Silence.
Can sometimes be just what your looking for-
Or most times it can be the TV screens, multimedia scenes, ignorance themed, mean man oppressing machines;
that have caused many to be silenced.
I have been silenced
through playful violence
and hurtful playtimes.
My written rhymes heal the scars
as my voice
breaks down society’s illusional cell bars of this prescribed silence.
I’m breaking silence
for all those seeking shelter
sleeping on the streets
with nothing to eat
while fat cats go out to eat
seven days a week
others struggle taking daily leaps
just to make ends meet.
I’m breaking silence
for all the kids
who just wanted to express themselves
without double-doubting
what they saw as proud
their unique courageous sound.
Though most times we get beaten around
told we’re lesser than the ground,
negative words can overcrowd
inner thoughts
making love rot-
causing love to rotten.
I’m breaking silence
For all those going to school full time
with a full time job and another one too
just to pay rent dues
with no room to snooze
manageable to lose one’s mind
over dense overworked times.
Real life got me stressing
even with an education
I’m living payday-to paycheck.
Been taught,
“I’ll rest when I die”
IM BREAKING SILENCE
For all the boys who got taught
that we outta fight
the weak thoughts
that emotions weren’t made for us
“Put your fists up,
don’t give a fuck,
get rich or die trying;
As if money bought us the horizon.
–At a young age I learned
that physical connection
was merely a pleasurable oppression
degrading to women
concentrated on male gazing
and violent domination
with monstrous verbal language.
IM BREAKING SILENCE
to all the questions in my thoughts
when I’ve always been told not
to speak out on how I feel.
I FEEL as if masculinity
–generally associated roles and ideas of boys and men–
is my greatest, darkest, loathsome bully
fully tossing and turning
my gut feelings start churning.
Throat aching-heart burning
though I’m buried deep under temptations
suffocating from expectations
of what a boy should be
when he becomes a man.
I’M BREAKING SILLENCE
for all the lost boys
who don’t care to fit in,
who question their guidance,
who want to speak up,
to share their brotherly love,
who know how to empathize
with all sizes and vices.
IM BREAKING SILENCE
for ALL MY wrong doings
from the degrading hip hop & rap
to the harmful jokes,
from being dishonest,
to breaking promise.
To having nearly lost it all,
to continually banging my head against the wall
drowning out the pain with alcohol
and never being taught
other methods of undoing this knot.
IM BREAKING SILENCE
for all the narrow minded ignorance,
saying, ” man rules over everything”.
Trash that mentality!
One by one, I’m yanking out the toxic roots,
trying to break the loop
of this consistent numbing
of what my inner child is becoming;
cause there ain’t no rest for the wicked,
timid, limited spirits.
Vulnerability has the power to set us free
from our black holes, painful roles and confused souls.
IM BREAKING SILENCE FOR ALL THOSE FORCED SILENCED.
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