The pulse of the night
The crazy, jiving,
Makes life worth living
Tempo beats through your eyes
Climbs out your ears
Makes you wanna care
Ties you up and out
Holds you down and in
Cant stop moving
The beat wont stop calling
Its all about falling
Free falling through the night
No gravity, nothing pushing down
Free to dance and be
Like all the religions say
Here’s my paradise
On the dance floor
Where its just me
No one to shut the door
Freedom, plain and pure
Freedom through the music.
Lets go on a gender bender you and I
We shall show our wings, start to fly
The Veil
My wonder at the way the music moves
Your hips through the emptiness
Spreads the world out like a magazine
Open to any eyes that can see
But only yours can pierce
That veil of silence and silk
Between the world and the music
The lined hand of the servant
Spills the cup of life
Throws out the dirty tissue
Soiled with the detritus
Of five thousand years
Of human tears
Shed for the blood
Shed for the hate
Shed for the fear
Shed far and near
Those tears fill the world
Hidden beneath the surface
The old pain seeks to rise
To meet the new pain
Created with each new day
Held back by that thin membrane
Of all that is good in the world
Kindness, Charity, Peace and Wonder
Love stands strong against the pain
Hope keeps us able to love again
He wants the world to all makes sense
She wants it all to be safe, controlled
He wants the pain to end
They want conformity, peace, safety
I want strife, life, originality
The end to this era of sin
I want us all to stand up, and make a choice
Just choose, good or evil
Stand for something, stand up strong
Make the world yours again
Like it was when you were small
When everything was black and white
Make a choice, light a light
Push back the darkness
Find these great heights
Of anything, everything, something
That makes you happy, sad, strong, proud or weak
End the ambiguity, the apathy
This world is just waiting for you
To step from your safe little hole
And take hold of life
Freedom is a scary thing
Chains bind us all, blind us all
We think we are safe, we think we are in control
We think that we are right, that we are strong
We need to throw off our shackles
Heavy chains of reason, logic and conformity
Make our own choices, not those of someone else
You have no obligations, no ties binding you anywhere
Life is what you make of it
Its all a choice
So why not choose freedom, your own true freedom
Freedom is a scary thing
Now we need to find
That we are truly blind
We hold onto all we ever knew
Not thinking, we never grew
While we held onto these weights
The world was moving to new heights
Passed by the open window
We were to scared to flow
On our own we could escape
We waited for a hero in a cape
Its time to take a step
Time to make a leap
No need for faith
We can see the path
It stretches ahead
Freedom can go to your head
Where Is my heart
Is it buried under the part
Of the world where children play
Under the rainforest where
Businessmen spend their day
Or is it in the hand
Of some unknown knower
Who starts a band
To spread the power of some flower
I think not, I think that my heart
Is where ever it wants to start.
Shots blur through the dark night
Blue suede darkness, ripped by death’s flight
Time slows as the reaper arrives
That Grim ending, claiming yet more lives
We have the power to create
Why do we always have to destroy
Five minutes of hate
Can ruin a lifetime of joy
Where is life, where is love?
Is it in the feel of a knife, the flight of a dove?
Does life mean death, is pain an absolute
Draw the gun from its sheath, take aim and shoot
I see a girl standing in the hall
She looks my way, her glance makes me fall
My knees are weak, my words stall
I have no words to say, you are all
My world shrinks to a ball
Just you and me, standing in the hall
Twisted passages through your mind
I feel your torment, I scream in kind
Your pain is like sweet poison
Kills me, gives me the strength to carry on
I need to reach the center
To find the reason, so I enter
In the heart of your fractured brain
All I see is a little white crane
Eric Clapton sings of love and heartbreak
I feel like exploding, I need to make
A reason for this escape
Into my mind and my life
I look for answers, I flee the strife
Of this world, where sadness is rife
humanity is in distress
And it seems life is just a mess
I need a release from this stress.
The water winds through a barren land
Once a forest, it was felled by man’s hand
In this place, not so long in the past
Animals hunted, died to break another’s fast
The trees grew, and dappled sunlight fell upon the ground
Night fell, and it’s velvet cloak was unbroken all ‘round
Then came man with his view of reality
And everything changed, so we could be
Now the trees are gone, the ground is bare
No longer will the wind ruffle the bobcat’s hair
A land of beauty, of natural perfection and splendor
Razed to make one thousand of the same door.
That will adorn one thousand identical homes
In suburbia, paradise for those who wont read my poems
Heaven for conformity, for pain
For everything being the same.
A heaven for those called sane.
Strong silken strands
Soft in my hands
Creamy skin so white
Let me see it tonight
Lips of rich red-gold
Make me feel so bold
Your beauty seduces my every sense
Makes me feel dense
Enchanting me so well
For you, I would march through hell
Your words make me quiver
Your touch makes me shiver
Oh why oh why, cant you be mine
Oh why oh why, isn’t everything fine.
Darkness appeals to me
It sets me free
Within the anonymity of night
I can do anything, without fright
When the deep night does come
My mind begins to hum
With questions and answers
Thoughts and cancers
I wonder, and talk about reality
Out flows my creativity
Now it is night
Soft darkness enfolds the light
Blackness dispelled only by the moon
It can turn a man into a loon
The inky dark creeps along my windowsill
I look out, and let the darkness do as it will
It cradles me like a child
Makes all life seem mild
When the sun is gone
All my problems are as one
They rise up to consume me
But I fight to live happily
The world rushes in at me
So much to see, to know to do, to be
A little speck rushes past a mite
Its you and me, passing in the night
Step back from life, and see it all
Then dive back in, begin to fall
You will never hit the wall
There you stand, legs firm in the sand
Grains rub against your feet
Knees bent, ready to leap
So strong so proud
Never to humble, never to fall
Suddenly, the ledge gives way
The air whips past your eyes
As the rock begins to crumble
The light recedes to the skies
You fall, past the edge
Past redemption, past a chance
To hang on till the end
As you fall towards the spray
A flower, on a ledge
White and perfect as a snowflake
It seems to beckon
But you whip past it, fast as thought
The sea parts in the face of you
Your passage mars it for but a moment
As the ripples die away
You sink down through the sea
The bottom beckons, life is far away
Nothing holds you to this world
Save the remnant of the sky
Left in your lungs
But in a mind devoid of hope
A single petal takes shape
The flower on the ledge is eternal
Brings you back to the surface
As your face breaks the waves again
You feel raindrops on your head
The pitter-patter makes impressions
On the white flower, floating
Near your hand.
Time to write a little? Or a lot? Lets see what I’ve got!
Time to break the silence
I think so much, but I never say
A hundredth part of what I think every day
This is not the time to write, like that
It’s a time to rhyme so phat
Start me out talking bout how shits going
Like bullshit with da cops and stress every night
Sometimes I feel like every day is wrong
But I get up and go, and try to make it right
I slide through the days in a permanent haze
Not to plagarize but mos def just puts it so good
I can’t even fucking paraphrase
His words just describe my mood
Right, sliding along through the moments
Letting it all pass me by, doing nothing
I need to fucking take on my opponents
Roll up my sleeves and do something
Like talib says, just ‘do somethin’ I say how?
Whats right to do, whats right to say
Just, how the fuck am I supposed to know
Ain’t nothing in my life stays same day to day
Its all here and there, and its all change
I want to just scream and make it all stop
Stand still for a minute and address the range
Let people know I got some knowledge to drop
Tell them to do, be, think, care, share, and live right
Stop criticizing, stand up and make a damn stand
People are the power, lets flex our might
But who the fuck am I to say this shit so grand
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