Hind Feet

It's too late
To scamper away
You're into this waist deep
Best pray for a deer's hind feet.

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Clockwork Chemistry

Take it if it's necessary
Your stubborn doubt's secondary
Take that first step for history
The rest is clockwork chemistry.

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Conscience Needs Courage

Conscience must befriend courage
Else it suffers miscarriage
You can't be true to your heart
Except rage burns like a hearth.

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Island Of Good Fortune

Coming down the unbeaten track
Like a nomad on camel  back
Hurtling forth towards the hard pan
Good fortune stands out like an island.

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Go With't

I'll just go with it
And take the universe with me
I ain't scared of shit
Because my mind is so sick.

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Storehouse

Memory is a storehouse
The bad ones are guarded by vows
The sweet ones go the rounds
Memory is a treasure house.

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Paint

Cut me some slack
You go on like a lark
Ama make it back
Just don't paint me black.

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My Cup Of Tea

Come in to tea
Your soul's the fee
Climb down your high tree
You're my cup of tea.

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Legit vowels

Don't wanna throw a wet towel
But you're six deep with a trowel
You're messing around shoal's bowels
If you can't spit legit vowels.

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Cliffs Of Nowhere

Take me up there
By the cliffs of nowhere
It's hard to breathe no air
But that's exactly why I'm here.

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Cold Inside

It's cold inside
Fires burn outside
On the streets death stalks
Where the undead walks.

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Olive

Send out your dove
From the cabin of your boat
The stand at your post
Until the olive starts to grow.

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Fine-tune your soul decision
The world awaits your sole explosion
Make statements that bring results.

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Home

Home
Is when you're all alone
Yet you're not on your own
Affection puts your fears on hold.

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Wake Up The Sunny Days

Wake up the sunny days
With the sunlight on your face
Ride the neck of the gloom
Let inner peace fell the boom.

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Buried Bones

I'll go home
And dig up the buried bones
In my backyard
Under the shades of palm.

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Night Creatures

Night creatures
Staying true to nature
All is darkness visible
Their souls warped incorrigible.

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Go Home, Honey

Go home honey
This is one mother of a story
Go hard or you'll be sorry
This is gore not fantasy.

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Naked Sun

Unclothed
Like a naked sun
Spilled blood clotting
Into crimson globs.

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Fire In Your Eyes

Would you ask why
When the sun shines so bright
And puts fire in your eyes?

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Burning Train

Never try to chase down

An empty burning train

You'll look less than a clown
Your pain will be your gain.

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Hypocrite

I'm amazed you'd ask
Hypocrite that you are
You reek of ass.

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Divine Tendencies

When we collide
Destinies coincide
Divine tendencies abide.

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Sightseer's Vista

Don't knock my style, Mister

I am no fashionista

Still I'm a sightseer's vista.

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Go, Bring Me The Moon

Go bring me the moon
I saw it splat in the lagoon
Throwing up sprays at noon.

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Dandelions

Swaying white seed heads of dandelions
Standing tall like stationary lions
Electrifying the scene like ions.

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Cardiac Arrest

Like a cardiac arrest

Compassion wrests my breast

From the jaws of unrest.

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G8 Of 8

Shut down the gate

Shut out the hate

Before it's too late.

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Threefold Words

Let my words suture
Every heart that is torn
Give lasting succour.

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Missionary

Grow me
In a well turned nursery
Send me out as missionary.

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Sculpting Reminisce

Carve reminisce
On the face of humanity
With a felt-tip pen's ink.

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Bloodless War

Pray God
Allow me not
To see or taste blood
Send a bloodless war.

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Witness

Say you're helpless
Invite me to be selfless
In your weakness
Make me your witness.

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Love Commoved By Love

A love like a dove

Gentle like soft gloves

Glides down from above

Love commoved by love.

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Sunday Morning

Like a Sunday morning
Wind whispers under the awnings
All your properties doling symphony;
A night that lays silent and still.

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Bust If I Must

If you're lost
Do not count the cost
I'll fetch you at all cost
Your fears I'll bust if I must.

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Treasured Moment

I don't think they'll understand
If I tell fool's crew my plan
I don't think I have the strength
To share that treasured moment.

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Consider Forever

It would be forever
Before I ever consider
A personality makeover
I'd sooner go under.

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The Garden Where Serpents Talk

When we fall
For a bite of apple that falls
In the garden where serpents talk
We become ants stuck in a honey pot.

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All That Glitters Is Diamond

Being the only one in the world
Who believes in your personal worth
Doesn't make you less than diamond
Trusting who you are makes you strong.

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Taking 'Im' Off Impossible

Ask me what part of impossible
A guy like me doesn't understand
I will answer it's the possible
How's it endure the 'im' on its back.

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Comforter Of Waste Places

Comforter of waste places
Surround me with your graces
Smother me with embraces
Teach me love in all its phases.

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Occupy Troy

Rejoice
You do have a choice
Occupy your Troys
With jubilant noise.

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The End Of A New Day

Is this the end
Or a new beginning
What happens to earth
On this new day dawning.

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Can Of Remake

Take me
If you can remake me
But don't slake me
Cause that will break me.

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Spare A Care

You have nothing to fear
If you don't spare a care
You will doubtless get there
If you can dare a dare.

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All That Strive

I know how it feels striving downtown
I know how it feels thriving uptown
I know how it feels being clowned
I know how it feels being crowned.

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Charged Up Electric

Stick with the original plan
Because you know you've been programmed
Turn your eye on the exotic
It will charge you up electric.

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Never Say Dance

Never say dance
If you don't stand a chance
To worm a hole through the universe
And perfect a genuine traverse.

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Table Of The Mountaintop

I'd love to wake up
On the table of the mountaintop
Rise up to meet the wealth of the earth
And burn in the heat of its hearth.

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Deep Further

It ain't no use
If all you ever do is peruse
When you can step into the water
And inspect the deep further.

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Believing In Hope

There is hope in believing
Because in believing
You find practical reason
If only to keep on breathing.

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Drive To Dive

Caught in the drive
To stay alive
Yet stuck in a beehive
The only option is to take a dive.

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Clinical Trial

Get a surgeon
To come bind your bones
And heal your legion
Of sustained blows.

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Flying Cannon Ball

Don't fall in love
With a flying cannon ball
You'll break more than your heart
You will  explode on impact.

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The Con 'N The Sequence

Don't know much about the con
But I can figure out the sequence
Figures you can't harbor the con
And not face the consequence.

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Fine As Fine Is

It's fine
Only if you hold the line
Or you pay the fine
That means you walk the line.

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Warhead Of The Sun

Bring me the dawn 
On the warhead of the sun
I'll blast the troops of darkness
And nuke the hordes of madness.

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Commissary This Misery

Commissary this misery
Cushion effects of ill
Commission a ministry
Call forth an emissary.

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Life Like A Knife

Take the gift of life
Let it cut like a knife
You're a legit sacrifice
Heal the earth of all strife.

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Rom Pom-Pom

Rom Pom-Pom Pom-Pom Pom-Pom
Valorous souljas marching forth
Rom Pom-Pom Pom-Pom Pom-Pom
Behold 'em marching as to war.

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Compassion's Bane

It's all the same game
We dealing sick blame
Pretentious campaign
Oozing with love's bane.

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Terror Makes The World Go Round

Terror makes the world go round
Bombs hold its butt to the ground
Vengeful hate keeps its springs wound
Gore gets the war dogs crowned.

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Balls Up

Would you let me fall
On a spike of recall
When my strength is spent
Balls up reminiscent.

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Unapparent

I reach into that crevice
Your unapparent enterprise
Feel the aileron on which you rise
To cherish your defining device.

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Otherworld

Come and taste the beauties
Of otherworld realities
Plug in to pure properties
That bring out your qualities.

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Food For The Mile

I'll be waiting for you
At the end of the line
I wish you good fortune
As you eat up the mile.

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Dirty Rain

Don't go down the drain
With a flood of dirty rain
Splash in like a crane
And dash off in an exultant spray.

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Maintaining Attitude

I've moved from wanting to
To a state of constant gratitude
I've been taught to do so
To maintain a thankful attitude.

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Falling For Good

Would you call me
If your world was falling
Down all around you
Maybe but you'd wish you'd been good.

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Catatonic

Wouldn't it be downright tragic
If Destiny's herald was catatonic
Cause goal achieving would be sporadic.

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Ledge Of Resolve

Take on the entire world
On a ledge of personal resolve
Watcha waiting for
The universe is yours.

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Mote Of Virtue

Everybody falls for that one thing
Virtue to which they've attached genuine worth
They'll give everything to redeem it
And trade their soul for a mote of dust.

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Brother, Get A Clue

Would I lie to you
Or treat you like a fool
Brother, get a clue
I can't stand being rude.

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Anchor Rage

If you're feeling downed

Before you cast your anchor

Take a long look around

Then book for the shore.

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Basement Raw

Get your butt down

Back to the basement

If your legit sound

Runs off at a tangent.

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Want It Bad

Is it wrong

To want it bad

To strive so strong

You never look back.

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Fall Tall

You know

You don't have to stand tall

To call yourself bold

Just back up when you fall.

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Fookaroo

What's the name you give the mess

You stuck yourself into

That adds a touch of finesse

Stephen King calls it f*uckaroo.

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Don't Knock The Game

Don't knock the game

It'll be a shame

When you dig you been played.

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Wax Universe

I'll give you the world

Through a rainbow spectrum

Gloss over the dirt with crayon

Border-rule out the gore.

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Wishing Well

Friends who wish you well

Are like a wishing well

They cost a fickle dime

Yet are impossible to find.

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Rain Of Lakes

The rain

Doesn't always

Go down the drain

Sometimes it forms lakes.

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Mindin' Grindin'

When we ride

We stay on our grind

In time we glide

Cause we focus our mind.

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Soul Of The Navel

We own the roads we travel

They're formed from the navel

We carve our own gavel

From a will of gravel.

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Down For The Hassle

On the edge of battle

Folks like scattered cattle

Stampede for strange castles

Each down for the hassles.

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Goose For Hook

Don't cook the goose

That lays the golden egg

Cause that's the hook

By which your plot is pegged.

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Adrenaline Junkie

Feels like taking a shot

Of adrenaline overdose

This inspiration infall

Closes in on thunder rolls.

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Holy Catalyst

An atom of courage

May ignite holy rage

In a cowardly heart

Catalyzing virtuous acts.

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Into The Grim

Engendered by grief

Endangered by greed

They roam into the grim

Engineered by mere grits.

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Wimple Of Offend

Don't fall off on the wrong bend

Get off the yarn of pretend

Strip off the wimple of offend

Or you'll fetch your early end.

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Switching

I'd punch your lights out

If you don't cut it out

I'm telling you, doubt

I'm switching my route.

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Furniture

I appreciate the effort

But I'd rather you performed

Don't just stand there and watch

You're becoming furniture.

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Volcanic

It's closer to hot

Like a volcanic eruption

Larva washing down the slopes

Cooking up remnants of hope.

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Particles Of Feeling

How does it feel
When the feeling sips in
Through your very follicles
Like beach sand particles.

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Straddle That Rainbow

When I straddle that rainbow
And dip into the pot of gold
I'll let my fingers feel the stones
That makes men mad since days of old.

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Dream Dragon

I'm a dragon
With dreams for a flame
Like a contagion
I spread like a wild flame.

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Downtalkin'

Don't you patronize
All it does is terrorize
You downtalk my worth
When you praise with empty words.

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Stick Of Match

Walk me up to that bridge
Where there's no looking back
Hand me a keg of gasoline
I'll step out on a stick of match.

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My Cross Is Of My Making

My cross is of my making
My choice is what I'm living
My hopes and dreams are blinging
This bond is beyond breaking.

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Daymare

I want to hang up a dream
That scares the hell out of me
On the wall just over my head
And wake up each day to a dare

I want to wake up to a dream
That knocks the daylights out of me
I want to live in a daymare
That challenges my soul to dare.

Akpan

Miasmata

Don't churn peace into drama
There's no purpose in bedlam
Turn your sights on panorama
Curb the tide of miasmata.

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Thunder Button

If you seek a sign
Don't gaze into the sky
Look within your heart
That's where the thunder starts.

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Properties

Take a little time
To renew the properties
Of your individual mind
You'll find your true integrity.

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Personal Struggles

Let me tell you something
About my personal struggles
I found that but one thing
Is needed to walk the jungles.

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Darkness Will Conspire

I've gone through the fire
Been scalded to inspire
Sincere 'bout movin' higher
But darkness will conspire.

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Free Verse

Come let me take you
To a corner of the universe
I'll make all things new
Make your life flow like free verse.

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Glory-Land

I'll catch that train
On my way to Glory-Land
I'll perfect my refrain
Pluck the sun with my bare hand.

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Meet The I

If you haven't asked why
You're yet to meet the I
You'll find purpose in life
When you touch the Divine.

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Rainbow Shades

Give me a rope
Long enough to string a bow
I'll nail that pot of gold
Straddling the shades of the rainbow.

Akpan

Seduction Of Gain

The introduction of pain
Comes with no trite ceremony
It's often the seduction of gain
Digging men into an early grave.

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Tears On Windowpane

Tears on my window pane

My eyes reflect the rain

My heartbeat lifts the strain

Pillows can't cushion the pain.

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Guitar With Loose Strings

Time's out of tune
Like a guitar with its strings loose
Dirges pour out of flutes
Like a ballad for dead Jews.

Akpan

Land Of Lies

Another sunrise
Falls on the land of lies
We string up evil ties
The young pay the price.

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Worth's A Dime

Too much
Lost in too little time
The days are such
Ain't worth a dime.

Akpan

Target Practice

When I aim
With my heart
I always
Hit the stars.

Akpan

Grains

What's the plan?
War's returning man
To grains of sand
So what's the plan?

Akpan

Seven Times

Give me time
All great things require time
I can read the times
I'll rise if I fall seven times

Akpan