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™