The Fly Life: January 2012

Reciprocity

I know that you can't fight bitterness with bitterness. But what else can I possibly feel other than my gut holding back the words my tongue wants to say when you wont give me the time of day but my heart knows its wrong. Because an eye for an eye will leave us both blind to the love that will always lie in between us at night whether we are in the same bed or miles apart. Since you got the last word I'm left in the dark and forced to wait until you come get me out of this place because I won't leave without you because we both got ourselves here... we have to leave the same way. I can't reciprocate the feeling that you gave me because two negatives don't make a positive they only make a greater negative which is really further away from the positive that is there but covered up by its reciprocal on the other side of zero.

Ocean

I let my mind sink into itself with the thought of you. I felt the water slide over my body and how I love to drown in your arms just as the sun comes up... but before I even got there I had to approach the shoreline.. the first meeting of you and I. My toes in the sand as I got my feet wet for the first time in something that was worth my time... I waded up to my knees in the love that you had to offer me, felt my feet fall deeper in the sand and fall deeper into love with what's just inside the outside... the shallow of your eyes, the inside of your hand.. I lifted my foot out of the sand and took another step forward.. the water reached my fingertips. I could almost feel your lips as I traced lines on your face that I can still draw into the back of my hand like a memory. As time passed lines that made your eyes lingered and and then drew our fingers intertwined as I took your hand in mine. I'm not afraid of the ocean, only afraid that I won't be everything that you are... vast, deep, and everything more. . My time came to leave the shore and dive in.. sink or swim. I took one last breath and never looked back. I don't regret that. I spend my days swimming beneath the surface... knowing you're worth it. I spend my nights safe in your embrace until the sun comes up again. I no longer long for the shore, only that every one knows what its like to drown in the best way... to lose yourself in love

Circles

Words and actions, actions and words

What came first the egg or the bird?

We’re confined to believing that change only comes from a dollar bill

For a bill of 6.75 but what is the price of freedom?

Freedom ain’t free and I may not agree with what you say

But I will defend with my life your right to say it

But before I can save you, I need to save myself from self destruction

So its up to me to break the chains but

I feel like I’m trapped by a straight jacket with my arms around my waist

Shackles on my ankles and a muzzle on my face.

I’m bound to the ground by belts fastened tight

And I have a blindfold on so I have no sight

I try to yell to scream, but my voice has been silenced

We’re all a victim of organized crime it’s called: the government

The heat waves gave way to my ribcage because

I’m starving but it might as well be my temples carving spaces

of malnourishment of the mind, body and soul

when the body hurts as a whole,

there’s a space void in the mind

and I’m being confined as my spirit is ripped limb from limb.

I’m bound by the standards of society

What they tell me is what I need to be, but

Who is they, anyway? I’m trapped by a system that has me running in circles.

My intellect is tested by standardized tests the determine my fate like a crystal ball

They are not a caricature of my character by any means

Education is the key to achieving your dreams but

Not before you pay the state government that tells us we can’t get a job

To pay for our schooling so we can’t do the school thing that supposedly is a birthright.

Can we start to get it right?

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