Begin with

You've magic in your heart
And it spill down to your hands
Every time that you write

You scribble down my soul
Etching with it my dreams
With the hopes that I may heal.

You've got magic in your heart
And it spills down to your hands
Every time that you scribble

You capture my pain
Painting my sorrow
The more that you are.

Please write some more
That magic in your heart
And let my soul free

Free, from the bondage of the past
Free, from the heart aches in my soul
Free, as I could ever dream of

For you hold the power within your hands
To not just free a caged bird
But to teach it, how to fly again.

You've got magic in your heart
And hold its power within your hands
Meticulasly writing my present moment

The more your ink spills
It spills in my name
Carving a path to my future.

Please write some more
The memoirs of a dreamer
Who never had the chance to awaken

Until you held the pen
And wrote me a song
That finally woke me up

From the slumber that I was taking
Without ever realising that
I was asleep to begin with

#Peace. 26/02/17 by erL™

Loose them (to someone else)

And just like that
It dawned on me

That not everyone
Will have your best interest at heart

No matter how many roses you send
Or boxes of chocolates you buy

No matter the cost
Of the diamond rings

The clothes you may buy
Or the car you may acquire

But just like that
You can loose them, to someone else

#Peace. 09/02/17 by erL™

Come fly away with me

Come fly away with me
To distant lands

Come journey with me
To a place
Where loving never ends

Let's ignite our passion
And let our sparks run wild

As we dance the night away
Until the morning sun
Then let's dance some more

For we are in paradise
A utopia of love

That place
That we all dreamed of
But never had the courage to visit.

Take my hand
Fly away with me

On the backs of eagle's
Or the wings of a sparrow

 It what ever you do
Never let go of me
For, you might never make it back with me

#Peace. 18/02/17 by erL™

Consider yourself Free

When the outside
Is colder then the inside

Then you shall know peace
You're shall know love

As you feel its warmth
Causing through your body

You shall know light
As you walk through the darkness

For it shall be
Lighting the path all around you.

When the outside
Is colder then the inside

You shall know love
For what you feel is more

Your road shall be tough
But the rewards plentiful

As you shall finally know
What it means, to consider yourself free

#Peace. 21/12/16 by erL™

All in due time

Hey
Yeah
I mean you there
Holding the pen

I see you
I see what you do
Where you go
And what you wish to accomplish

And I have this to say
We made it man
Regardless of what you think
Just think back to a year ago

Do you see it now
How far you have come
What accomplishments you have made
Just think about it for a minute

You have just one chance to change
And until thus far
You are trailing my man
But making headway in your own right

You are marvelous
Stupendous even
Exquisite
Undescribable if I do say

And you are almost there Les
You are so close
Just hang in there a little longer
Whatever you do don't lose hope

Don't think about the time you've lost
Think about the time you have
By utilising it properly
You will affect the world

You might not heal a lot of wounds
But you can damn sure put a bandage on
By affecting those you can
You will affect lives

Just as long as you hold on
Stay headstrong
Be unrelenting in your praose
Because it is your birthright

No great story needs to be foretold
Before we carve our destiny
Thought the choices we make

So dear young Les
Present me
Today's being
One day you shall get it

You shall understand
Why I chose this day
To speak with you
From the great beyond

So much you yearn for
But so much you are yet go accomplish
Even greater then you are dreaming of
Or are allowing yourself to dream of

Be bold
Be courageous
Be wise
But what ever you do

Never forget to be free
To be open
To be loving
And caring

Never allow your thoughts
To belittle your ambitions
What the naysayers say
Is a reflection of their own disbelief
In themselves

Well I have faith in you
I have faith in myself
I am more then I am right now
I am all that at this moment

And with that having been said
I will leave you
With a word of wisdom
But never something to be taken likely

For whenever you find yourself in doubt
Whenever you find yourself in disbelief
Whenever the road gets tough
Just sit down in your own silence

For you are all that you need
You always have been
You always will be
And the more you believe in yourself

The more you open the doors
That will ultimately see you
Not only achieving your dreams
But also becoming the beacon of hope
The world dreams of

So just relax
Breath easy
All will be well
In due time

#Peace. 01/06/15 by erL™

The Sudanese Sundance Kid

The Sudanese Sundance kid
Standing next to
That native American raindance child

I see them all
Child of the shaman
My gift is in their hands

From Nubian God's
Past Sumerian Kings
Down to the Kemetic Pharos

This world is people
It's people united
Though nations divided

Conquered we are
For our enemies have us united
In arms against each other.

The Sudanese Sundance kid
With skin as rich as dark chocolate
And lips as juicy as my cows udder

That native American raindance child
Born from inside a torn teppe
But still, it kept the wind out

Winds of change
That came to take my pride away
Winds of change

As my forefathers danced the night away
Can they see me standing here
Marveling at their dances, from with their fire

I stretch my hand to touch
Their amber bodies flickering
And illuminating the darkness of night

With wolves howling
At the call of the moon
Signaling the birth of new saviours

The raindance child
Shall dance our sorrow away
And bring much delight to the land

Lions growling and roaring
Trumpeting the birth of a child
Who shall make the sun dance

They shall unite
Fire and water
And make us one.

The Sudanese Sundance child
The native American raindance child
The Kalahari Sandstomping child

The Amazon treeclimbing child
The great Outbacks rider
Or the arctic snowdance child

It matters not to me
Where you are born
For what matters most is

You were born
To do a certain job
That no one can do without you

#Peace. 17/02/17 by erL ™

Never erase

I said I love you
You said you love me back
Who knew that love ends

Sitting here broken hearted
Thinking of the memory of you
And the sweet taste of your lips

I rock myself to sleep
For the memory of you
Is an image I can never erase

#Peace. 09/02/17 by erL™

The sky is red (painted by you)

The sky is red
And I am blue

Look deep into my eyes
And see the color of you

The color of love lost
But no freedom found.

The sky is red
And I am blue

Like the color of the ocean
Today it represents you

For when I look up
I see not blue.

I see but velvety hues
Like blood gushing from a wound

But where has the blue gone
Well my dear, it was stolen by you

I wear it today
All because of you.

The sky is red
Painted by you

By your affections
The day you said it could not be you

And you cannot deny it yes
But that color, was painted by you

#Peace. 09/02/17 by erL™

Master Myself

A man apart
A man at heart
Divided by self
For that is the ego

A man apart
A man
Wishing to be one
To be whole

In a dualistic world
Where polarities
Rule the day
That man live upon

But I am going to be whole again
To be one with myself
For the more I master the thought
The more, I master myself

#Peace. 30/01/17 by erL™

Benefit

Why do we hurt the ones we love the most
And love the ones who hurt us the most

Its one of life's conundrums
To go about kicking ourselves in the head

But why do we hurt those we love
And love those who hurt us the most

How are we ever going to progress
With such a backward mindset

Inflicting pain on our loved ones
While bending over backwards for demons

Heartless soulless beings
Who do no do good for us.

I ask myself at times
Why I live this way

I take the time to be
So that I can separate

Those who love me
For who I be

From the serpents
That are only there for their benefit

#Peace. 02/01/17by erL™

Guide each other home

Destined for greatness
This path that I walk
I always knew that
It will take me there

To my days of peace
My days of harmony
And tranquility in my soul
For Today I feel free

Free enough to let go
Of the fear of tomorrow
Or the pain of yesterday
As I live my life today.

Destined for greatness
These scars that I carry
Are no more reminders of triumph
Then they could ever be of failure

For I fought with myself
Not just so that I could be here
But so that I could be here
With a pep in step,

For life might have kicked me down
But I chose to get up
The more it tried to defeat me
It gave me the courage to rise up again.

Destined for greatness
And this time
I am not afraid
For I see the future

Glaring in front of my eyes
Success I will make it there
To the days of peace
And harmony in my soul

For I chose to keep walking
The tougher the road became
The lonelier I became
But still I held on

For the loving that was inside
Could never allow me to give in
To ever loose hope
When I knew, I will make it there.

Truly I was destined for greatness
That in my lowest days
I was still above many
Though I felt below some

And now today
I look down on no one
I look up to no one
For everyone that I need

Walks besides me
In this journey of life
For we all now know
That we are helping
Guide each other home

#Peace. 15/11/16 by erL™

(As black as) The Soles of my shoes

Bury me a G
In a black pair of Jay's

To that I am a black man
Who lived his whole life in jail

With no place to go
Except for the concrete slab

Where I lost my brothers
Will they ever come too

Mommy look at my brothers
I wonder of they will ever come too

Bury me a G
In a fresh pair of Jay's

Clean as the life that I dreamed of
Cleaner then my dirty ol' pair of chucks

Clean as my soul
Pure and bright as light

It's shine
Outglowing even the sun

For for on that day
I will finally be free

Bury me a G
In a fresh pair of Jay's

Make them black
Like the color of my skin

Though
It's not the color of my soul

Bury me not a man
With a white pair of shoes

For the only thing that was white about me
Might be the paper my eulogy is written on

For the ups and downs of my life
Taught me to trust the darkness

To love its solitude
For it gave me the chance

To finally be free
To be me

So bury me a G
In a black pair of Jay's

A black Afrikan suit
With my hair nappy as ever

And my tombstone should read
"Here lays a man

Whose heart
Was as black, as the soles of his shoes"

#Peace. 28/01/17 by erL™

Still Dry

Raindrops on my shirt
Dirt on my shoes

Though I feel nothing but warmth on me
I feel, nothing but freedom

Walking through the raindrops
Finally alive

Like nature intended it to be
At one with my surroundings.

Raindrops on my shirt
Dirt in my shoes

But inside this meat suit I am driving
I am, still dry

#Peace. 25/01/17 by erL™

A way back home

Blinded by rage
Fueled by anger
How will I
Ever progress
When I am
Still at war
With myself
My thoughts
Denying me the opportunity
To be at one with myself
And so this fight
I wage it on
More and more
Until it can't take it anymore
And do something about it
But how
Will I ever know
That I am at the tipping scale
And probably
No longer have
A way back home

#Peace. 12/12/16 by erL™

That very knowledge (you give)

My mentors were assassinated
And my teachers labelled terrorists

What does that make me
What then does it mean

To have men hurtle ideologies on us
While we never set any for them

Tell me when in the modern generation
Has the words of a black man, affected a white

There's no heroism in the act
For those of color still do not see

How they are being led astray
The more they don't listen to thine brother

I taught you that the world is being shaped wrong
And you told me it's because I don't want to fit in

But when a white man screams kill the Muslim
You stand beside him even without a reason

I sat and asked myself
Who truly is my enemy

I discovered that, there is no external enemy
As long as I don't have any within

And so I re-looked at Gaza, Palestine
And found children dying without a reason

I looked towards Aleppo, Syria
And still I saw children dying without a reason

While under the carpet
Man are making profits of the ammunition sold

But what can I do
When I can't even save myself,

Maybe if I did
The world might seem different to me

And maybe I will feel
Courageous enough to fight

And maybe if I fail
I might inspire someone to continue the fight

But as long as there is something worth teaching
There will always be

Someone in need
Of that very knowledge you give.

#Peace. 20/12/16

by erL™