDIGO BLUE IS ALL SHE CAN DO….. UNTIL LONELINESS COMES TO REST AS SHE CRY’S TO THE HEAVENS ABOVE

SHOUTING LONELY….LONELY……AS CAN BE………………. BRING HIM TO MY SIGHT SO THERE WILL BE NO MORE LONELY NIGHTS.

(SDW)© 3/2012
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With a hour to rehearse
I’m in the mirror spittin verse
But my verbs are mangled
And my delivery is tangled
My flow is unnatural
Seems like I’m forcing it to fit
Like sex with a little spit
I want to savor every hit
Nauseous is my nouns
I get a stinky face frown
From the un-welcomed sound
That’s take over my grammar
-Relax and breathe
Unloosen my collar and free my sleeves
Put my thoughts at ease and mind in a happy place
Think of a lovely face
As she sits in the front row
I’m wondering how high will she go
As the moment sweeps away my kite
My vocabulary is tight
Like music in flight
The words start to flow easier
Natural and intact
She’s brown with a hint of black
Coke in a bottle
Takes more than one swallow
To contain her fizz, I’m curious about her biz
As her cup run-neth over
And spills onto the floor
She exits the back door
As I finish my set
I take a five-dollar bet
That Jack got her wet
She introduces herself politely
The finest goddess I ever did see
When I go to speak, my voice has a tweak
My verbs are mangled
And my delivery is tangled
My flow is unnatural
Seems like I’m forcing it to fit
Looks like I need a little spit

Spittin

City

Black and White…a visual misconception? Scientifically they have nothing to do with physical color; they’re actually the lack of. Realistically speaking the “colors” black and white are more like depths of field in the world of photography, geometry and the universe etc; they are considered “opposites” that give life and form to actual colors…red, blue, yellow, green etc. Funny huh – from the birth of man these two “backgrounds” of the spectrum have created landslides of positive and negative social commentary worldwide. These “non-colors” are responsible for moments of change in political history, breaking the boundaries of education, voting, employment, segregation, peace and war; the list goes on and on …not too bad for being in the background! Is it the colors or is it just man??

Opposites, a powerful word when used in a certain light. Straight or Gay, Good or Evil, Ying and Yang. The list is long; we as people are opposite, but we all balance each other out. Just like the sun and the moon, Earth and Mars, land and sea…what happens if you remove one of these forces or heavenly bodies, well the other will go haywire and man probably wouldn’t survive.

We have to bring some gray into our lives, a happy medium where color doesn’t play a role. It’s the point you dangle on when you are just happy to be, when you can put all things aside …race, politics, religion and daily grinds. When you can sit quietly and read or walk your dog in peace. It’s that drive up the coast or watching your children at play…its middle ground. It’s harmonic and waltzing, smooth and slow in time…I love living in they gray, I think it’ll add more years to my life…find your peace my friend.

City

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Black

I thought it meant beautiful
And they said it’d never crack
But when I think about black
And what’s done behind my back
You wonder why I react
With hostility
Why I’m angry and distraught
Well King taught me to turn the other cheek
And most times I do
But I also love Malcolm
Who said “by any means necessary”
How can you keep playing me?
How can you keep slaying me?
Mistaking me for a hoodlum
For a gangster…or a thug
If my shirt isn’t snug
Or my jeans hang to low
Does that mean I always fit the description?
Like Chapelle said a black man between 5’9” and 7 feet
I just wanted a bite to eat
And it happened to be a little cold
This shit is getting old
How many more petitions must we sign?
Just to get day within the constitution
I’m tired of this prostitution
This institution without any restitution
You call this freedom and the American dream
I just wanted candy and some ice cream
Maybe some ice tea or chips
But you drew from the hip
Killing my dreams
And everything you said America stood for
That shit went out the back door
Black
I thought it meant beautiful
And they said it’d never crack
But when I think about black
And what’s done behind my back
You wonder why I react….Trayvon Martin

City

©2012 dlwilliams
Derrick Williams

I DON’T NEED A MAN BLUES GOT A LOT OF US MESSED UP

KNOWING DAMN WELL IF GIVEN THE CHANCE WE WILL SNAP A GOOD BROTHER UP

NEVER WEAK TO EXCEPT ANYTHING THAT BE SWEET WHEN SHE NEED TO BE…. HARD WHEN SHE NEEDS TO BE… YOU KNOW HOW IT IS

ON THE COOL YEARNING TO BE LOVED IS ALL SHE REALLY WANT’S …THAT SHE ALMOST SETTLED FOR THAT OTHER KIND OF BROTHER THAT’S CAUGHT UP IN HIS OWN WORLD OF MESS

LONGING FOR A MAN… BUT SOMETIMES SHOWS THE OTHER SIDE RUNNING AROUND HOLLERING I DON’T NEED A MAN TO COMPLETE ME

BUT WHAT NO ONE SEE IS THAT BEHIND THAT SMILE SHE’S REALLY LONELY INSIDE ..SHE JUST WANT’S THAT HUMAN ENTITY … SO HUNGRY FOR WHAT IT FEELS LIKE

NOT WANTING A TEMPORARY FIX …. SHE WANT’S LOVE WITH NO EXPIRATION DATE.. SHE KNOWS THAT THIS IS WHAT IT WILL TAKE

SHE’S THINKING DAY AND NIGHT WHAT MUST SHE DO.. TO SAVE HERSELF OF THE I DON’T NEED A MAN BLUES… KNOWING FULL WELL SHE WOULD SCREAM IT TO THE WORLD IF THAT MAN WAS BY HER SIDE

SHE’S NOT TORN OR IS SHE BITTER… HER WOUNDS HAVE BEEN HEALED AS SHE SITS BACK AND WAIT ON HER 9 OUT OF 10 MAN ON THE REAL

(SDW)© 3/2012
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I thought I had one but she became camera shy.
The creative part cries out in silence but yet some can hear it.
Frustrating as I want to feed it and therefore not let it die within.
I do not want yet another corpse held down by remorse within me.
I feed it what I can and promise that every day I awake I will bring it something even if just a taste.
I feel I cannot even give away my images for those that do not want me to even have their number/email.
How can I give away a part of me to someone that does not even trust me?
My art is a child of my soul!
How can I cast them/it into hand too cold to hold another person’s art with any value but free?
Thank you for all the kind words, Kim.
I can be intense or so it seems but when I am quiet ‘they’ ask why but when I speak they do not listen.
So that is why I cry in silence and my dreams turn to taciturn reflections off a broken mirror.
RastaRican

NOW YOU MAD CAUSE HE LET YOU GO……..SEE I’MA TELL YOU THE TRUTH IF IT’S RELATING TO YOU…….. I GET IT CAUSE I’MA WOMAN THAT HAS BEEN THERE TOO…….

SAD SO MANY MEN GET A BAD RAP CAUSE YOU GOING AROUND…. TELLING LIES CAUSING ALL KINDS OF HELL …… HOPING TO MAKE HIM LOOK BAD IN OTHER’S EYES… JUST CAUSE YOU DISPISE ………

HE PAYS HIS CHILD SUPPORT AND DO ALL OF THE EXTRA’S ….. EXCEPT’S HIS RESPONSIBILITIES …BUT YET YOU NEVER SATISFIED …SO YOU VICTIMIZE HIS RIGHT’S TO BE IN HIS CHILD’S LIFE…….

YOU MAKE IT HARD…… FOR HIM TO EXIST BUT HE REFUSES TO QUIT……. JUST CAUSE YOU STUCK ON MISERABLE … ALWAYS TRYING TO CONTROL THE SITUATION WITH YOUR VINDICTIVE WAYS…AND REALLY YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED……..

BUT BE CAREFUL YOU NEED TO LET YOUR ANGER GO…… CAUSE THAT VERY HATE YOU IN STILL THAT PRECIOUS SOUL ….TOWARDS A FATHER CAN TURN HATE ON TO YOU AND THIS IS SOMETHING YOU DO NOT WANT TO DO………..CAN’T YOU SEE YOUR BREAKING A CHILD’S HEART NOT ALLOWING A FATHER TO TAKE PART……….

PLEASE BELIEVE WHEN I SAY THIS WITH LOVE FROM WOMAN TO WOMAN …….STOP BEING A CRAZY ASS BABY MAMA……COME ON IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU … REALLY WHO HURTS FROM WHAT YOU DO……….. IT’S THE CHILD YOU GAVE BIRTH TO…..

STOP AND BE THANKFUL YOU ARE BLESSED TO HAVE A MAN WHO WANT’S TO BE INVOLVED WITH ALL HIS HEART ……. SO STEP ASIDE AND LET THAT MAN BE A FATHER TO HIS CHILD.

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© (SDW) 3/2/12

God has a positive answer:

YOU SAY GOD SAYS BIBLE VERSES
You say: “It’s impossible” God says: All things are possible (Luke 18:27)
You say: “I’m too tired” God says: I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28-30)
You say: “Nobody really loves me” God says: I love you (John 3:1 6 & John3:34 )
You say: “I can’t go on” God says: My grace is sufficient (II Corinthians 12:9 & Psalm 91:15)
You say: “I can’t figure things out” God says: I will direct your steps (Proverbs 3:5- 6)
You say: “I can’t do it” God says: You can do all things (Philippians 4:13)
You say: “I’m not able” God says: I am able (II Corinthians 9:8)
You say: “It’s not worth it” God says: It will be worth it (Roman 8:28 )
You say: “I can’t forgive myself” God says: I Forgive you (I John 1:9 & Romans 8:1)
You say: “I can’t manage” God says: I will supply all your needs (Philippians 4:19)
You say: “I’m afraid” God says: I have not given you a spirit of fear (II Timothy 1:7)
You say: “I’m always worried and frustrated” God says: Cast all your cares on ME (I Peter 5:7)
You say: “I’m not smart enough” God says: I give you wisdom (I Corinthians 1:30)
You say: “I feel all alone” God says: I will never leave you or forsake you (Hebrews 13:5)