Invaded

Surrender your campaign

Lower your flags

Stop the drums

Stop the flutes

Call back the scouts

Tell the centuries to stand down

She approaches.

Archers down

Swords sheathed

Muskets present

Infantry at ease

Let her in.

Prepare the feast

Raise the tent

Ready the gifts

Get the dancers

She is giving her love.

Wake up the blacksmith

Fetch the goldsmith

Gather all the seamstresses

Bring the finest horses

Adorn her with my love.

Get the carpenters

Buy the finest leathers 

Hire the jewelers

Build the finest throne 

She takes her place by my side.

Open the gates

Call the Truce

Let the demons take back the blackness

Reveal the light

Her eyes now light the way.

I burned valleys

I invaded and conquered

I gave nothing back

I answered to no one

Now...I love her.

Three Kings

The Maroon in my blood is injured but still fighting
Swinging his sword, angry and charging with his last few breaths.

The Irish in my blood is hardworking and dreaming of a better tomorrow.

The Indian in my blood respects the gods that made us and understands the spirits of the universe will do what they need to do when they need to do it and not one second sooner.

Black is my blood, white is my blood, brown is my blood.
The fighter, the worker, the dreamer.

They all use my hands, they all walk with me in my journey
They all listen with me but whisper what is true.
They all use my eyes to help me see the world as it is.

Born torn, they work together to create me
A unique me, a me no one else can see
For I am three kings.

When I die, they will go their separate ways
But will forever remember the years they all walked together,
Fighting, working, dreaming.

Black

My back is strained
Forced for centuries to carry your wealth

My feet hurt
Walking endless miles barefoot on jagged rocks and hot sand.

My hands are bruised and callused
Building your mansions and farming your fields.

My mouth is dry
Save the sweat pouring from my face.

My eyes are puffed
Crying as I step over my murdered brothers.

My neck is stiff
Hung too many times

My legs are bruised
For all the times you forced my sisters' legs open.

A mere cut on my body keloids
Still traumatized from endless lashes of your whips

My eyes are deep black 
The horrors we've seen have stained them forever

But my blood is rich red
Holding the spilled blood of all the Kings you killed

You stole our crowns
So we wear Afros to remind our sons where we came from.

We walk tall 
because you stole our sisters' pride, so we step for two.

We run faster 
Because you chopped our feet and shackled our dreams

We sing louder 
because for centuries we were silenced

We laugh harder 
So our laughter can echo to our forefather's graves who knew nothing but pain and make them smile

You killed us
but we have reborn and we will continue to be reborn until we restore our rightful place.

Your swords, guns ropes and bombs can only take our flesh
You will never take our birthright 

Time will see us restored
Time will see your demise
And our great-grandchildren will laugh for us while we smile in our graves holding the hands of our ancestors.

Faster

Like a horse ridden by a demon in a hot desert until it falls and dies of heat and fatigue
Like an eagle that flew so high and so fast it forgot where it came from
Like a gas tank so empty it hisses when you open it
I've gone so fast, so high and so far, I can't tell if I'm still moving
Too scared to look left, too scared to look right, terrified to look behind.
Fast is all I know to go, doesn't matter where, just not here.

Slowing down makes me feel the pain, slowing down makes me remember.
I can't slow down, I can't feel the pain, it hurts too much.
Stopping would kill me, stopping would mean facing it, facing it all.
I just need to go, I just need to run, I just need to fly.

They all want me to give a part of me they would never give.
They all say I owe them, what about what they did to me?
They used me, they use who I was, now I owe them?
If they can't find me then they can't use me, ever, again.
This one-way flight is to save me, from them.

I feel safe in this nowhere, yes, nowhere is now my home, because nowhere doesn't exist.
They won't find me, they won't use me, ever again
I have taken a flight that has no destination and I'm urgently rushing.
My pain is my fuel and it has no end, so I will race faster and faster, forever.
Faster is how I feel alive, faster is how the pain goes away, faster is how I lock them away.

God of speed hear me, let Anubis find me not, poison his search, spare my fate.
My heart will not be weighed, my life will not be written, by them.
No more, like the dead horse, no more like the gas tank, forget me, like the eagle
I comfort my escape, I beg to evaporate these memories, let me blaze my anger 
Let me run, let me fly for you could not manage my wrath if you grab my wrist.

The Loan

Borrow my lungs.

Wait a second, it's hard to breathe, I know.

I'm still in shock since she left.

Let the singe of our burnt house sting your nose.

Coughing is going to hurt, I was in there when it burned down.

Borrow my hands.

They're dirty from crawling, begging her not to leave

I carried a lot so my arms are tired

Let them rest a while now

Those bruises on my knuckles, let them heal.

I punched more than a few holes.

Borrow my legs.

They won't want to go though

I've had enough of this road

I don't know where to go anymore.

Lost and stuck feel the same at this point.

Borrow my eyes.

No use rubbing them though

All I see is her, leaving.

The nightmares will happen even when you're awake.

Her face will haunt you, forever.

I won't apologize for the tears, they come as a package.

Borrow my heart.

shhh, it beats slow, 

but if you listen carefully, you might hear true agony echoing faintly.

I wanted to die that day so my heart is just waiting for me to commit.

Mind the bandages, it's been through too much this time.

Love robbed, love betrayed, love broken.

A cliche sonnet sang over a millennia

But wear the parts of me that hurt the most,

And maybe this is a song not yet sung.

Defiant.

Ga ahead Time, take your best shot.
I can wait.
You plan to torture me with her face forever?
Go ahead, I will see her face until my soul starves at the bottom of a black hole.
 C'mon Time, whisper her voice in my head till I go mad.
I want to be drunk of her until the sun burns every atom of my existence.

You wanna fight me Time?
You think you can beat me Time?
You think that just cuz you know her body and how her hair smells,
that you can take away the taste of her lips from my mind.
No Time, I will be right there beside you enjoying visions of her.
So bring it Time.

Bring your land of solace, 
Bring your desert of pain.
My lust for her will keep my throat wet
My love for her will turn your land of solace into a paradise.

Stand over me and whip me with years since the last time I saw her..
The blood will only remind me of her lips.
The pain will only make me yearn for her arms.
Everything you do will only burn her memory deeper in my soul.

Do you know why you will never win Time?
You can't burn passion.
For it is made from the same element you depend on to snub her out of me.
In the end I will own you Time and I, will own my memory, of her.

Her loves bathes me
Her loves sleeps me
Her love keeps me
My love is armored in infinity.

She may never be by my side 
I may never feel her warmth
I may never kiss her lips
But you Time, will never take her from me.

The Great Wall

She would stare at me when I drove.
The world didn't exist when I was beside her.
We'd sing songs in homage the night sky on the highway.
The air wasn't allowed between us when we slept.
Her body held a treasure that I'd kiss her so deep to find.
She saw her future in me and planted herself as that seed ready to grow. 
But that seed was planted outside my wall, my great wall. 
My great wall that I was so proud of. 
An inpenetrable gate, tall and strong, never to be opened.
But she waited. By god she waited and she waited some more.
What I was protecting behind that wall was so precious to me, that I didn't see her standing by the gate  waiting to give me all of her.
I thwarted her. I turned her away.
When she pulled her roots out, I realised that under the wall, the earth of my core, my own roots had entangled with hers and it ripped the ground from under me as she walked away.
Now my wall protects nothing. It's hollow ground. I searched for what I was protecting hoping I could lean on it to save me, but it wasn't there. It never was. 
She is to be my new diamond to protect. She is supposed to be the world my great wall surrounds. 
I am to protect her the way she wants to protect my heart.
I am to let her in. 
She needs to grow in me and with me.
My exposed roots bleed and wait for her.

The gate is open.