If we could see into the future

posted Fb

#186 What The Future Holds

He said I wasn’t listening

He said I didn’t care

I was like all those others

Who simply were not aware

I was listening

Maybe listening too much

Conversations were disjoint

Still very much out of touch

He said I needed to be careful

There were things he could see

He said it wasn’t looking good

For you and me

I asked him what he knew

Where he was getting these things

He could not disclose

But he meant everything

I wanted to ignore him

But what if he was right

What he had foreseen

Happened here tonight

Would I listen to him in the future

Maybe proving

That what he knew was right

Or was this just the ramblings

Of someone travelling too near to the light

I wanted to reach out

Tell him everything would be alright

What he had predicted for me

Was not going to happen tonight

But I couldn’t be sure

Doubt had set in

Wasn’t sure if I was coming or going

Now not sure where I had been

So he had won

With his twisted talk

Making me look behind

Whenever I walked

So That's why Black Men keep getting shot.

In Prison.  I would like to say I have never been to prison, but that would be a lie and that is something I won't do is lie.  I could say I was a Political Prisoner well for 2 and 1/2 days doesn't sound like much but it was long enough to decide I didn't like it and don't want to go there again.  How you use your time in every day life is important .  As a nation of people we waste so much time, we may as well be incarcerated, time wasted is time gone not to be repeated.  How much of you that is taken away? so much and more, your dignity, your home, your family, your purpose they do, they take your life.  I know it sounds dramatic let's just hope it doesn't happen to you.  How can you ensure this.  All you need is a few ill timed events, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, associating with the wrong people. Being Black and male is a good a reason as any it would seem to be locked up.  What came first the Prisons or the Prisoners.?

Once you are in there is no getting out.  You remember Shawshank Redemption and Red going up for parole year after year when he finally gave up hope they approved his parole.  Crazy or how about Andy swimming through all that excrement to be free could you do it? would you do it?

My only advise is try your best to avoid and any encountering s with the law.  I go out of my way to avoid all contact.  As far as if a crime is committed against me would I report it?  On the occasions when I have it has never gone that well apart from once when my phone got taken and the Sergeant took a shine to me and took me out for a night out.  Did they return my phone? was I compensated? do I feel safer ?  No!  I would go as far to say other than for the purpose of maybe an insurance claim I would avoid at all cost having anything do to with the Police.  For instance when the Racist repair men entered my home to carry out some work after the the sighting of mice.(eek get over it, it is London) .  They found some soiled papers from under behind  a kithcen draw where there was obvious mice activity and placed it in my kitchen draw and helped themsleves to £30 of my money.  On reporting this the officer suggested it was similar to receiving a dirty till receipt at M & S. Then would I complain about that?  It would be random so NO! I wouldn't .... I wanted to scream.

So Black Men getting shot by Police in America . What is going on? Is it the culling of a race?  Why are they all running? Why are they being shot? why are they always Black? Do we really all look alike?  This is narrowed minded on the Officer's part , after a trial in America where most Black Men will not even be able to follow the proceedings due to education being so damn expensive if they hadn't been excluded from an early age anyhow.  They would probably be convinced into accepting a 'Plea Bargain' and be served a long sentence which they wouldn't know how to go about appealing and end up languishing in jail.  Providing the Prison Officer, and staff, the Lawyer, judges and all the Court staff with employment.....

Working for the Government

posted fb 28th January  

#350 Working for the government

I work for the Government

sitting on the dole

I sign on fortnightly

I do as I am told

I really should be out there

raising up a fuss

but there are no jobs

as they have failed  all of us

I see people hustling

to make ends meet

there is less on the table

eating has become a treat

Our children may never work

this makes me sad

as I have experienced being useful

I don’t just mean being Mum and Dad

we wait for the old to move on

so we can take their seats

they are reluctant to sit down

they remain on their feet

how did it get so bad?

what has gone on?

it doesn’t matter who is in charge

they’ve all got it wrong!

The last Poem???

posted fb 2nd Feb 2014?

#365 Sunday

I love Sunday

say what you want

it isn’t like any other day

it ends the weekend

it starts the week

it is a day that can’t be beat

whether you spend all morning in bed

waiting patiently to be fed

there is something special about this day

that separates it from other days

some chose to go to church

some spend the day in front of the stove

waiting for the family to sit down

to a lovely family lunch

we now have the luxury of going to the shops

this is something I think should really stop

as if there isn’t enough time during the week

this is some anti family plot

we really should defeat

Money in property

Posted FB

#344 Money to be made

They said there is money to be made

but that’s my home

and the mortgage I will have to my grave

how could I gamble

with my home

there is money to be made

if I am willing to gamble

realising it could go one way or the other

I wish I got on the housing market

as soon as I can

too busy working hard

too busy playing mum and dad

turning my hand to what I can

years securing a safe home

now I gamble

when the bank won’t even give me a loan

so who can I turn to

where can I go

I know people who have done it

the tricks they will not show

this is one journey I have to take  on my own

If I was a Millionaire

Posted FB 

#348 If I was a millionaire

If I was a millionaire

would I be happy?

or would I live in fear?

expecting to be killed

at every spot

not sure who is my friend

now I have all that I have got

I am not talking a couple

I am talking a few

to the point of so much money

I wouldn’t know what to do

after I have done all I can

I guess I will just become a recluse

it seems to be the prospects

of what the very rich do

What do you have to do to get an Oscar

Posted on FB 

#347 The Oscar buzz

What happens at the Oscar’s

is a disgrace

we wait and wait patiently

to be acknowledged in this race

we can create a great movie

get best director

but our actors

they will not make a fuss

I remember the year

when Denzel got his globe

he played a cop gone wrong

strung out on drugs

these are the roles

that the oscar’s love

that same year

the unbelievable occurred

they gave the oscar

to Halle Berry

An acting Black Girl

Now as I understand

it was full of sleazy scenes

and lust

so now we know what to do

to create an oscar buzz