Finding Faith - reposted with edits!

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Open Poetry #27

Finding Faith - reposted with edits!

x8x_bigmike
Member

since 2003-07-08

Posts 130
California, USA

0 posted 2003-07-25 04:47 PM

Under Pinero's tenement skies
I find myself in scribble
through late nights
detergent pens,
and blacklights
i write to become realized,
for the bars and broken cookies jars on the floor of my block remind me
i still have to be chameleon
while i find solace in all you poets,
the dudes on my block with glocks that jam,
and the 22 shots that ringout and slam
will never let me ride as a poet if they new the flip side
of my shaved head and hot hate eye.

but within,
memories stack like bodies
so my pen becomes the priest
giving last rights
while patients properly named
Insecurity
Betrayal
Hate
Passion
await
freedom

under Pinero's tenemant sky.
still I
Close my eyes,
and dream the day
Lico becomes Miguel
when survival lies become obsolete
when u can stand on the street
and stair at me atop a high rise
realized

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

1 posted 2003-07-25 05:07 PM

big mike, you see more from your vantage point on the roof of that high-rise, than most could see from the moon! Your open and insightful write shows just how "realized" you truly are! Keep those eyes open!

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