are you still listening?

Dear Life, where are you taking me next?

Scream directly into my ears
Transcribe beauty of perpetual existence

No happy pill or butterfly effect
Will allow the perfect life

You think you know me
But you barely know yourself

Alegria Alafia brinca fuma baila
Feel rhythm rocking you until pen breaks

Elementary elevation
From cradle to cemetery

Draw blood to get a proper physical
Examine each strand of DNA for contaminated contraband

Make sure from balding head to big toe bunion is straight
Looking backwards only means you might bump into

Where you headed forward motion lets you sing hey!
Bring in the funky drummer keeping tempo
With eventual ending

Until then we shall
Stomp feet
Palms raised in salutation

Salvation from fingerlicking greasy bottom
Absolutely easy to sell your soul
Guaranteed routines

How do we pretend until mask breaks
Cracks façade

Praises due to divine gods wonderful angels
Paint yourself saintly complete with halos and wings

Float into any altercation ready to sprinkle
Good and bad onto each shoulder

Contact will end conflict
Faith will free you

Be focused and committed to continual living
As long as you are allowed to breathe

Be inspired by opportunities to change tomorrow
Explain the pause for the cause to consider

Where we should be going instead of likely demise
What is a justifiable criminal enterprise
Profitable enough to project prophetic visions

When you walk let love speed your way
Heartbeats twostep a tiny dance

Moving fingers past margins
Observe lies between the lines
Difficult to find parts of your mind left behind

Don’t want you to be shaky
Where have you been lately

Saving up for seconds of sanity
Becoming hours of hope

Searching for stanzas to push paragraphs pa’lante
For brighter mananas

Promise love ASHE

~N get the tilde right

You are not a pawn

Solo necesito amor y paz

Peace absence of tension

No pretending underlying agenda

Ultimatum take it or leave

How happy we are

When we first deceive

Hard to believe

Years evaporate with the quickness

Here you lay

In the midst of rubble strewn

Thrown away discarded

Old memories

Hard to target

Against wooden canvas

What remains after the damage

Unseen unheard mystery

Theory conspiracy all confirmed

Programmed to be part of plan

Don’t violate own code of ethics

What is most required

Your effort opposite of evil

Love can never be lethal

Harboring darkest secret can eat you

Internal inferno

Make it rain journals

Deep discovery

Carrying heaviest luggage

Below tattered portals

Don’t get caught in vortex

Of revenge and envy

We are blessed with plenty

Sufficient you should be satisfied

Sky done cried

Yelled for your yearning

No more yawning

Brand new era of energy

Is dawning

Rejuvenating respawning

Every 7 years

Godly menu

Sampling of select craft beer

World’s oldest beverage

Water and fermented yeast

Demented instinct to keep feeding the beast

Inquire frequently

Where have you been lately

What could you possibly need

To question when passion has been lacking

Clashing of tired titans

Exchanging pleasantries of sweet nothings

Crumbling pieces of cookies

Naïve thesis of rookie

Veteran of boogie down

Polishing shine of crown

While battling colonial depression

Reading Drown and Down These Mean Streets

Where a Nickel Costs a Dime

You could be Smoking Lovely

Seeing a Beautiful Struggle

Loving your Pelo Bueno

En a City that Never Sleeps

La Bodega Sold Dreams

But reality was more often

Puerto Rican Obituary

Stay inspired by Black Statue of Liberty

Singing the 7^th Octave for SHE

No Noose is Good Noose

In this Republic of Poetry

Where we Imagine Angels of Bread

Cuba and His Teddy Bear

Better beware of Short Eyes

Give you Capital Punishment

Leaving you Kind of Blue

Searching for a Love Supreme

We ain’t Ready to Die

In this Illmatic innercity

Things Fall Apart

But One Day It Will All Make Sense

Ponte A Trabajar

Ponte a trabajar

Before your shift is over

How can you make a bad situation profitable

One day your future is possible

Resistance to change rather remarkable

One way or another

Make your product guns and butter

Weapon or condiment

Burner flavor

Bullet or packet

Spicy hot lead

Or congealed culture

Deadly to be tasty

Ready for beyond maybe

Period punto

No ellipsis probably

Between parenthesis

Empty spaces

Punctuated by particular pain

Not a game nor practice

Who asking those good questions

Enough substance to get to broken heart

Anti matter

Who’s badder

Pure evil

Or pointless positive

How many apologies

Will you fib

Keep running your jibs

Don’t get barbecued down

To spare ribs

Extra sauce wild pepper right salt

Walk directly connected to talk

solace

Lonely all by myself once again

Wondering how does this pain remain

Solace in shadows looking up at the moon

Reaper tiptoeing death might be coming soon

Once upon a time fairy tales with happilyeverafter

Now its grey hairs retirement heart beating faster

Can’t catch up turtle slow and steady versus rabbit

Ready to do a limpieza eliminate every bad habit

Original savage

Painted distorted abstract with blood splatter

Inspiration running away

Innocence hard to capture

All natural elevation comes from within

Lived a lovely life

Blessings contrasted with sin

Who’s to judge

God tells me I got you it’s all goody

But be great go beyond

No limits possible to escape earth

Spiritual dimension expand larger than universe

Shitty attitude keeps you grounded ghetto altitude

Divine essence only inestimable as much

As you value reflection

Perfection can be developed if you advance perspective

Vasio vagal nerve in back of brain

Triggers blood flow to pause as oxygen levels drop

Consciousness fades lights turned off

Open eyes wide unable to speak

Peak of itis right after bistec y queso

Heavy meal sit lump on stomach

Sat stuck no activation

Temptation to go cold turkey

Fast out all impurities

Assuredly have to focus in order to achieve

Must believe in own dreams otherwise

Fetish fantasy unactualized

Distracted while doing nada

Persuing palabras as destiny don’t let devils get best

Constantly variable liable to switch with direction

Distant breeze let my mind at ease

Visions of future security

Naked as newborn trembling wet exposed

Vulnerable if you touch I might cry

Regrets from concrete to sky

Pick a roof

Release screams to clouds

Only if they chat back