Poetry's Power

Poetry helps you go and see
as someone else instead
like trading someone's eyeballs and putting them in your own head
I could just tell you something, but you might not get it
as a poem, an inserted minds image shifts perspective
ever wonder how Ghengis khan ruled a continent before telecommunications?
with a vast army of illiterate men, conquering all kinds of nations? 
through word of mouth, but how could a message be remembered? 
and not change from one to another, from August to December?
how could he be in Korea and give orders to Afghanistan? 
surely something would get jumbled, passed from man to man
he sent messages through poetry, look it up
because a poem can get in your mind with a hook and tug
it escorts you on a journey and displays ideas the way it planned to 
if poetry can conquer almost all of Asia, imagine what else it can do

#AvengeFloyd

He'll never be back
Father of two that rolled with DJ Screw
H-town to Minnesota for a new start
keeping kids out of gangs with a true heart

he was big Floyd in the third ward
we send his words into the world
the kind of man we need
the kindness we could see
a soul that planted seeds
silenced by a knee

another unarmed black man killed by a white cop
Those protesting for haircuts couldn't quite stop
these white cops from killing black kin,
the constitution wasn't there for him
it sat in a vault and didn't do shit
rich politicians that talk about freedom?
This spot, the campaign trail didn't lead them
the pro life protesters must have been busy
caring more about a zygote
than a lynching of black folks

You can't oppress
and not expect
to be met
a cause with effect

newton's third law
will ensure raw
it's gonna fall
to avenge them all

Avenge Emmett Till & Rodney King
Philando Castile & Joseph Mann
Eric Garner &    Alton Sterling
Breonna Taylor & Sandra Bland
Ahmad Arbury & Rekia Boyd
Freddie Gray, Meagan Hockaday, 
Avenge George Floyd

The Present's Present

Allow my present

Allow my present self to present

Allow my present self to present this present

It's the present

Bodies of atoms of cells

Bodies on planets

Organelles of the cell

Particles in the atom

Systems of the body

Systems of the planets

Orbits of the planets and the atom

Part of a galactic shell

This amazement can't be contained

This engagement happening in the brain

When I'm sad and need some reversal of mentality

I think unclad of the universe and become happy

One second of being present

and the mind would explode

trying to handle the load

way too much to comprehend

yet here we are, perplexed

the complexity is relenting

disorienting, it shouldn't exist

but it does, persisting in flux

in between bosons and galaxies

a big bang and entropy casualties

non sensical light and dark energies

biochemical fights rage in our bodies

electricity goes back and forth in our heads

thoughts zap along through neurons

until we are gone, dead and forgotten

eventually.

But until then, every femtosecond

every atom with us is sacred

every chance to understand more

every stance against what we abhor

must be seized and not wasted,

we have it within us to all be the greatest

the most compassionate and curious “we” we can be

the best culmanation of humanity we can see

to enhance how we can our gifted time segment

in the present

Up for a spin?

Dust galaxies Planets & Stars

Mercury, Venus Earth & Mars

Asteroids, Dwarf Planets, Comets and Moons

Jupiter, Saturn Uranus Neptunes

Kuiper Belt into the Oort Cloud

Sirius, Polaris

Rigel, Rigel Kentaris,

Atria, Seganus,

Vega, Regulus,

Altair, Canopus,

Achernar, Arcturus

Capella, Anteres

Volcanos, Geysers, Attmospheres, Rings

Herds of trojan asteroid things,

Nebulae, Novas, Blackhole Jets

What we havent discovered yet,

and what we haven't figured out

Zubenelgenubi, Acrux

Zubeneshamali, Gacrux

Menkent, Kraz

Minkar, Acrab,

Saiph Nunki Hadar

Procyon, Nekkar,

Unukalhai, Cor Caroli

Rasel-Hague, Enif, Rasal-Gethi

Dust galaxies Planets & Stars

Mercury, Venus Earth & Mars

Asteroids, Dwarf Planets, Comets and Moons

Jupiter, Saturn Uranus Neptunes

Kuiper Belt into the Oort Cloud

Danebola, Al Geiba

Mintaka, Mirzam, Hassaleh, Ruchbah

Menkalinan, Alderamin

Alde-Baren, Sarin, El Tanin

Mirzam, Wezen, Al Maaz

Megrez, Mizar, Alpheratz

Alnilam Alnitak,

Aludra, Adhara, Phakt, Mirfak

Volcanos, Geysers, Attmospheres, Rings

Herds of trojan asteroid things,

Nebulae, Novas, Blackhole Jets

What we havent discovered yet,

And what we haven't figured out

Gut Manufacture

Heightened memory machine

Sensory of every scene

Vivid sound and scent

Moments archived for later

The way that time was meant

To be felt, intensely

Locate or create meaning relived

Past reflected into now

Appreciate time's fleeting gift

Massive redwood from a sprout

Moments change and become us

We are the sum of events

That we succumb to, that shape us

Time is a jagged spiral

Not a line

We climb troughs and peaks in a cycle

It stops in our mind, repeats and stays present

It becomes who we are

Personality is memory

That we can't forget

A reality alone that is ours

How we feel and make sense

The documentary that we direct

The experience we etch in steel

What percolates into our essence

And long after memories fade,

And neurons with age wash away

Just the important moments remain

In our gut, as feelings we can't explain

As the best parts of the final amount

Let's make them count

Second Count

Don't let em flip
The calendar days
Make every first count
Make every second count
Make every second second count

This will wisp pass
Moment gone
Last
Second like it

No way to know
It'll come
Next
Go to past

Learn it's ways now
Come again
Check
Hear it fly?

See it come from
Far to close
Most
Make it with it

Not guaranteed
Nothing is
Leap
Make it deep

Not under six
Feet of clay
Still
Is a good day

Flip the Eyes

Let the back light shine
Up in your mind
Flip the eyes
See the Brain
See thoughts pulsate
Bias Extinguish
Glide cognition

Bar the discard of specifics to for generalities
Familiarity can deceive, it seems better
We believe if it's repeated, or if we already think it
We think our shit ain't stinkin
Defend what gets the cheddar
Flaws in others are easy to see
We're blind to our own
We notice what's closest when light isn't shown

Sparks in brains keep you alive
If refrained from believing lies
Skull's electrified fat
Can project anything adapted to the world
Flip back the eyes, Truth taps on perception's door
Open to that, bias ignored