Tatters

I eek out a living among the tatters of my former self,
the personality I once clothed myself in
It is shelfed carefully alongside the no longer needed alarm clock
set before dawn so I may be among the first to greet the new suns rays
And here I sit day after day
Awaiting I know not what
as I watch expectation shadow flicker off and on my darkened walls
But I know it will not be found here among the still drying toothpaste smears flecked in my clogged sink
Or dust of opportunites not taken that coat my diplomas tucked safely away from my regret-A snapshot of youthful eager days gone bye
I lay sandwhiched in transition between what once was and what will be
And all there is, is me

TV

That's all women see
Unrealistic bodies on TV
Believing you're fat
There's something wrong with that
Just another way to pay
Day after day
For products you don't need
It's called corporate greed
Newspapers focused on sadness dying and crying
Biased always lying
We just need to be free from buying vanity
It only stifles our humanity
Which way do we steer?
Sometimes it doesn't seem clear
Its called corruption without interruption
The police are allowed to kill
Those they deem 'mentally ill'
The populations being thinned
By those turning on their own kin
Driving down the freeway staring at billboards
Mixed messages only create discord
Why do we have to fight?
Can't we understand there's no one way that's right
If we open our minds
We'll find its not hard to be kind
Together we can create a world free from hate
As long as people mediate

Wisp of memory

Wisp of memory billow
As my head rises and falls on a down pillow
Remembrances mist swirl
Cloaking my dreams in streching fingers unfurled
The dreams tether
Leaves me wallowing in fields of heather

People want me to be what I'm not
But I'm is all I got
The universe and I have a transcending connection
There's always room for reflection
You gotta remember life is fleeting
Even the most nobel heart stops beating
And now winters comes, summers undone
Tans fade
We no longer remember the coolness of the shade
What was sharp become a dull blade
What was once large becomes small like the florida everglades
Memories like that
I just forget what I was gonna write so...
Just go smoke lots of weed
the end

What a does poet do?

What does a poet do but write ideas noble and true
What does a poet do but speak through beauties muse
What does a poet do but cry and not know why
What does a poet do but bare their inner soul on paper for all to read
What does a poet do with scorn but get inspired to write it away
What does a poet do filled with inner light but try and do what's write
What does a poet do but birth a new way thinking about life

Not My

Not my reality
Not my normality
I'm not into hetrosexuality
Queer since the day I was birthed
And that's the way I'll go into the earth
My parents tried to make me pray it away
But their dismay, the queers here to stay
Drag queens din't fight in vain at Stonewall
The next generations standing tall
Me I'm not forlorn
I get to touch unicorns with irradescent horns
That's my normality
That's my reality
p.s.
We're queer, we're here
DEAL.

What's really going on

This is raw, unpolished
But I gotta say this goverment enslavement should be abolished
They want us to be a ntaion addicted to alcohol
And were trees once stood they're building shopping malls
We're up against a brick wall
Me? I'm trying to find my style, my nitch
I wanna rhyme without a hitch
The light of reason needs to dawn
I need to inform people of what's really going on
I'm turning over a new leaf
No more being irresponsible and causing my mother grief
I'm hitting the books, giving education a second look
Other poets are like movie stars with fancy cars
All I got is me and my rhymes
I don't even own a dime
But it don't matter cause I got all I need
I don't need a big house with a fancy deed
Fuck material greed
As long as I can write things will be alwrite
This my only love, my obession
I'm writing my confession
As long as I have verse all obstacles can be transversed
My situation can only get better after its gotten worse