Tag: POEMSFROMTHETRAP

MY BABY COUGAR

I met you I didn’t properly vet you if I did I would have known that it’s damn near impossible to leave you alone
You had me gone at that first stretch I said to myself she did that for me I’m willing to bet you said you had someone but was ready for an emancipation like Katrina just hit and you were waiting on FEMA feeling real Haitian usually I wouldn’t mess up a happy home but you could make a preacher be bad to the bone anything that would be a red flag I convinced myself people change plus it’s not that bad I put my seatbelt on spark one up and get ready for the ride I don’t know if we’re in a car a boat or a plane I just hope we’re not on two dummy missions fueled by game

OLD EARTH

Who’s gonna run the family when the matriarch dies who’s gonna make sure that our flag still flies high who’s gonna make the hard decisions who can replace over eighty years of living
Listen to those stories they’re full of who you are listen to the stories they’re straight from the heart you can learn a lot about your future from their past sit down take notes like it’s class if you listen I promise you’ll learn something from the time before we had peace to the definition of elbow grease

JULY 25, 2010

One of the happiest days of my life up to that point because tomorrow I’m going home leaving River City you know the joint
My baby wanna come and pick me up but I got stops to make got my boy to pick me up who later ended up being a fake but that’s a whole different story that I’m not ready to go into
Told baby I’ll see you a little bit later I have some people to go check out but don’t worry your backs gonna still get blown out
Went to see mommy first both of us into tears we burst I think that was the longest hug ever like John McCain’s mom when she thought the next time she would see him was never
Next on to my Oma and Opa sweetest couple in the world got advice from my old earth now on the way to see my girl
Well pit stop first I gotta activate this phone make a few calls let everyone know I’m home
So now it’s 9:30 and we’re finally together it’s calm outside but in here it’s a torrential downpour type weather from the black silk sheets to the bathroom floor we were dehydrated got some Gatorade and went some more
The life changing moment was when the light came through the balcony doors I wanted to wake you up just to talk to you some more your spit game was better than mine we started planning a baby and with me it was fine
After that you took me to the Ugly Biscuit, ok if I had a time machine this is the day I would relive and after knowing the outcome I would have more passion to give not just in the bedroom but about our life that we live looking back you should have been with me on every stop if only I could rewind the clock than this madness would stop

ADVENTURES OF SINGLE PARENTS

Is it better for the child to see their parents respect one another and not grow up feeling like maybe they were the one that made it out of a broken rubber, when I say that I don’t necessarily mean married or in a relationship either, y’all could easily make co-parenting the shit and make other parents believers, if she ask you to do something and you can why not ? don’t tell her no then be online showing off everything you got, leave her new flame hassle free too, so hopefully she’ll do the same thing for you, of course his new girl gonna be intimidated by you for awhile, she wouldn’t be there if y’all didn’t break up plus y’all have a child, he has to hear it from her about you, he doesn’t need you to tell him about his little girlfriend too, he knows she’s not you that may be the point, or maybe he’s waited for you to come off the bench with the oil and anoint

WHY BLACK MEN DON’T CHEAT

I knew we weren’t gonna make it from the go
How much I was gonna fall in love with you is what I didn’t know
I tried to leave a thousand times but when I got to the door memories clouded my mind

Really all our first and I asked myself is it me that changed & am I making things worse

I mean I don’t cheat anymore but I guess that’s not enough I respect our relationship but you make it rough
I do so many about faces I feel like a soldier and you act like you don’t understand I’m a black man with the world on my shoulder
I’m putting my clothes back in the dresser here I stand a dedicated father and man no lesser I’m trying to fight to save my family I want to be a father but not absently

PIMP OR DIE

I have a stalker that I love, I should be in church but I’m in the club, I think the attention is like a drug to my self confidence, yeah I know that’s supposed to be autonomous, whenever I need to feel love or get lost in the moment, I know you are down because you’re my biggest proponent, I act like I’m not interested to see how far you let me take it, then you turn on the charm and to myself I say might don’t make it, once again I wake up next to my number one fan, it’s been seven years & don’t ask me because I still don’t understand, maybe I don’t have a stalker I’m just seeing competitive spirit, or maybe I’m in a relationship but refuse to endear it