MIC Mike:

I pledge allegiance to the flag uuuuuuuuvvvvvvvvvvv Michael Jackson/ Lights/ camera/action/stop actin’/ you know at least one point life you wanted to put on the tightest pants you could find/ pop yo knees together/ and say chamone chamone/ or maybe/ that was just me/ but at least/ at least/ one point in yo history/ maybe you wanted to named a Jackson/ or a Walker/ on the moon/ dancin’/ dancin’/dancin’/ Billie Jean style/ cuz you know that child don’t belong to you/ but the interesting thing is what was you doin wit Dirty Dianna in the first place/ cuz it don’t matter if you black or white/ when life through monkey wrenches your way/ in the form of voluptuous shapes/ you better learn to do more than just beat it/ cuz do you remember the time/ when I told you that I wanna rock with you all night/ because you give me butterflies inside/ but you see Michael Jackson has died/ and my flag is scorchin’ the sky/ and it’s cold outside/I’ve got the month of May/ knowin I’m born in July/ so look you lady liberty and Liberian Girl/ you are movin’ way too fast like a speed demon/ and as I’m lookin at the man in the mirror/ I’m thinking maybe you should just leave me alone/ cuz the way you make me feel/ it’s like another part of me/ is saying that maybe we are just good friends/ you know ever since we got together I can’t even see my Jackoson flag flappin in the wind/ it’s like I am aimlessly saluting to the sky/ kneeling to earth/ cuz the one of the greatest artists has just physically left the earth/ and his songs which are the seams in the fabric of his life are seemingly falling from my head/ songs like just can’t help it/ It’s the falling in love/ don’t stop til you get enough/ get on floor/ off the wall/ but even if they Jacked the Son from outer space Michael’s was still never fall/ So I think me and you need to just chill on you being my dreamgirl/ or girlfriend/ in order for me to get back the ABCs so simple as 123/baby you and me/cuz anyday I feel like I am going to scream/ or would you rather me end up like Michael in the Pepsi commercial getting my S-Curl burned off with burns in the 3^rd degree/ cuz it’s quite the absurdity/ that such a powerfully confident man could have so many uncertainties or insecurities/ cuz what does this say about me/well simply/ whatever it be/ Michael Jackson will always be the king I see in me/ He will always be one of the most amazing/ one of the greatest/ one of the bravest/ faces/ to ever grace God’s stages/and even if I can’t physically see his flag anymore/ in my heart it’s still wavin’/ in my soul it’s still blazin/ and I will follow the spirit of his music until the dayz end/so if I could get all those part of this musical equation/ to take a moment of silence and simultaneously a moment of celebration/ by joining together to than Michael Jackson for being a God/ A king/ Amen….

LIBERATION

I once heard a King say I want my people to be free/ and now I claim the same identity/ for my peoples’ ability/ because I want my people to be free/ NO!/ not free like our self-worth is zero/ NO!/not free like our lives are in vain/ but free like there are already generations of lives that reside inside our veins/NO!/ not free like I won’t complain/ but free like I am cutting off all personal attachments to struggle strife and pain/ as it pertains/ to releasing the chains/ but the real questions are that how are we going to be free when we still claim/ our slave master’s name/ how are we ever going to be free when we still play the slave masters game/ so much so until people are having children just to see how much more welfare they can gain/ And this disdain for life just doesn’t make things the same/ It doesn’t make the appreciation for life the same/ doesn’t make our emancipation proclamation the same/ when really it’s never been the same/ since it first began/ or begun/ what if our tongues could parallel guns/ then maybe we wouldn’t be so afraid to do more than just speak/ maybe shoot or kill/ then heal/ and rebuild/ for our freedom/ maybe then freedom wouldn’t just be something we hope and believe in/ maybe it would be something that we’re seeing/ something that we’re being/ something that we’re agreeing/ by any necessary el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz Autumn ballroom you and you still keep breathing/ I want my people to be free/ I want my people to be free/ I want my people to be free/ like liberation is never leaving/ like liberation/ like liberation/ like liberation/ is-all-I'm-ever-needing...

My DIVINE . . .

. . . My divine

I never wrote a poem for you . . .

My divine

Never told you how much I owe you . . .

My divine

After all that I go through I’d be lyin’
Down on beds of nails stickin’ in my skin
Ain’t tough as scales I wish I could weigh
How much I luv you and still hate myself
After all this time . . .

My divine

Universal woman wombing man kind
Inside all my life lines . . .

My divine

You truly are my mother creator since
Beginning of birth I’ve wanted to circle
Heavenly plane around middle of Earth
just to equate her . . .

My divine

So much of my humanness blind not
To see and feel how your sunshine
Travels light years across my sky line . . .

My divine

I’ll never forget you, I’ll never regret you, you
will forever be my step through, Foolish pride,
disrespect, and disbelief directing from pebble
stone to star bright shining throughout my life . . .

I miss you . . . My divine

I wished you . . . My divine

I live you . . My divine

I cry you . . . My divine

I love you so, so much

. . . My divine

-Freedom Is Priceless- “Blessed are those who are willing to die for their freedom and live for their freedom simultaneously”

On the inside/ I imagined myself standing outside/ hands and face facing sky high/ envisioning me crossing my heart and dotting Haiti’s eyes/ number one for the pride/ and the thousands of lives/ that fought for the gift which has no price and died/ then out the confines of my mind subsides/ questions/ that thrive/ and arise/ because I have heard so many times/ “that no one’s free when others are oppressed”/ and if this is so/ then I have to ask if anyone is truly alive when others inadvertently face death/ answerless/ I experience the blues like excessive holds of breath/ and I regret to continue to ask that why must I forget/ how our worlds have to be shook up shifting in tectonic plates before we unify/ why/ when you know it ain’t the first time/ you have seen our chalk outlines/ don’t be so shy/ remember hurricane Andrew/ remember hurricane Katrina/ remember 9-ll/ remember breaking of the levies/ these extreme circumstances of unintended disastrous events should not be the only moments we become allies/ in fact I dare you to gain your independence like Haiti/ greet and love your neighbor as if your life depended on it/ instead of calculating pre-planned goodbyes/ we are not clock makers/ we don’t have all the time in the world/ freedom is the definition of living and existing/ and is such a value that should never be taken for granted/ because as soon as feet touch the granite/ we become launched proverbs in our native planets/ growing is knowing that interdependence is what keeps us from being stranded/ because sometimes death comes sooner than you plan it/ consequently there is no one without the other/ we are here in this together/ and the creator has blessed Haiti forever/ for standin’ for everything/ and falling for nothing/ yes travesty looks like no dream/ but looks can be so deceiving/ especially when evolution says that souls are in a constant state of being/ lungs are in a constant state of breathing/ the earth is in a constant state of feeding/ giving and receiving/ bleeding/ for the best parts of our history to keep on repeating/ and so Haiti I feel you so intensely on the inside/ that I open my unimagined eyelids to see that outside/ in demise is resurrection/ greater reflection/ more reasons to strive for empowerment/ atonement/ and perfection in repetition/ I see with your acute vision/ every moment to be free be with your will power in memory/ I change the senses of my structure valuing all elements of self wealth intimately/ because there is no better way to walk this path/ when freedom is the tendency……………