Born again

*Heavy Breathing*

I just keep running…
Faster and faster I just keep running
Hitting walls, tripping over stones
Getting caught in lies
Give away my time
Aging with an ageless face
But you can see the age in my eyes
The tears that I’ve cried
Permanently stapled to my gaze
Dazed in my own haze
I just keep running watching the world go by

CLEAR

*Relaxed exhale*

I watched them all pass…
As I passed them by
The fast life caught up
But I’m not the one that died
They suffered my pain
Didn’t listen to the advice I was given
As I grew up they grew down
They kept getting hurt as I healed
Lost their purpose as I found mine
And smoked it away as I developed my sound mind
For the ones that’s left stop running
Because time catches up no matter how fast you ride

Jalili B. Jimiyu

Yeah it’s copyrighted © 2008

Right Now (2nd go around)

Right now I’m trying to think of something to write
To move nations with the sound of my voice

And right now some one’s in need of a message to move them forward
Because they’re stuck in the same place

And right now they feel that their right at the edge of life and hell
With the feet inching closer to the tip of a bottomless well

And right now some one is standing behind them trying to lift them up
But the weight of the world is for them to help

Right now some one else is getting shipped back to war
Even though the government said there’s no point in fighting any more

And right now some one is praying for the bombing to stop
While they sit alone in a hole wonder does God even listens any more

And right now somebody’s happy while somebody’s sad
And somebody’s living and somebody’s about to die

Right now as the world goes around
Somebody’s predicting when it’s all going to end how and WHY

But I’m just taken it in, using life as my ink to write a story with my mental pen
The holidays are going and year is nearing it’s end, and I’m ready to leave work but just to wake up and do it all again……

Jalili B. Jimiyu

Yeah it’s copyrighted © 2008

Right Now

Right Now

Right now I’m sitting here thinking
About some one who’s right now seeing
The that the world right now is not what it seems
And right now the world is getting even more unsafe
Because right now some one in a office is planning a war
With a country that is right now just thinking of ways
To feed its people that are starving right now

Right now I’m counting the days when I can leave this city
So that at this time right now on another day I can be sitting with my child
Who is probably being told that I don’t love her right now
When right now she is at the center of my thoughts
Even though right now I can’t afford to travel to see her
Right now I putting my money together so I can move a lot nearer

Right now I can care less about tomorrow
Because right now my focus is on 10 years from right now
So right now I’m putting my life on that path
And right now I can feel the bumps in my road
That will slow me down but I can’t let that worry me right now
Because I have a life to live in a memory of many that aren’t here right now
And right now I can only live in this moment and get ready for tomorrow

I want to change the world but I realize I can’t do it all right now
So I’ll study plot and formulate my actions right now
While that person I’m thinking of right now
Is beginning to see that right now the world isn’t what she thought it was
And right now as things in the world get crazier
Because a crazy people in offices are planning a war right now
With a country that is right now trying to find food
For the people that live there that are hungry right now

Right now I’m just readying my mind with all the things I learn

Right NOW

Jalili B. Jimiyu

Yeah it’s copyrighted © 2008

Definition (24)

I am the bump on the lump
The lost follower
The suicidal driver
I am the believer of lies
The teacher of empty thoughts
The breaker of concentration
The loser of sensible thinking in the game of Contemplation
I am the shame of brains
I am the sickness of propaganda eaters of today

I am the fool that will argue the truth with repetitive blame

I am the IDIOCRACY

Jalili B. Jimiyu

Yeah it’s copyrighted © 2008

Freedom smack

As black man with a free mind
And a locked down behind
My skin tone tends to scream for what it needs
Desiring to bleed what is in my mind
And feel what my bones cry out for
Wishing to push the weight of living off my shoulders
Then in one corner of my body something starts hurts
Feeling as if from the inside something is forcing its way out
I know that my soul doesn't like life
Yet I'm not ready to die
I still have things to do and so far I have yet to shorten my time
It's a staggering feeling to know that my soul hates the world
But I...have learned to shack it off
Just putting it to the side and play the unfair game
Blaming the world for the problems I face
But I am the only one at fault for excepting this fate
Working hard for a value free dollar
Which value seems to be worth more than me
And this nation just holds me thoughts and livelihood
Wrapped around it's finger in a sickening destructive marriage
Where I play the battered tattered mate in this hateful love affair
And it seems like we're all stuck right here
Loving this evil thing, waking just to work away another day
SPEAK UP IF YOUR BOLD
And get smacked down by complacent reality
Because everybody just wants to live
And living poor hurts
The pain in your belly, the cold of the outside world
Keeps us slaves to a system that bails out the rich, the hell with the poor
So not to be smacked down by the facts I...have learned to shack it off
Put it to the back of my mind
And over look the fact that my spirit wants to run free
Speaking when I can, mostly writing it down
Yeah so many things to speak about that sometimes are better displayed as poems
Because you tend to have more free speech in a poem that some people may never want to read
Feeling as if it is art they'll never get
More words to read after a long day of reading at work
“It's too deep, That can't be true, Stop the conspiracy BS TALK”
So they will over look it and me because it's just another political poem
Leaving me out of the Freedom smack
Allowing my speech to run naked with out fear of being cloth
Still...it doesn't stop the feeling of my soul trying to push it's way out of my heart

Jalili B. Jimiyu

Yeah it's copyrighted © 2008

Call into Existence

In the beginning was my mind
A single thought sparked the rise of my right hand
And in that hand was a pen
I took that pen and pressed in to a blank page

AND CREATED LIFE

I made feelings come alive
Through words and through verbs created action
Action that began to build sentences
Within those sentences contained years
Staked on a single life that gave off spring a chance to live
Instead of being aborted from memory
With the replacement of time in that single life’s mind
Giving it a home on pages

I played God so much I was given the title of JA
With my own need to start something new
I took this constant motion of change and gave form to my creations
My creations now worship me as they voice my truths
Educating those that don’t know me or my reality
Giving blind readers sight so they can see
In hopes that my written breaths breathe life into movements
Raising them from the dead

I make the impossible possible with every possible read line
With every possible creation I can possibly create
Giving a better possibility that my words can be heard

Whether your hear me or not just know that
I am the creator of this creation
And uncontrollably create more
Which will one day call into existence a life of its own

Jalili B. Jimiyu

Yeah it’s copyrighted © 2008

The new arrival

The room busy with heat, movement, and life
The tides of communication role on
Then from the open door slowly steps in a voice
A nameless face filled with thought
Few notices and those that do think little of the new comer

But unannounced he walks to the stage
Drops his coat from his shoulders
And as the eyes turn to him
He begins to speak.

These are his words
From his words are his thoughts
And out of his thoughts are his emotions

The dignified one has arrived.
With the desire to speak

Changing the world

Jalili B. Jimiyu

Yeah it's copyrighted © 2008

Missed Opportunity (Letting love walk away again)

I saw you see me...with a smile
That melted away with disappointment when I didn't say “Hey”
Your thoughts of yourself may have have felt so many ways
But it wasn't your fault of looks because you look amazing
It was me having a hard time reaching for beauty
Now the thing is I use the excuse fear of getting hurt
Or sill missing what I had forever wishing she was still her
The truth is I've been fearful like this my whole life
When it clicked in my head that I wanted you too
I turn rush back after I reached my destination
Running with confident to find you and hope you still want to get to know me
But already went away going on with your life in your world
Now your just another pretty memory I let get away
Haunting me wondering how it would have been with you
Seeing you smile in the morning
Making you laugh at night
Possibly no connection what so ever
Being turned off by each others minds
Or the worst choice of our lives to ever speak
But we will probably never know how this would have been
Because I missed another opportunity
When I once again let potential love walk away

Jalili B. Jimiyu

Yeah it's copyrighted © 2008

I still bring it

When change is the only constant
How can you proclaim you will bring it
Speak of how you will do it
Make it happen for all
Shift the swift direction life tends to stand on
How can you scream you'll make it different
When so many others want it the same
How can you get everybody to feel its going to happen now
Since its been happening long before you came along

HOW CAN I SAY I BRING CHANGE

When the worlds in forever orbit
Floating through time as we all grow from young to old
What makes me the force to make it so
Flip the sleep over to stop their snoring
Wake them with starting pistol to a new race
Ending the focus on nothing but Race
But make them see that the struggle is beyond you and me

HOW CAN I SAY I BRING CHANGE

How can any one else say they will do the same thing
I bring change because I live
I do it, I feel it, I see it, I smell it
I can taste the new flavor cooking up in the globes warming
Now I watch the clock tick ready for my time to come
So I can speak my message
So I can tell the truth
So I can help you see it
So I can prove that I still bring it

I STILL BRING CHANGE.......through my actions and that's the message

Jalili B. Jimiyu

Yeah it's copyrighted © 2008

Change Terrorist

I give my life which is all I have
To break the faith of the faithful cracks
Split in the flag now mad with power
I stand up as a Patriot Act felon to be
Yelling treason to the enemies of falsified freedom
While helping others on the boarder line find a selection
After years of misdirection, find a path to elevation
Dimly lit with hope but surrounded by distorted hate
Which is glowing brighter than the righteous path

With the glory glow of my goal given gun
I shoot off clip for clip in the direction of misleading stories
Raising the demise of ignorants
As my bullets of reality wound fictional propaganda
Striking fear in the hearts of Imperialistic Democrats
With videos shaming their Republican ways
Asserting my Independence every election I miss
I follow my movements with video warnings
Telling the world of their coming attacks
While letting this nation know it doesn't matter who's in power
Because they still promote and flood the planet with the same evil

But their fall will come
Possibly at my hands but most likely America's own
As they filter in their poison in the Media water
Murdering themselves with strangers with suicide bombs
As the collective imagination jumps to it's death
With a News show color coded push
Staged famines, Palestinian Phantoms, and Poor Powerful Pirates
Making them scared of their own thoughts
Locking away diversity under Martial Laws
Erasing 1776 from the history books
Giving rise to a 1984 reality......
That's why I stand against BIG BROTHER
Flip off their FLICKERING CAMERA'S
Proclaiming my post

9/11, SLAVERY, APARTHIED,
EMBARGO, FEDERAL RESERVE, COINTELPRO,
PLANNED PARENTHOOD, AIDS, SMALL POX BLANKETS,
FALSE MEDIA, CHOOSEN PRESIDENTS, FEMA CAMPS
TERRORIST ATTACKS
FOREVER CHANGING THE WORLD

All with a simple undying still standing REBELLION

Jalili B. Jimiyu

Yeah it's copyrighted © 2008