ELI

This pose' to be your moment... only scared to own it. Blood, sweat, time to shine. I don't plan on stopping until I get mine. Take a look, witness my gift. My pain, my story, no hell, all glory. Take a look, This supposed to be my moment. Its ironic. 
 How the image of a life line could be so iconic 
 . Take a thought about it for a second every lesson got a blessing that follows it. Bottled up emotions, So what I'm sipping? Keeps my mind coasting; A double shot of that E&J, even though I said I wouldn't drink no more. Not that simple . Botched plan, failed attempts. Pray that I stop being so lustful. But these foreign girls that be modeling, All come around. And at my thoughts, I'm disgusted. But, it's the norm to see a "badd thing" walking by and you holler, if you don't it's a bad thing. Take a look, Witness my plight, my fright, my height, my flight. It's that simple. N...

I know my time here is short, But I tend to get off track. Even now, I feel myself drifting. Lord, I just want it all back. Between the graveyard shifts, And these half-naked, pretty women; So many Sundays I’ve missed, My weeks are short one day. The mind can be sick, The eyes way sicker; You’ll never see Satan coming, He’s sly & way slicker. He’ll arrive, and leave swifter, Than tornadoes on a plain; Lord you SHOULD be disgusted, I brought you so much pain. My life is but a vapor; In the wind, and when I sin; My days get shorter. Lord, I want your love again. My life is not perfect, As some seem to think; Though I act like it’s all together, I live in the coldest climate. They see me in warmer weather. Listening is a lost art for me. I never give my time to people. I jump right in when I’m being scolded, And act like im right, when I know im wrong. “Then who’s to blame, Eli?” I asked myself often. W...

Ambitious Girl: Consider this my reiteration. I wanna read your books, and not just your looks. Knowing what you look like; I wanna be in your space - but not so much that I interfere with your education. Let me say this, Congratulations on being the very best you could ever be. Putting priorities over everything, Miss couldn't get that coach because tuition was due. & Sallie was nagging for a payback. Sallie was nagging for a payback. And you paid that, plus tax. Miss made so many friends stepping with the sisters. Whatever it is, I hope you pledge an existence that'll make your existence, persistent. Forever my queen, say you're listening... Look, I'm still talking. You love school but you're sick of Sally maybes. No sex, you're the lucky one because all your friends have babies. And you ain't slept, up thinking, tomorrow's that big test. Few of your friends stripping you don't judge em'...

She was strange, & beautiful. And those were human qualities, Never before seen in the same body. She became terrifying to me, Not because I feared who she was. But for the sake of love, I feared what she would do to me. Could do to me. They would probably say: "let her do it" But there's more to it. More to love than just -  y'know . A soul beats its loudest when in love with another heart. Beating in tandem, at random my thoughts act like lightening and flash. I do not need mirrors. I need an O2 tank. I can't breathe when I'm thinking about you, and I don't wanna see myself like this. -ep

I am not a journalist, Neither a poet, nor a rapper , I'm just a writer of my feelings , And how it comes out after, Comes out, On paper I just be spilling, My heart and if I'm willing, Write as long as I can deal with. Bunch of sentences running on, Never running on, Learned to face my giants , Learned to be strong. You gotta adapt , Though the world be wrong, They locked my brother in a cell, Know he ain't ever coming home . Learned to accept , That "free my brother" macho crap ain't working, Wasting money on t-shirts . When the gas prices high , it's like they on reefer. Back in school we learned a lot , But there was nothing they could teach us, About growing up, About the world and her frigidness. Druggies robbing for a fix, Priests raping little kids. Lord please protect my family , from the craziness they blaze us with. I told you I'm no poet though. Neither a rapper or a journal...

This is what you do to me: Keep the thoughts coming like waves, I get paid, but even if i was broke, I could live off of just knowing you. Your image; God Given. Im Cristal sippin’; Having dreams; Seeing visions, Comparing you to an image; Of angels. Caught in the game and it’s one I can’t postpone. Because it’s you that I really want, im just in hopes that you will know. Come to your senses. They say it’s senseless; I keep writing about you, But they don’t know. When you’re really in love, Just got to let her go. And if her love matches your love, Then you’ll forever know. And grow together, saying promise after promise. I try to hide it, But I just can’t conceal it. Kerosene heart pumps your name through my veins, To my brain, on my mind, is where you stay – all day. Showing no emotion. But as sensitive as ever, When your name is spoken, I go insane. & this has got to be my longest crush ever, And if w...