What would I be without you both?Probably not much.A thought I don't like to imagine often,But,it comes across here and there every time I cough,And,Realize how neglectful I am of your presences,Yet,I have no idea how to take care of you both while I search for an answer.An answer so difficult to find when a... Continue Reading →
Our Time To Smile – Day 338, Never Give Up On Your Dreamz
A year of abstinence from inhaling chronic to set the record straight.My vices aren't in charge as I doctor myself back to good health,And,Tune into the fate in which God has made for me by wrapping my palms around another page,Another pen,Another poem I recite as I find my way back home within a stage.No... Continue Reading →
Bargain Sale – Day 337, Never Give Up On Your Dreamz
Assimilation has never been my style.Quite frankly,I'd rather be what God intended me to be.A man free from labels I was once forced to believe,Would lead me through a path worthwhile.Labels like drunk,Pot head,And,Rich!When all I really was,Was a child who tripped and fell into a ditch,Never to be found again until I rose from... Continue Reading →
The Busy Tone – Day 277, Never Give Up On Your Dreamz
Dejected,Rejected.Whichever adjective you pick,They'll both work the same.As I isolate from a world causing the kind of pain most don't come back from,Here I am,Alone in a daze.But,Not the kind where I'd hide behind a tree underneath some shade.The kind where you separate from a world,Taking refuge under God's palm while phased,By flesh calling for... Continue Reading →
Legion Of My Own – Day 273, Never Give Up On Your Dreamz
Seeking a legion of soldiers to go to war with is,Weaking treason against what's blocking my metamorphisis.What I need is a reason to keep moving forward in,A field fill of dreams in a season as hot as every corner with,A warning sign,Glaring in your face each time you pass by,Crash sites littered by packs besides,Minds... Continue Reading →
Breath Of A Dragon – Day 260, Never Give Up On Your Dreamz
Certain days,It doesn't feel like I'm human.I can't remember the last time I cried,Or,Laughed while enduring a contusion,Of emotions I've suffered at the hands of my own confusion.Confusion stemming from my refusal to quit what God deems useless.But,Maybe I've dried the well as I do my best to see different.Fluids tainted by bloodied fingertips,And,Specs of... Continue Reading →
All I Want Is Love – Day 252, Never Give Up On Your Dreamz (In Progress)
How do I survive?Every single night without a woman to suffice,My need for a touch deeper than the high,I get from a climax coming down like,Any other drug?All I want is love.And,A moment where I flush,Every ounce of blood,As red as the cheek of my beloved when I pucker up,And,Lay a kiss on the forehead... Continue Reading →
Burning Pupils – Day 251, Never Give Up On Your Dreamz
Haven't wanted to live for quite a while.Because,The feeling of breathing is soothing only if there's smoke flowing through my lungs.Love?Lost in pyros of pain ignited in the name of lust.One flick of my lighter,Still,Doesn't seem like it's enough to burn away these thoughts cluttering my mind while I crush,Buds while picturing everyone I've put... Continue Reading →
Music For The Sober – Day 242, Never Give Up On Your Dreamz
Everything else is better than sex,Drugs,Alcohol,Whatever gets you high for that matter.Back when they were all I thought about,My reality had shattered.Anytime I looked into a mirror,I was cracked further away from repair,Every second I stared into a man I believed wasn't there,Any longer...Anytime I hear glasses cling,As a sober man nowadays,It's music to my... Continue Reading →
Urn Your Way Out – Day 232, Never Give Up On Your Dreamz
This isn't a poem,Nor prose,Nor a monologue,But,A warning.A warning about how good drugs,Of any kind,Make you feel.How downers will lift you up from the sky,Just to drop you deeper into that pool of regret you've decided to swim in.How uppers will force you to crash into the ground,Like molten-red meteors blazing its way into soil... Continue Reading →