Familiarity…or the lack there-of

Does familiarity breed contempt?
Does ME knowing YOU more tire me…exhaust you?
Does it all make me…love you a lil less…make your love for me falter…by just that much?
Does it eat away at my heart…distort the rhythm that beats in tandem with your heart?
I have to ask…one question…one thought…I wonder!
Is it at all possible to be familiar [...]

The Lovely Predicament of Life

To live is to love, for what else is life worth?
What is life to a dazzling butterfly that has just emerged from its chrysalis and has but one gay hour to live and love?
What is life to the colorful songbird as it sits on a meticulously chosen branch composing verse after verse to woe that [...]

Unsatisfied

One may deduce that the bringing into reality of one’s goals and aims promotes satisfaction.
This deduction proves fraud.
For I have clambered up the ladder of academic achievement step by step until the very summit of it.
By this, my mother and others I have induced pride in me.
I have endeavored hard to overcome, topple, or come [...]

Trials and Tribulations

Life is full of trying trials and tribulations I say,
Trials and tribulations that task a still budding young man’s endurance to the full,
That force potentially valuable souls to attempt suicide as a gateway to a better life,
That allow dark forces to shadow, and eventually smother any last wisp of hopeful light,
That render all but the [...]

Save me from me!

The anger, pain, hurt…
The fear… the sharp, biting fear that envelops all…
Startling, brutal…final in its relentless drive to grip and grab all…to own my whole being!
I feel it, but cannot fight it…the ultimate torture!
Slowly it starts…at the edges, the farthest frontiers of my being.
It creeps up, a tiger on the prowl…silent. A killer …a confident [...]

Identity

Words don’t console me! I hate them. Despise them!
A need to be free…run, jump, dive…ride hard…anything but this!
No! Get away fro me, save me the sympathies!
I don’t need you, you, OR you! Leave me! Let me be…
I am hurt, wounded…I want to lash out, hurt back, wound back, strike at anyone and everyone!
I need to [...]

My Mission

I have been named after Adam, the first human being.
I have been named after Maliq, the almighty who rules above all.
The theory…I have all the pride the names hold.
The reality…. I have the pride, but not the accomplishments that go with.
The result…. I have a mission.
My mission is to be number one at all I [...]

Me

My body is my last resort.
I am my body.
My body is I.
It is my fortified fortress,
The setting for my last defensive battle against the odds,
The staging area for my continuous elusion of inevitable death.
But do I man my fortress well enough I ask?
It is my very own battle fleet,
The cruiser that chops through the stormy [...]

My Anthem

Like a rose rising to full blossom from the harsh conditions of rocky soils, I will defy all odds and make real the Lord’s desire,
With my coming, there will be an end to the crisis of hunger the world is shaken by.
With my coming, there will be a freezing of all wars, which mercilessly tear [...]

Me

I sit down…thinking…asking myself the same questions over and over again.
What do I desire?
Where am I headed?
Where am I at?
What am I doing?
Most importantly, who am I?
I sit down…thinking…and I realize…I realize I know the answers.
I desire the strength to bring positive change around me.
I am headed towards the ever so distant path to greatness.
I [...]