Realness
It’s all about
Keeping it real
No matter
How you feel
Keeping it real
The way the ants
Move up an ant hill
It’s all about
Keeping it real
When there are no clouds
You can see
It’s all about
Keeping it real
Because it’s always
Raining somewhere
Although our heart’s
Been broken before
It’s all about
Keeping our hearts
As open as the sky
It’s all about
Keeping it real
The way some plants grow
Through the concrete and steel
It’s all about
Keeping it real
Though engulfed
In the body
It’s all about
Keeping the soul free
Free to soar
Anywhere it need be
It’s all about
Keeping it real
No matter how
Distant you feel
For realness eats raw meat
And does not waver
Nor drift on the currents
He has the staying power
Of the sun
Realness walks only
In his own shoes
—Spoon Jackson
Little Boats
all the little boats
on dry ground be
who’s the captain of the ship
That will set me free
i will give them treasures
far as the eye can see
upon the bloody waters
the lil boats be
the night is dark, its Hard to see
all the waves crashing
on lil’ o me
but just look up in the Night sky
and there I’ll be
who can Navigate the waters
That will set me free
—Kevin Barros
THE DEPTH OF MY SORROW
Every morning I awake with a cry
Not wanting to rise an let the day go by
Smile in my sleep as I dream of the past
An frown as I wake knowing it wasn’t to last
In a rage yelling curses up at God
An worst of all labeling Him a fraud
Biggest wounds in life are self inflicted
My biggest scars from a knife I wielded
It was I that dropped the stone and saw the ripples
Not knowing the lives I would cripple
I alone must live with all this shame
A family’s broken and I’m to blame
I can’t express my depth of regret
Or the pain I feel at every sunset
Knowing tomorrow I’ll wake just like today
It will start with a cry and end the same way
—David Bertrams
