Perspective

Trees in the forest
But I am just a seed
Lying on the ground
Buried by leaves
...

Thoughts of my past linger longer than expected.
I remember what I have been through to be here !...

In my northern New Jersey
town of 27,000,
the down town center is
a triangle of three...

We all look for reason to connect
but find that we separate
The melody of a single song...

A stolen nation
Independent of others
Made up of others
Yet, still my home

I...

(circa the early 1970's)

Dad went trout fishing with a buddy.

Buddy says,...

Oh, ye, of nail and precious woods so fine,
have stood through time to bind all others close....

We see the moon in the daylight sky, obscured by wispy strands of cloud.

Somewhere on earth the...

things are hard,

The bigman in a big hurry
Flings his agbada and these words
His...

I wanted what I never had and had what I didn't want
I had so many aspirations, my life they all did...

Ode to life; your uncertainty.
It's absolute, your variance.
A continual charade of wild...

Dealing with hair...

what a frustrating affair

taking such great care

wanting to...

Lie here waiting, agitating,

Awake, since the crack of dawn;

Sun is rising, I’m despising...

Missing you is like 1000 red ants eating my heart while I am alive

sadness fills my day with...

Devotion,

That's a powerful emotion,

It can dictate every notion,

Every action,...