Music for Life

I wish for you

A song for each dawn

A melody for each day

Dreams filled with song

A beat for each breath

And music for life

Connection

In those moments of pain

When the raw wounds of my heart

Gush their vivid shades of red

I hold out my hands to feel the

Warm pulsing rivers

And in doing so

I allow myself to connect

To my own bleeding precious

Truth

Truth

The brutal truth is that

I view the landscape through

Romanticized spectacles

When the reality is an ocean

Removed from romance

In any shape or form

Happy

I am dragged from a

Bottomless ocean

To cough out thick

Slime-coated grunge

And as my body is purged

From a suffocating

Ribbon of weed –

I finally –

I finally am happy

Chess


‘Neither will win’, the audience says

Now that the contest starts 

For black men move without their heads

And white without their hearts.

‘And if one shall advance’, they said,

‘So much as one short pace,

His fellowmen shall shun him then

A traitor to the race’.

‘You wooden men give up the game,

For what are all these squares 

But black and white and black again,

The pattern of your cares?’.

The chessmen quickened into life,

For love has conquered pride,

Those that were angry face to face

Are quiet side by side.

Discovery


I hid in a box 

Locked myself tightly within in 

I provided no view 

But only the darkness inside it 

 I lived in the dark, I struggled to see

I looked for myself, I couldn’t find me 

And then as I gave up 

To surrender and die 

I felt a strange object 

A smooth, solid gold

I pondered, and wondered 

What is this to me?

There is a purpose 

I know this to be 

My dreams came alive 

In the blackness of night 

Coldness of  air have no reason 

To fright 

I knew right away 

I knew what this was 

I had found it 

My treasure

I had finally found me 

I had found what I needed 

I found my own key