~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

I love my grandmother, Melba Burgos!

Abuelita abuelita no llore mas

Abuelita abuelita en su vida praying for paz

How did you feel before getting on that avion

English weak but your faith strong as back bearing jibaro burden

Decade after decade world turning always towards sunny manana

Hustle your way through factorias

Sowing lace luxury undergarments by day

By night open and shut down the Copa

Una mujer en la ciudad

Bailando until breakadawn

Ritmo mas profundo makes you sing along

Release all that pena each song

Large family in small apartments

Dreams squeezed into roach motel railroad

Prewar buildings born for arson insurance

Drama kept you moving

Hard to preach Que Pasa Power

When children are starving

Cornflakes with water

Ketchup sandwich bacalaito for breakfast

Yucca for dinner

May the Lord be with you always

We feeble fellow sinners

Don’t pass judgement on next brother

Who knows when emptiness will be fulfilled

Grandma’s hands crotchet Lares flag

Collecting dust in back of closet

Let tumbleweeds push past parched desert

Constant conversation with Dios

From your blessed mouth to beloved ears

On your side no boogieman to fear

Except monsters you been created

Image of Beetlejuice don’t say name 3 times

Appear instantly behind bad memories

Distraction is contagious

Top of head to bottom of toes

Become your holy gospel before eyes close

Shielding you from hood frights

City skyline in broken distance

Bedroom looking at Rikers Riverside

Harlem State building to Empire

Hardwired to hold on to hope

Kiss your bony knuckles to knock out negativity

Followed by heavenly trinity

Sunrise to midnight

Echandolo Pa’lante never polite

Your smile is a kite

Flying from highest cascada en el Yunque

Able to see Guzman Abajo

And look up at confianza constellations

Forever watching

Reclamar

Back amongst origins exploring again

Discovered old journals

Handwriting hasn’t improved

Barely legible hardly forgettable

So many nights still trying to understand

What’s already been said

This is not to make friends

Along red cracked ground

How does the view sound

80 year old trees

Whistle with hood bochinche

Who got locked dropped copped

Chopped stopped

Where did imagination go?

Nobody plays on the block unless

You got kicked out with nowhere else to be

Except dribble on a dry patch

Couldn’t catch the cloud

If they throw bombs onions in your wax gear

Wish I could be tough enough to survive a shot

Body and brain begin soul transition to otherside

Where you look back from old photos

Only revisited when they remember

Death anniversary and birthday

All the inbetweens hopefully had some

Laughter tears scars

Drifting out in the stars distant universe

Like your multi purpose

Electronic supersonic hood

Just like CPG except you live for infinity

Time beyond distance

If we was all perfect

There would be no wrinkles grey hairs

Missing teeth lumps where ain’t supposed to be

Eating preservatives

Run around the park

Get a couple laps to keep up that youth

Spoiled sitting on manmade carcass

Cold case still throbbing mobbing with sadness

No time for relaxing

Keep pushing no simple spaces lovely curves

More ugly words proverbs and psalms

Controlled remotely by robot making you digital

Supreme mind of knowledge criminal

Bless you until vegetable

Are you letting you?

Go how you screaming

Bless you salud dinero amor

HAGALO POR FAVOR

Divine only helps

Those who help themselves

you already wearing your costume

What type of terror

Exist in murky blood puddles

Fangs dripping off flesh of fools

Talking live zombies at thriller video shoot

Past midnight when freaks been out getting faded

Sunshine cause vampires to hibernate

Put on a scream mask and sit in shadows waiting for next victim

Predictable outcome brother dies early

White girl is saved

Couple shouldn’t have snuggled

Surprising villain

Light snuff film

Sadistic psychotic within your optic

Locked in fantasies of massacre for times

Invisible bullies attacking you

Mosquito drones are tracking you

Metadata conquers metaphysical

Mediocre typical brainwashed leeches

Frogs jumping up down block

Spiders crawling snakes slither

Ravens cry never more

All a part of savage ghetto picture

Black white moody greys

Hissing radiators

Creeking doors

Who is out to get me

Demons and devils waiting whenever you ain’t ready

Eyeballs creep roll to slow focus

Teeth chatter from misty frio

Cono compai que lio

Trapped

Without mystery machine or Scooby doo

Proverbial creep standing middle of deserted road

Lonely barrio with nowhere to go

Wasteland destroyed

Infrastructure damaged population

Controlled by government concentration

One channel clear media manipulation

No escaping matrix unless you conquered fear

Used as fuel for survival

Hope is vital

Faith is necessary

Love is revolutionary

When confronting scary cold planet

Time to be action hero

With horror movie script you been handed

Improvise inspiration memorize motivation

Tomorrow depends on saints and angels collaboration

Got God’s army prepared to bang out with Satan

Convinced 85ers he doesn’t exist

Easy to ignore evil

Peace and positivity belongs to the people

Righteousness will always triumph over wrong

Whenever you shook

You must resolve your foundation to be strong

my pillow

Possessive

Don’t let your son run away

Hold him tight against chest

Until he tells you

It’s time to walk

Learning to talk

Comes first with a set of demands

Divine can lift you vertical

Keep marching towards horizon

Enterprising your energy

Vida is endless entropy

Letting dust settle

Before rising to next level

Volume surrounds whispers echo

Streetlights give

Glamorous shine to glorious ghetto

Scream at the sky

While walking over a bridge

Learn from subconscious

Give you instructions how to live

Gratitude determines your aptitude

Can’t complain if you slacking to lean

Can hardly dream if you only accept reality

Worth can’t be equated with salary

Cut the calories

Trim fat from diet

Please try it don’t fight it

Protector when patrolling playgrounds

Possible peligros

Stuck in same exact spot

Only thing changing is scenery

Same rock and tree keep passing on loop

Hasty pursuits

Faith can make you faster

All those accomplishments might gas you

Agree with your affirmations

Cultivate creative

Don’t let propaganda alter your native

Hold love in your hands

Don’t let anyone ever take it