Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Eternity


I'd like to swim through his bloodstream for one blissful moment.....I yearn to make his heart my humble abode.
I picture his spirit as my cavern...and I hide myself in his soul when fear chases me. His eyes tell me bedtime stories; he whispers sweet haikus in my ears takes me on cerebral vacations.
I delight myself in the richness of his masculinity: I am a part of who he is.
We are bound with spiritual clay & together we build our very own ETERNITY.


© Sherine Tatum

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Be It All Or...

Be blessed knowing that meaning lies within the understanding
That understanding is just farce, nothing is to be understood.
The underlying meaning of sense and sensibility is concept,
That which is conceived is not to be judged, measured, or ruled.
Thought is to roam free, intuition is to be law and all that is creative,
Be given the license to evoke the spontaneous production of more creativity.
A general unwritten law of society dictates,

"We the people, widely brainwashed by Conglomerate America, do solemnly swear to overspend our underpaid wages in the pursuit of following suit. As promised, we will achieve life, liberty, and the pursuit of PlayStation 3!!"

Be it all true or not America is suffering,
We have money for war, money for athletes and entertainment,
Billion dollar companies in race for more profit and the education system is failing,
Plummeting are the dreamers, thinkers, shakers, movers, and observers.
Let's work at preserving thought because without it we have nought,
so be it all or....

I Feel Like....

I feel like...
Swan diving off of the Empire State Building for new chalk in the classroom.
Holding Congress at gunpoint for textbooks printed after 2000,
Stabbing Jay-Z cause he made 50's career,
Cutting up build boards advocating joining the armed services.
Putting George W. on trial for the murder of every Afghany child murdered in the war on terrorism,
Hanging a banner from the Statue of Liberty that says, "Sorry, but we are at capacity for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Please direct your huddled masses elsewhere."
Burning a copy of the Lattice method of multiplication on the entry way for MIT,
Spitting in the face of all the cops who walked away from the murder of Sean Bell,
Lying in a bed of dead roses,
Washing in holy water,
And air drying in the cavity of Love's ear.
Smelling Pine sol when I walk through the halls of my old project building
Hearing the sounds of silence at 1:00 A.M., apposed to that of resounding gunshots.
Touching the hearts of at least one 9-year-old, by playing "Umi Says"
Tasting the sweet victory of change
Seeing a new year end without the problems of an old

Stillness

in those moments....
those moments when your silence is so loud I can hear the echoes of
I...i...
Love...love...
You...you...
in the hollows of my chest.
Yes. I said I love you...in the perfect posture of connectivity,
My hands wrapped around your waste, breathing deeply against your kneck.
You sleep, ass arched into my pelvis, hand folded in mine.
I said those words....
You never heard them.
I committed to you...subconsciously and consciously,
I adored you in simulation to the tree that bends right toward the ray of sunshine.
Rooted...but yearning for the freedom of your nurturing light.
I was your canvas...
Paint on me your dream, I'd immortalize those images for as long as time allowed.
But...
My kisses went unfelt.
My words went unheard.
My professions of unrelenting love and passion for you,
Left shivering in a cold wet state of depression..
In the stillness...

Awaken

Today....
I am not a man...
I am merely a being in the likeness thereof,
Trying to see the world for the first time through unbiased eyes.

Today...
I am not Myk Dyaleks,
I am no incarnation of,
I am not rhyming to save myself and the countless millions who’ve forgotten,
I am not writing till the wee hours of the morning,
I am not listening to the same beat for 3 hours straight,

Today...
I am not Mr.G,
I am not going to frustrate myself wanting more than my students do from themselves,
I am just going to push the curriculum and not argue for their future.
I am not their savior, I shall not be crucified.

Today...
I will still be the only son she has left,
I will not tolerate anymore guilt for the relationship we don’t have.
I will not stand idly by and listen to endless bullshit of why that is my fault..
I will be the person I am, grow, and become a better person than i was.

Today...
There’s only now.
There’s only this.
I refuse to regret a minute of my life,
For the acceptance of that is the admittance of time wasted.
I will waste none of my short visit on this beautiful rock.

Today...
I will be a better me, than I was yesterday...
If these lids ever roll back...