Been hearing in the news about the US police officers queuing up to resign from their jobs. Well, the nicer part of me would love to give the benefit of doubt and believe it’s pure coincidence, but my untamed side just won’t let me! I should be more charitable...
For over 400 years, blacks have been chronically and systematically hated, demonized, terrorised, traumatised, abused, deprived and denigrated. It is a wonder that despite this they have not risen to form their own version of the Ku Klux Clan. Professor Cornel West – Professor Emeritus (Princeton University) As hideous...
Is it me Or does it seem like police officers in America Continually thirst for the blood of black men To kill them with indiscriminate disregard?
There’s something about the musicThat makes my heart flutterWith the memory of one moment in timeOf many once upon many timesThere’s something about the beatThat just gets me on my feetI’m on the dance floorIt feels like it’s just me and the beatDancing into times pastAnd into the futureWhere...
In the trench pit of despair, I dredged up hopeQuagmired in turmoil, I found clarityIn pain, I found solaceIn nothingness I found something, SomeoneIn my crouching nakedness, I found coverIn the lie, I stumbled on truthIn hollowness, I found my depthIn the fickleness of it all, I found meaningIn...
From my youth, I observed my grey strands. I moaned for a while And I vainly began to ponder Why would the signs of aging Descend upon one with such youthfulness as I? For surely youth and aging
Now that the world is shutting downMy own world feels unhinged‘Your’ world has constringed the world within meLike I never dreamt it would or couldI’ve lived distractedBy what ‘your’ world pervaded my world withAlways had something to doSome place to go; something to worry overI called myself busySome called...
Where does inspiration come from?It comes from within and from without It comes from here, it comes from thereIt comes from today and the dreams of tomorrowMy inspiration comes from pain and from joy Suffering and my redemption From the highs and the lows; mountain peaks and valleys so...
I have habits, both good and bad But hate living as a creature of any habitNot for me the routine, the mundane and the predictableI might have a 9-5 but it sure doesn’t have me! My heart already given to the non-habitual and the non-commonI look for the uncommon in commonSo...
It is one thing to have noble convictions and principles and another thing to face up to the daily challenge of having to live by them. I don’t know about you but I’m often surprised at how often I fail myself and my ‘fiercely’ guarded principles and convictions when...