You Should Know (For Starters)

Title: Believe in Everything
Posted On: 2015-02-19 05:50:56 UTC

I've got my eyes on someone I've got my eyes on something Isn't it mundane To yearn for everything You don't mean to hurt nobody You just mean to be somebody Choices, decisions Forever or visions Don't make me choose tonight Cause if I'm not wrong I still won't feel right A balanced life just isn't exciting I need your pyrotechnic lightning I can't sell my soul to you right now I know we're overdue by now But I'm still optimistic about having cake and eating it It's all a game and contemplating on how to cheat it I want everything I wanna give everything I wanna be praised I wanna give you a wedding ring

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Title: Brotherhood
Posted On: 2015-02-10 19:25:25 UTC

Within black brotherhood We dap, we shake, you good? As always, I am, and will be But the days are never the same When I answer no Will my black brotherhood be Will my black brotherhood see My troubles, problems, as we Will you walk with my shadows Will you talk with my conscious Will I protect my brother In the midst of nonsense A universal pledge with melanin My brother, your brother Take Care, of us and our mother

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Title: Names & Rings
Posted On: 2015-02-05 01:51:16 UTC

I got the sign in sheet for class That's not the same last name you had Where did that ring come from Who took you to paradise Chances come, chances go It's way too late, to let you know But I learned how to let go Before I had to let go You found paradise in the city I wonder how'd the wedding go What a lucky guy Where do I find those clovers To keep my yearn & desire for someone From getting looked over

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Title: Beautiful Drug Addict
Posted On: 2015-02-02 17:50:14 UTC

Outside for hours in front of a store that exploits your subtle vices Who asked you to try this You're still something special Even with cocaine all over your nose, girl you're still special You still tell the world it's beautiful in the midst of your disaster Coruscate up the flame and the lights that kills your laughter You still know what it means to be noticed When you buy your cocaine, you should get a lotus

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Title: Happenings to Hope For
Posted On: 2015-01-31 01:31:30 UTC

To meet someone at an art gallery on a "Not Much To Do" Saturday Looking at pieces, disagreeing and agreeing with the interpretations Discussing our favorite artists, our favorite paintings Being nonchalant to the instant fire crackling by the second Stepping on each other's feet as our walk syncs immediately Finishing each other's sentences like we've been engaged for a year Mistake or not, I'd never forget something like that

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Title: Meeting Jhene's Chakra
Posted On: 2015-01-31 00:34:39 UTC

Sitting with all the energy I possess Hope for chakra levels where your hands caress Caress the holes of my chakras and stitch Stitch them with your passion for happiness & empathy Empathy is here, but subtle to society Society & you would love what I have to offer through art Art is all I have to offer besides my heart Heart on the edge of a building waiting for hands Hands that aren't dependable, I rather bury it in sand

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Title: Thinking of a Soul
Posted On: 2015-01-31 00:18:26 UTC

A blind man getting to see a California sunset A deaf man getting to hear piano melodies A sick man getting to smell flowers as they bloom Myself waking up to your existence whenever you decide to exist

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Title: Draking Right Now
Posted On: 2015-01-28 17:17:37 UTC

Meticulously designed poetry for your heart and soul Reserved space of warmth on a love couch Great number of hours gone without a trace of emotionality All my words forgotten, burned, or thrown away like nationalities Why bother writing poetry to girls who don't care They love guys who don't care When they still have your sweatpants And you still have rubberbands of hair

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Title: Feminist on the Mountain
Posted On: 2015-01-25 02:22:51 UTC

I talk about my dreams And you bring up my nightmares I wanna live for me You tell me it's bad for me I'm turning the lights off It's kind of chilly, I'll be back with a slight cough You won't smell my perfume anymore more You may be comfortable, but I want more You may have your rules but mama called me Maverick Savage, who are you Ravage on the roof, you're coming down I don't think I need you anymore As much as I did before I dug deep inside myself I realized I am the core I learned from the wolves near me Now you know why I'm defensive You let me look at the stars But you never let me fly

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Title: The Moment
Posted On: 2015-01-20 18:50:49 UTC

How do I touch a woman without it being sexual How can I explore her body, not for ecstatic responses Just to examine what's actually there It's a yearn to be a vice omniscient about someone I love Tracing the art God crafted Tasting the fruit God planted, not for her or my pleasure, but to get a precise taste of who she is To say, your skin and love folds taste exactly like a certain list of ingredients The tightness or loosened curls of your hair The curvaceous shape of your nose Where your eyes meet on the color wheel or if I have to make one for you to meet The love for your flaws as they become your identification for me For the sake of notes in my poem With a journal beside your hips with me I take notes on everything I learn about you From the tone of your voice, to how subtle your toes move You may be naked in front of my eyes But your soul is prevalent throughout these lines of observation

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Title: Zoe Kravitz
Posted On: 2015-01-18 17:41:10 UTC

I watched you play your guitar Plucking strings like mad girls at a bar Why call the higher power at this hour Gazing from under the Eiffel Tower When it rains and pours, I'll reveal my mutation to a bucket Your strings not only attached to a guitar, but a voodoo puppet Without my own will, drowning gracefully is the lasting feel Tell the lifeguard don't save me, no count being added to the kill Pyrotechnic credits & body chills As you play your guitar still

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Title: Where Am I Now?
Posted On: 2015-01-18 16:32:31 UTC

I'm a bad friend in a good way You only hear from me on my good days Good friends call you about problems and for help Bad friends call and tell you about recent success and how it felt I won't call you when my fiancee is acting out of character But I'd invite you to the anniversary dinner where I cherish her I won't tell you about how I feel like a bad friend But you can read this poem I wrote about it till it ends

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Title: Dark Shades With Tint
Posted On: 2015-01-18 16:19:28 UTC

She asked me, "what's love to you?" I told her about the time I wanted to love this girl who wasn't pretty & another one who had cancer I say to her eyes, "It's blind to me".

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Title: Dear Black Girl
Posted On: 2015-01-16 03:32:41 UTC

I use to think, the sun shined over you I'm beginning to know, that you shine over the sun Caliginous, angelic, & comely; beyond the skies as the skin we share Only thing going home to the universe is your motherly hair Afrocentric aesthetics through your veins With slit wrists, your culture bled over America in unclaimed fame Supporting your political & centric views Abaft as skyline hues & nostalgic blues Universality reflects your God-like skin Protecting your halo no matter the sin

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Title: Empty Rucksack
Posted On: 2015-01-09 04:58:01 UTC

Who blindfolded Cupid and gave him military ammunition Love's been blowing out of proportion, creating resistance We only wanted him to make us fall for our loved ones Hollow bottles of altruism, we never grabbed the arrows and shot at angels to make sure that he loved one An angel tearing stitches; used since his creation Love was never reciprocated towards his heart, we now deal with Cupid's deprivation

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Title: When the Universe Wrote About Me
Posted On: 2015-01-09 04:10:41 UTC

A star looked down throughout the galaxies and wrote about earthly impressions A guy who despised of long lines at the concession stands He attended games, not for the sport, but for the marching bands He gracefully touched things in patterns with the tips of his hands Night hours are imperative to his thoughtful schemes of art Somethings get finished, somethings replicate a ink tipped dart A bag of ideas shaped like animals fuels him Creating diminishes his skeletal rest, his desires ruled him A yearn for a friend, companion, and an older sibling with life in her eyes A yearn for genius sparks, canvases, and lights under his eyes You would get tired of holding your own hand at the lake Answering "table for one" at the restaurant with a Philly Cheese Steak Wanting his mother to throw another bouquet A music manager to notify him of a cancelled tour date And the star looks at itself and wonders why everyone wants to be a star Stars only glitter against a black screen Stars die before they commit suicide Stars can't really be touched because it's against the law Then the star has an epiphany, it's the original celebrity of all

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Title: Dawn is Home
Posted On: 2015-01-07 22:11:52 UTC

You Is that all you can think of I'm never here when you wake up Washing my shirts from your makeup I should be altruistic I should stop thinking about me I'm not the one that keeps crying I'm not the one that wants to stop trying Pleasure It's there, but it's subtle You may have a rebuttal But I can see that you're troubled Has he called you again Is that why your phone never rings When you see his name You lose your breath and it's hard to breathe

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Title: Legendary Damage
Posted On: 2015-01-07 01:07:16 UTC

I don't want to be the new piano in the corner with spider webs and dust all over it I want to be the old piano with torn key strings, damage from overuse, and then, may the spider webs and dust accompany me as I lay in my last spot

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Title: Surreal Mirrors
Posted On: 2015-01-05 02:31:55 UTC

If you were backed into a wall holding what you loved the most Would I be telling you you're holding me too tight Would I tell you to stop screaming my name, I'm making midnight toast Would I be the monster that comes for you at night Are we kissing with lips that say goodbye Am I running cause I heard a cry Am I taking away what you love while I look in your eyes Big girls cry, Big girls die Big girls turns into a Phoenix and retry You're not incomplete, I'm not suppose to finish writing your songs It's just beautiful when they're finish and I can come sing along I got love in my heart But I have somewhere to be You'll hear them calling my name They're people I barely see You gotta sell yourself to something

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Title: Things She Said To Me
Posted On: 2015-01-04 22:48:02 UTC

I can cleanse myself inside your liquid soul Through the vines with grapes, you love to worship girls where they fold The lights are always green downtown From another pillow, you can't recall how birds sound That's fine, I sell my soul every morning You hate to party with strangers because it's boring You wanna break the skin of the universe Deep down you love how the truth truly hurts Who asks for criticism in such a meticulous world besides you Who has an affinity to be in love with ridiculous girls besides you You're an Rubik's cube, with 54 colors I can see us eating at Houston's, while you charm my mother

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Title: 7 Parties Ago
Posted On: 2015-01-01 00:54:17 UTC

I can't party like I envision to on New Year's because I don't have a steady group of friends to stand on club couches yelling out chants we made 7 parties ago. I can go party but, it won't be fun, it'll be like the other parties where I just listen to music alone, surrounded by people. I guess I'm subconsciously asking the universe for a good steady set of friends who I can relate to and stand on club couches with while going into 2016.

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Title: Where's The Royalty?
Posted On: 2014-12-30 01:19:44 UTC

We got a problem, we can't stay in love Marriage doesn't run in the family 4th chances run in the family We don't know how to fight for what we love We get advice that's not useful We need advice that's beautiful

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Title: Break The Clocks
Posted On: 2014-12-30 00:48:37 UTC

If your light just won't glow And the choices won't choose And the preacher won't sing And the freedom won't ring Don't wait on it Don't wait on it Take your time, but don't wait on it You'll lose the clock if you wait on it Don't wait on it

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Title: Summer 2027
Posted On: 2014-12-27 04:19:52 UTC

There were white robes burning amongst the sky Molotov cocktails gave light to the city Chanting the songs of desperate unity A melody could be felt by the revitalized community Hugs synonymous to reuniting with long gone heart mates Eyes were filled with the sweat of those who secured heartache After realizing equality wouldn't keep melanin safe The minds of the architects of the pyramids found present space When they brought up segregation in 2025 We agreed to sign our nation on the line To depend on each other was a necessity overdue Equality and justice were never witnessed by the colorful hues We tried a relationship and you broke our heart and souls literally Education of self-hate to love false images To love hair that grows towards heaven and not assimilate to hair that grows towards hell We see our ex's in public and greet subtlety and wish well We asked for love and respect We fought to keep the relationship But you can't love what you don't understand And you can't love who you don't understand This is the break up letter The letter that didn't want to be written Segregate politics, banking, and the education system Only black cops will respond to black children An abusive relationship with you can no longer be tolerated Our mother knows we're beautiful Our father knows we're intelligent But our relationship here, you make the obvious irrelevant So, as Summer 2027 breezes by We still don't forgive you We will never ask for your help again ...wish it could've worked out.

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Title: Change the Chants
Posted On: 2014-12-23 19:27:57 UTC

People live by quotes that blame love for pain and rejection. It's not love that people hate, it's the absence of it. The absence of being held, loved, and cared for. People chant Fuck Love without observing what really happened. Chant "Fuck Absence". It makes more sense cause Fuck Love is like saying Fuck Positivity.

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Title: Autumn Has Fallen
Posted On: 2014-12-01 16:58:53 UTC

Placidly walking along the curbs of nature How could I walk pass such a subtle morgue I pulled a leaf from it's home The epiphany of this single leaf alone I looked around at mother natures seasonal genocide How could death be so beautiful If only falling for the daughters of this genocide could feel likewise Likewise, you glide to the grounds to be swept amongst the rest of the fallen

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Title: Still Gone in LA
Posted On: 2014-11-29 21:21:25 UTC

Ask for me, ask for me to run away from all these things They don't need me no more Without a mask, at the masquerade and this who I am Won't let me go no more And I know, you'll love me when the moon makes it home Abandon me when the sun stays too long Who are you to love me like that She said, at least you know who you were before you met me dear Sorry I wasn't clear Where do I go from here All I know is LA Everything is LA Where do I go from here Can I find me, do I start over

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Title: Gone in LA
Posted On: 2014-11-29 20:48:44 UTC

Where would I be, without all your love and passion Somewhere dead in LA, somewhere so gone in LA Somewhere tryna be, everything I know I can't be Telling me to change a little more I don't think that I could change anymore If I ever saw you in public I'd be so ashamed You'd ask me things like; I thought you loved me, I thought you loved you, I guess things do change I'll say, I needed you all for me You see it's all over, being me is all over I wanted something new, over me Now it's over, all over me

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