Exhausting my potentiality I throw it all at the screen Then wake up in the morning Is this just a dream Coz we’re born then we die With a few years in between What is the difference Between pauper and queen When in the final reckoning all is one As sure as the earth revolves around the sun The Love keeps us all burning bright But there are things I wonder when I lie awake at night As in how could it cease just to create Tell me in time that I don’t need to wait As the sky comes down to earth In the moment it heals my hurt And shows me a summer no winter can harm And any pain just rings the alarm To let me know to investigate That something approaching the notion of hate Has taken root in my being I rub my eyes so I know that I’m really seeing What’s in front of me I learned less is more, that’s my degree
I’m burning up like the flow of the river As all of life calls me to forgive her Coz I can’t split in two just to spite my face Or deny the regard of constant disgrace And I was only a teen But I saw through the cracks in the dream Untoward a vast expanse Where music makes the people dance And I feel as though I’m on fire Like I’ve been lit by something higher But it always seems to come back to ground Like I’m rooted in the sound Of you saying goodbye Then realizing what it means to die As I sweated it out in the class Then fell victim to what could not last And I stirred on the floor as I heard her call It was like I’d lost the wall Separating me from creation A moment stunned and then elation You can call it enlightenment or waking up Or just realizing all is love Then I see you with your eyes downcast And I try to forget the past But the memory of the crush is ever fresh And I’m still not there yet At the part they say release But I may just be at peace
The Poetry Book 