i'm just nothing
but a message

a message
in a bottle

to hear me speak
you must seek the contents inside

for inherent in me
are words written on stone

that shall never wash away
no matter the storm.

said i'm just nothing
but a message

a message
contained in a vessel

what you see
is just my body

for what you seek
lays deep inside of me

#Peace. 02/07/17 by erL

Ether into Matter (Immortalised)

Pen abuse

And page abuse

Their abuse

Is my use

To get it out

(My word)

Out to the world

For all to see.

Pen abuse

And this page abuse

Their abuse

At the wrath of my hand

Is how I use

My sword and shield

More metaphorical

In a metaphysical sense,

But this pen abuse

And this page abuse

Their abuse

My use

From the wrath my hand

As it bleeds these thoughts out

From my brain

Straight into matter,

So this pen abuse

And this page abuse

To you

Might not matter

But to me

It’s not why they should matter

But rather that

They have immortalised ether, into a form of matter

#Peace. 19/06/17 by erL

Oh Afrika (my motherland)

Oh Afrika

My mother land

For you I’d die

Gladly bleed until my last drop

If that’s what you need

For you to heal yourself

Stab myself in the heart

Shoot myself in the head

For my mother to live

And continue feeding her children,

Oh Afrika

My pride and joy

From the plains of the Serengeti

To the banks of the river Nile

Gladly I would fight

Until my last breath

For you have birthed men

And nurtured him till he became a tyrant

Stealing from your land

Enriching their own pockets with their greed

But today I fight for you

With nothing but sticks and stones

I will fight for you

Until my death becomes the symbol of your struggles,

Oh Afrika

My motherland

My pride and joy

And the birther of men

How long will they fight for you

When you never took from them

What they steal from you

That they never owned,

Oh Afrika

My mother land

#Peace. 15/06/17 by erL

Want to feel

Feel me
Feel you
Fill the world
With nothing but
Pride and lust, glutuney and greed

Feel you
Feel me
Fill the world
With nothing but
Love and joy, care and happiness

Feeling you
Feeling me
if we could all fill the world
with nothing but, how we feel
now you tell me, which one would you want to feel?

#Peace. 01/06/17 by erL

Life

Time

You either have too much of it

Or running out of it

Breath

You’re either running out of it

Or catching too much of it

Life

You’re either afraid to live it

Or living it to the fullest

Life

You either got it by the horns

Or letting it slip right out of your hands

Life

You’re either on top of it

Or down on your luck out of it

Because living

Everyone is allowed to do

But rarely do some go out and live

#Peace 23/05/17

Life by erL

Parents of Men

Why is Nature our Mother?

And Time our Father

Are we their children?

Or could our planet be?

For Mother Nature

Feeds on her children

The more

She feeds them,

And could Father time

Know more than he says

Or let’s up

For His spawns to see.

Why is Nature

Our Mother

And Time

Our Father

Where they rightfully ill named

Or could that be so

Could there be

More than we know

For who gave them their titles

Who blessed their union?

And watched over their children

As they birthed them all,

I guess what I am trying to say

Is who is responsible for all of this?

Who could they be?

And who gave them this power

To rightfully such titles

On such descening entities

Who rightfully bore their all?

 For the children they now had.

Who named Nature our Mother?

And Time our Father

For there is yet I am still to ask them

Like what did they see

When they chose these entities

To be the parents of men

#Peace. 11/05/17 by erL

What it means, to be human

Dear black son

The world awaits your next move

Will it be a call to unite?

Or will you continue subjecting yourselves

To these horrible ill vibes

That got you now trapped in a matrix

That you never created

In the first place.

Dear black son

What will it take you?

To make you realize

That the world awaits you

At your very hand and call

To know what comes next

In our journey back home

For they followed your words fully

And await on the time

That you shall now be one

For they shall all listen

To what you have to say

As your word

Carries the essence they need

To know what it means to unite

And to live as one.

Dear black son

My journey continued not through me

My world awaits your call

For you are the ones that taught them, what it means to be human

#Peace. 15/05/15

What it means (to be human) by erL

My real Strength (to truly know)

And as the dust settled

I looked up to the sky

With no tears in my eyes no more

I could finally see my true form again

The light that came from inside of me

The image that I was once again to become

The more I became myself

My true self.

As it settled again

Just like it had once risen

My true form emerging

From the storm I had once become

I could finally see the light

Like the sun beaming from behind the clouds

I was finally free

Free to call myself one

One with myself

One with my soul

One with the all

That unites us all,

So as I stood the

Watching the dust settle

In front of my eyes

The beauty that now arose

Captivating my eyes

And mesmerizing my soul

I was finally able to let go

Where I had once held on for so long

With all my might

And strength I could master

No longer had I a reason

To act bold

When weak I was to become

In order, to truly know my real strength

#Peace. 04/05/17 by erL

Who are you?

Who are you?

To tell me who I am

When you are not the one

Walking this journey for me

So who are you?

To dictate my life

When no one

Dictates the terms for yours

The mistakes you made

And the lessons

That grew you

To the person that you are today

So who are you?

To tell me who I am

To condemn me

For my own mistakes

When they are the lessons

That are, turning me

Into the man I am

And the success I have become

So who are you?

To judge me

When it is my life to live

That you want to dictate

How I should live it

When no one dictates to you on yours

#Peace. 03/05/17 by erL

The choice for me

I am better
No matter how hard i try

I can cry
Weeping till my tears fill the ocean

But i will always be better
As long as i decided to be,

I can fall
I can stumble

Tumbling
Till i do a full barrel

But i will still be better
Then when i began

For after the fall
Comes the choice to rejoice

As i will once again
Surely pick myself up again.

So i am better
Not because it is a choice

But rather because
I made it in the first place

And if i didn't
who would i expect, to make the choice for me?

#Peace. 02/05/17 by erL

Set Myself free

It’s the ones not said

That weigh the heaviest

Words

They cast spells upon men

That’s why it’s called spelling

It’s because of the spell

They leave us in

The more we cast them out

Unto the world

The power they possess.

Men have bit their tongues

Whilst others have choked on them

And so today

I cast my own

Letting their thoughts

Set sail unto the face of the earth

Never can I get them back now

Nor can I uncast their spell

A new spell without

That’s why, I cast them anew

With the hope that

Their new conviction

Will be the eviction of the old

And set the very latest in stone

For forever, I was destined to fight

If the fight was to free myself

But what freedom was I to achieve

When my own words

Where the ones

Casting spells over my present self?

It’s the ones not expressed

That weigh the heaviest

Their emotions

The true depths of me

The true depths

Of my heart

And so today

I free myself from them

As I cast new spells above myself

With an open heart

For that is the only way

I can ultimately set myself free

#Peace. 02/05/17 by erL

Letting me go

from the shadow of the sun
to the dark-side of the moon

i'd sing my whole world for you
and swim to the bottom of the Abyss for you
just to have you in my arms again.

i said, from the shadow of the sun
to the darkest crater on the moon

i would rip my heart out for you
just to get one more chance
to feel you in my arms again.

i've cried for you
until there were no more tears to shed

i cried for you
Till my eyes ran dry
For i had nothing more left,

just a scent
and a memory of your lips

oh how i wish
i could get another chance
in order to kiss them again,

i would gladly lay you in my arms
and never let you go

because from standing in the shadow of the sun
and hiding my emotions like the dark-side of the moon
i have nothing more to say to you

that i wished i could have said to you
back when i had the chance

and so today
i weep no more
knowing that letting me go, shattered you too

#Peace. 19/04/17

All one

And we rode
On the backs of dragons

Until the rising
Of the morning sun

And the memories of them
Withered away, with the rising sun

Never to be seen again
Until we are all one

#Peace. 15/03/17 by erL

To be right here

Cool, calm and collect

I have taken time to recollect

To look at my own life

In a new kind of way

And it has paved a path

Of enlightenment and delight

For no fear knocks at my door

Memories haunt me no more

For I have seen my wrongs

And made peace with my demons

In order for me, to be right here.

#Peace. 02/06/16 by erL™

Wear that smile

With beauty as radiant as the morning sun
And a smile captivating like an evening sunset

Your eye flatters
Flatten my soul

I am putty in your hands
When loving you bring me

Overjoyed am I
For the living that you bring

Captivated a King
And turned him into a beggar

Begging for your love
For lost he felt without it

And so today I extend this hand
In apology of my wild ways

For I acted like a mad man
Only because I was mad

Madly in love I was
Driven crazy by you

For you
Are the one I dreamt of

And so I take of my crown for you
In the hopes that you may see

The sincerity of my words
For you looked not to my actions.

It is with great love
That I write these words

Not in the hopes of wining you back
But to apologize for ever hurting you

Never was it my intention
Never did I intend to make you cry

When all I wanted to do
Was be the reason that on wear that smile

#Peace. 20/01/17 by erL™

Whole again

This pain that I am feeling

Is why I am not around

Its because I am healing

All the sorrow

And the heartbreaks,

All the resentments

And regrets.

Curled up into a little ball

Nestled into my own cocoon

I await my metamorphosis

With bated breath

For I know

That once all my wounds are healed

I shall be whole again

#Peace. 03/06/16 by erL™

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™