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SC Jul 2016
I don't understand
Hate begets hate
In the world I was reared within
It was eye for and eye
How does that stop
The hate?
Don't you know the pain
When a loved one
Is killed????
Don't you know
That pain never ceases?
The nightmares never ends
The hole in your heart
Insatiable
There is no comfort
You break down
At what others call "nothing"
Your soul becomes
a spiraling
Screaming agony
Excruciating
Massive hurt
God forbid anyone else
Experiences such violence
My god
I simply don't understand
SC Jul 2016
I'm Black
You're White
Does that mean we have to fight?
Grew up poor
so did you -
Learned to live by "making due".
Limited life options
for we two
determination we both grew...
Steely Dan
What a sound!
See! I'm not ghetto bound...
You like them too?
and Stevie Wonder?
Believing we're different -
what a blunder...
City girl-
Country boy
Doctor - lawyer - both just ploys.
Societal facades
so the world doesn't guess
each night I dream of your lips
          on my *******...
I don't care
the world's reaction
Your voice, touch, smell          
Taboo attraction....
SC Jun 2016
Eclectic as long as I recall
labeled weird by peers
nothing could wipe
the smile of all 32's ...
Scanning for tunes
memory lane
some frightening
many sweet....
from Procol Harum
to James Brown...
Flashbacks ~
A happy "pool rat"...
AM lessons that led to free swim
followed by team practice
and night swim...
Oblivious to the
burnt out shells
~vestiges of the summer of '65.
Heavy police presence
Ghetto birds
day and night...
Coalescence
willfully ignoring the horrendous
savoring the sweet....
the boy around the corner
who broke into song
each time I walked by
"My Cherie Amor..."
Dancing in the street,
the parks
where ever a boom box bellowed...
Cheap wine
blissful ignorance...
all revisited
thanks to a song.
SC Jun 2016
The careless bullet
of an unidentified coward,
shot at unknown cars
Struck the tire of a truck
driving 65 MPH
ending the life
of the man who
was my father.
30 years ago
today....
For 30 years
I've worked through
confusion,
ANGER,
pain.
Slowly -the words of my father
crept back into
my life..
admonishing
teaching
guiding.
life lessons I now applaud:
never let pride
mask the love you have
for others.
People are people-
not bad
not good
they are just trying to survive
with the cards they were dealt-
so don't judge.
Offer kindness-
not hatred...
Forcing a relationship
that doesn't fit
is equivalent to
barking up a dead dog's ***...
To have a friend
you must be a friend.
There is no shame
in asking for
help.
Don't mock the homeless,
the lost addicts
or women of the night...
Always remember
never forget -
There,
but for the grace of god
go I.
Say now what you need to say
so you never regret
not having said enough -
Thanks Daddy,
I love you!
I  will miss you
*Always
SC Jun 2016
When they were born,
  I yearned for the days
    the crying would end....
When they were young
   I loved their laughter
     but not at 2am!
As teens I had to learn
    to appreciate *******
      rap, country, heavy metal
(very glad they shared my love of old school and Billy Joel)
I spent my life longing for quiet.
    A home filled with quiet...
      What a dream!
Never realizing the price of quiet...
     They are grow and gone....
It's quiet now
........****.......
SC Jun 2016
Anyone with a heart
    has had it shattered
     with the tragedies of this past week.
Remember!
   Being hated is not
      a free pass to hate in return!
Being hated is
    a reminder how precious love truly is....
It is also
     our civic responsibility to never hate in like....
I know
   I've been Black
       and hated for my accident of birth
            for over 60 years
Don't let the hateful win
love....
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