~ Love Speaks ~

I come bare,
offering the purest element of love,
this elemental entity,
that was birthed from above,
I am intimacy
IN · TO · ME · I See,
So that my actions
I may reflect
to this world
and love others
like I love me
I am that essential nutrient,
needed by everybody,
we were meant to do more,
so more we can be,
if only we loved like we hate,
then we would truly know,
unity,
we are a mistake prone creation,
it’s genetically encoded,
in our humanity,
but we can do better,
as one, being one,
the mighty hand of love …

Oracle

Stresses of the unknown
Blood pressure on the rise
Noise between my ears
Interupted thoughts

Detached, decapitated
Depressed
A search to find my head
In the midst of unrest

Feet busy to the chamber
Readying a poisonous scheme
Hoping daily
Fearing thoughts of tomorrow

Thou shalt not kill?
Deafened ears on Sunday mornings
For the will of the people
My legalized lynching

By Nicholas Acklin

Now I guess they got me thiiis tiiime/
without a daught/
Gotta fight it from the insiiide/
worth my way out/
Ain’t no time for no fuckery/
playing, giggling or chuckling/
I’m focused on being focused/
if been focused don’t fuck wit me/
I’m kicking at my thoughts/
-N-me & my feelings tussling/
Aggravated emotions wane leave/
but they stuck at me/
I ain’t gone mention anger – cause anger ain’t got a clue/
Mother fucker got some nerve trying to tell me what to do/
Now my eyes playing tricks – if look like I’m counting money & chillin out at my honey – but really looking at bricks/
Daam!!! Ain’t this some shit!!!/
Never would’ve imagined my dreams turned into tragedy – whole family mad at me/
Daam!!! I need to quit!!!/
Man this shit is sick!!!/
Happiness to calamity – everything is vanity/
Daam!!! Ain’t da a…bitch bitch bitch/

by Solo

~ If I Could ~

I wish I could
Reach out and change a life
I wish I could
take back all the things I did in life
I wish I could
end the ways of bead, so there’d only be good
Only if I could
only if I could
that would be so nice
(If I could)

The Realist

~ Another ~

Another time to talk,
Another time to teach,
Another day to walk,
Another day to preach.
Another way to write,
Another way to seek.
Another time has come,
So together, we must defeat.

The Realist

Clouded

Wrecklessly I ponder
This cycle, My being
The desire to know
Holding on, clinging
To sanity, a peace of mind

As I age with concrete and steel
Old bones crack
The heart growing heavy
With a once rational mind
Leavening a desire
A balance of will and fate

Spirit and soul
Both speaking freedom
An existence beyond
While politics plot
A narrowing road
Hope a guide
Down this road to clarity

by: Nicholas Acklin

- Doll Steel -

Don’t tell me nothing -
Don’t tell me shit -
I’m a grown ass man -
Into the wind I spit -
It’s me against the world -
Upon worlds I sit -
I plunder, I pillage -
Uncaring about the “feelings” spillage -
Bend to my will -
And put a wedge under the door -
To lock in all your feel -
Your thoughts, not, real -
I’m da grown ass man -
Only my thoughts are unsealed -
Believe the god in the mirror -
I kneel -
Praying to that grown ass man -
My grown ass worst enemy! -

Oracle

Tell me, what’s it like to wake
and not know that, someone wants to kill you!?
What’s it like to sleep at night, and
not have 10 people talk you out of your sleep?
To sleep on a bed that’s not steel (there
is a mat, but it’s like an egg crate)?!
What is it like to eat something, and
know what it is!?
These things I use to know, but the
more time I spend here the less I remember
and the more I long for it.
I think, These are some of the things
that makes the death penalty cruel!!
China, Iran, Iraq or Saudi Arabia has
nothing on the United States, when
it comes to being cruel to their own people.
But, the true question is, is the death penalty
needed?

Jessie MDY Phillips

OPPOSE DEATH

To make sense of the senseless in senseless
Why not defend the defenseless
A man or a woman with no voice
Man’s decision to kill not God’s choice
Brain waves fried
For so long we have tried
Finding someone to speak on our behalf
Some find it funny, but we’re not trying to make you laugh
Our words speak truth
A truth people in power wants to hide from you
They are not killing for justice
Blood thirst is an act of vengeance
Like a vampire soaking the life away thru a vein of blood burst
My words are filled with pain
Tear stained cheeks like sidewalks from a hot rain
Reaching for your heart
Hoping you will play your part
Stand up with us and fight
Make this wrong right
It’s time, shine light on that is in mode stealth
Stand up and OPPOSE DEATH

Marcus Williams

sweat’n in a box
twenty three hours ev’ry day
wait’n on word from the courts
hope’n and pray’n i get some play
haven’t heard from my lawyer
sweat’n in a box
twenty three hours ev’ry day
watch’n and wait’n for the mail
pay’n and cuss’n i don’t fail
all of these years,
been treated like some mangy cur
sweat’n in a box
twenty three hours ev’ry day
pen-friends come and go
friends in agony die very slow
family, friends, and memories fade
sweat’n in a box
twenty three hours ev’ry day

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