Aug 17th

A lot of pain in my heart that beats me down behind the scenes

A lot of tears in my eyes that my pride won’t let me see

A lot of mistakes, that turned to regrets

A lot of anger and stupid late texts

A lot of love with no more direction to give it

A lot of fear toward love and the will to get it.

A lot of time and the more it ticks the further we’ll be.

A lot on my mind, I want to stop thinking

A lot of hope looking at this phones screen wondering if you’re why it’s ringing.

A lot of memories that’ll fade away with a shot I didn’t take

A lot of questions, like do you see what I did for you now?

A lot of heeeelll naws, fuck her, and do you..

A lot has happened, there’s a lot more to life than this.

I just know that this time around our story ends

Just because neither of us knew how to really commit.

Transition

Do you know about…

Biting your teeth so hard to stop the tears?

Avoiding mirrors just to not face the pain?

Playing music loud to drown out your heartbeat?

Taking deep breaths to calm your thoughts?

Closing your eyes to sleep but see the memories you loved?

Waking up to the cold area next to you where they should be?

Your hands remembering their warmth?

Crying out for help and being left to dry your own tears?

Letting go knowing you’ll never hold on again?

Having your love misunderstood?

Begging the one you love not to leave?

Leaving.

Looking back?

Leaving.

Running back?

Leaving.

Remembering?

Leaving.

Leaving.

Leaving.

Broken

I didn’t want to leave

I was too stubborn to go to you.

Our souls bound.

I fear it’ll tear if I continue..

Running from you

Being mad at you

Hating you.

Everything but loving you.

It’ll tear.

Then I’ll finally know what broken is.

2 quintains & the truth.

In time, the feelings will tick away.

Every second, is growth.

Every minute, brings clarity

Every hour, is progress.

Everyday, is a process.

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In time I will fade away.

In time the memories will too.

In time me, my love, my heart.

Will no longer be a memory to hold onto.

••••• ••••• ••••• •••••

No longer will I..

reach for something out of my grasp.

Want something that will never last .

Need someone more than myself.

Be let down by hopes that are too high.

No longer will I..

Be an option.

No longer will I try..

No longer.

Golden hour

Before the sun goes down

Before I let go

I searched for meaning under its glow

I lost thought in its breeze

Tears dried from it’s warmth

Drowning in negative thoughts

Ocean waters rush toward me

Will I ever learn to let go

Mask still hiding my smile

Leaving my eyes to reveal the pain

Hands dug deep into the sand

Holding on to nothing but reality here

Underneath the glow of the moon

Rising slowly, the tide met me here

Waves pulling me out to sea

And before I let go

I allow its embrace

Harder than my demons

Before I begin this rant, I hope everyone is good mentally because I’ve been at a low for almost a year and refused to write anything so I wouldn’t be forced to face my thoughts. Being true to being a cancer, I ended up keeping my thoughts inside my “shell” with my heart on the frontlines taking most of the impact and that’s not something I wish on anyone.

Moments of clarity come with time, music and a little persuasion from a bottle of something heavy from time to time. So as I sit here and complain about the hamster wheel Ive been running on, in this temporary life, I can’t help but notice I’ve come across the same type of people expecting a new outcome. So here’s my attempt to stop running through life and pace myself a little better when learning to handle pain.

Why is it that I have to “handle” pain instead of just accepting it? Why is that man?

Is my energy really attracting people who are a reflection what I’m putting out when Im here thinking I’m spreading nothing but love ?

Are my intentions so clear that it makes me easy to manipulate? I hope not. That would suck. If so, then I need to stop running back to those who hurt me to help me heal. My toxic habits are becoming harder to break & that’s my downfall that I tried to deny. How do I fix this when I swear my thoughts really cloud my judgement sometimes that I no longer see who or what is good for me..

Time after time I spent hours backtracking and second guessing myself that I lost track of time. I’ve spent the past year stuck on the same question.

IS IT ME? …

I have some serious self reflection to do when it all comes down to it, as to when I’ll do that I’m more unsure than the worlds plan with Covid.

I’m trying to figure out what it means to be me. I’m having even harder time trying to get others to understand me. Again.

I have a message and I have a vision, yet my purpose has been lost so it’s been hard to move forward when I’m dragging along all my past baggage, demons and stress to the present.

Fuck man..

I’ve confided in those who never listened. Trusted those who played with my kindness. Loved hard enough to never want to do it again, so now I’m at a point where Im sure Waldo is a representation of my heart and I’m waiting for someone to spend the time to find it.

Find me.

It is what it is though, so with purpose. With love. With faith. Patience & honesty I’ll do my best to move forward. I’m not without flaws, but I’m working on my level up as best as I can, fighting all those demons I dragged with me alone, which makes it 10x harder though.

Maybe I’m tripping, too selfish, self centered & too focused on my anxiety to check myself in the times I need to the most because of those demons?

I mean my eyes are open to the demons in my head but too blind to see my own actions and naive enough to think I don’t deserve any consequences.

The audacity.. The downfall of living in my head during Covid I suppose.

I’m rambling, so I’ll just end it here but I’m back to feeling confident enough to write more. Writing is art that feel many don’t appreciate. To be real, I wish I could go back to when I used to write in a notebook with no backspace key to delete the thoughts I think people won’t understand, just forcing myself to read my feelings..

I hope Covid doesn’t have any of you down and out worried about the things out of your control. Wear your masks, stay blessed. I’ll be back, in the mean time don’t let people’s words hurt you along the way.

I am

I am..

The breeze that flows through life.

The one who fears failure during success.

The bird, limited, with potential to fly.

The moon that reflects off the city lights.

The oblivious that feels your intentions.

The lonely who needs something deeper.

The man in the shadows treading lightly.

Satisfied with nothing.

Full of mistakes, calling it “exploring life.”

Grinding for consistency.

Spending for acceptance.

Sleeping on people, dreams, & connections.

Waking up to push past the nightmares.

Sacrificing my wants to do what’s needed.

Yet I keep this mindset that;

I am killmonger.

I am King.

I am me.

(now that you just read through it, go back and add “I am” before every sentence besides the one with “yet”)

Much love.

Mixed Feelings

Arguments with myself

So many fading memories

With very present pains

You shouldn’t be here so soon.

No more emotion we said

Why aren’t you listening

Go ahead and beat away

Don’t cry when they’re gone again

Nobody told you to open up

Cant fear being let down again

Are you even ready to start over

Ready for a new truth

Ready for new lies

Ready to embrace a new view

Do you trust yourself

You know you’ll mess up

Don’t forget this time

Perfection is not love

Love comes in time

So go ahead and beat away

You have a mind of your own

Looking for a simple place

Where you’re not beating alone

Partially Functional

Warning – I have no direction with this I’m just writing whatever comes to mind.

Friend of mine told me I like to exist in the depths of solitude, which I agree but I wonder if they knew that’s a poem that Tupac has wrote? I should of asked.

But I don’t think people really know why I chill alone. I don’t bother to ask. Just say “yup” & go about my business.

With that said & I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again. I enjoy all the time to myself and prefer times of being left alone. I never need people or anyone around me to feel like I truly exist. I do this for myself. I don’t need affirmations, encouraging, or anything for that matter to push / coach me through life and the many decisions I tend to linger on.

& It makes me appreciate the people I share company with more.

I just find peace in the silence but I do hate the stigma that comes with being alone though, people are so quick to judge you in some negative way but I realize that some don’t understand it’s a choice that just comes with being comfortable.

Just look up this book (Rufus; Party of One: A Loners’ Manifesto) She put what I cannot explain into words.

On another note;

I like to think I am blessed with this gift to write but cursed as well because there are times in which I am afraid to write for fear of judgement or not being proud of the mental place I am, or I feel like I’m repeating myself aka, I have nothing to talk about. It becomes this overthought, overlooked, draining process;

..process that I still find myself addicted to.

I write more than I ever post. I’ve tried short stories, long novels and poems to get out of a comfort zone, but its easier for me to write in the moment and about the moment because I can dive deep into many emotions at any given time and have the will power to expose myself, and not worry about overdoing a character or switching direction like I just did, because it’s about me, only I know me & my life.

The words just fly off my fingertips, But the thoughts disappear faster than I can type and that’s pretty normal. And I hate it, I’ve forgotten some dope shit that I wish I had the time to write.

Now on a waaaaay more personal note,

I’ve noticed the biggest thing for me is just accepting the facts.

I don’t trust people.

Ive Lied and hurt many people.

I’ve cheated. And because of the way life works I’ve been cheated on.

Left peoples lives with no explanation, and been left just the same so I can’t really complain about it.

I’ve lost faith in God, lost my direction, place in the world and found all three.

I Haven’t been the best friend, lost plenty of friends, kept a big circle, now prefer a smaller group because who needs extra stress.

Struggled with the insecureities of my past, been great by myself, lost myself, and that’ll never change that’s just apart of life.

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To keep it real I’ve cried more times than I’d like to admit behind closed doors with the music playing trying to blast away all the silent tears.

I’ve thought and thought and thought until my brain couldn’t handle the what if’s anymore.

I questioned myself knowing all the answers to my reality. Doubted myself and gave up on myself for months deep down knowing better.

I reached an all time low, broke myself down. Then one day I just woke up one day started getting myself together and haven’t looked back. And I think it all starts with acceptance; once I accepted things for what they were and that they weren’t going to change I decided to do things mentally like keeping my mind occupied rather with a book/studies or conversation. Physically I destroy myself in the gym to the point I can’t move two to three times a day. It’s how I coped, and its how I didn’t allow myself to relapse into that dark space.

You get it by now, what I’m saying is that I’m only human, and you can see the cracks in Mr.Perfect ( yes that’s a Ne-Yo song) but the breadth and depth of my understanding of things and my self awarwness is far, sooooo far from where it was just months ago.

Damn, I’m all over the place but whatever lol

I’ll just ride these thoughts out

I find it Ironic how,

I SIT outside just to watch the moon RISE.

I debate life with my notepad and scratch out things no longer apperant to me.

Sometimes I wonder what makes it easy for people to walk out my life while I’m sprinting to make my life great.

And if they don’t know your dreams, then they can’t shoot em down.

Just rambling now, let me chill. You can call it that, I’m just clearing out my mind.

Signing off

Until the next time

Much love

Yellow Tape

I realize it’s been a while since I’ve posted any sort of update but life took many unexpected turns for the worst since I’ve been deployed overseas and the only way for me to get back on the track of sanity was avoiding social media sites as well as people as best I could.

I needed to have some focus on making it home rather than stressing about the issues at home that are 100% out of my control.

Ultimately I didn’t want to post anything when I was in such a bad space mentally because I’m sure anything I would have posted would have came off very angry and negative and that’s just not what I’m about.

That’s important though; Sanity.

Because self preservation is key in life, and life’s fast, and I just want to take it real slow.

You just don’t realize how much bull- you deal with in life until something makes you stop and say “WTF” – giving you the feeling of wanting to disconnect from everything to evaluate your well being.

With that said I encourage whoever is reading this to download the headspace app for just 10 minutes of meditation a day,or at least give it a try.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/headspace-meditation/id493145008?mt=8

Other than that, Im in a better place and plan to do better with posting and networking.

Last thing;

God works in mysterious ways, so I’ve learned to never feel alone when I’m loved, never dive too deep into my mistakes on route to be a better person, Love better, think clearer, and focus harder.

All change takes time, depends on the time you invest into that change.

Alright alright I’m done being all preachy.

Stay blessed.

(Chris Brown. Yellow tape)

True to Self

I want to

I WILL

write a book

This has been a long time goal of mine, and a serious one that doesn’t come as easy since it’s a test of commitment and patience, aka; the two things in my life that I can rarely get to fall in line these days in the first place.

One thing I can ABSOLUTELY promise is that this world is full of distractions because every time I think I know where I want start/end and figure out how to make the stuff in-between make sense.. I end up at a Starbucks, swiping through Instagram double tapping things that don’t matter.

I hate society, makes it hard not to get side tracked

I low key been trying to talk to / find god to pray for myself, but sometimes I feel like im 24 years too late with all the things I’ve done and been through I feel like if there is a god he/she/it would be like,

“what happened? What happened to you?”

I wonder if anyone else has that thought

Self-righteous but I’m dead wrong on a lot that’s for certain, but I’ll always remain true to myself.

(Bryson Tiller. True to self)