July 2009


Its been way too long for all you in the blogging world. I have been taking it easy all week here in Kansas City. Zack’s baby was born a few days ago right as I was landing in KC. I am so privileged and blessed to be apart of his life. I am officially Uncle J! And I have also heard news of two of my good friends from the hood are gonna be having kids soon as well. This only means one thing: traveling the world.

Here’s the comeback episode. Hope you enjoy!

Departure

 

If I’ve learned anything since

Your departure its that I want

To be a learner, an instructor,

A generator of the treatments

Done to Henry James,

It’s that I want to be a

Better man, I want to vow

To bow low all of my days,

That through fog and haze I

Would lay a hold of all that

Is good, wouldn’t it be far

From me that I back far

From me that I back

Down from these temptations

So common to weak men,

Like a mouse in a maze I

Feel the push to bond each

Corner and gasp and pant

For someone to listen to me

 

Every word doesn’t have to be

The greatest constructed poet,

Every dream doesn’t have to

Come true, but its where you

Stand, where you feel when

You look at you, when in

The mirror there are no lies

About how you were made