(WHEN I)

These days grow longer yet shorter and the night it comes, it comes.

Such a daunting thing the surety of finality, such a haunting thing.

To fear the night is such a foolhardy thing.l, it comes regardless.

From womb to cradle to walk and run, even those things become past.

The night it seems is not that far away even when young, man holding woman's hand in the halls of his prime.

He so young and virile, she so god-damned fine.

Got to break it down this way cause the dark is on the horizon, light consumed in a place we can only contemplate about.

Those who've come come back tell such conflicting tales, light at the end of tunnels and flashes of consciousness light.

Yet there it is, the edge of darkness looming right beyond sight.

The days grow longer in the midst of spring, yet the night it seems, has grown a bit too.

Darkness must consume.

JERALD HAMZAHFARUQ MURPHY 

(THEORIES OF RELATIVITY)

Motherfucker telling me a day on Venus is longer than one on earth like that shit matters when you in a living hell.

When you don't know when you gone eat again, if you gone make it to the end.

A day.

When a motherfucker on TV telling you the price of meat done went up again, the economy ain't been right in my neighborhood since slavery began.

A day.

Motherfucker on Instagram getting rich off of selling bullshit to the people again and again.

Same shit they fooled the black woman on the Young and the Restless on rinse and repeat.

Got the black men worrying bout the name on their shoes, the name on a car. Fuck a Benz.

A day.

Camera turned to that person again, man in a mirrored camera lens.

Selfie's seem so selfish as a baby goes to bed hungry right round the corner, a mother sells her body to make ends meet.

They who would call her a hoe looking at a phone screen, a most  panoramic sweep relatively.

A day on Venus is longer than one on earth.

I know that shit, it just don't seem that way.

Jerald hamzahfaruq Murphy 

(SAVAGELY)

(Oh Death)

Sun shines upon head

Winters wind blows so boldly

Darkness finds man cold

(He Lives)

Time has made him tough

Good and evil having merged

Yin and Yang in nature

(He Learns)

Born of Georgia clay

Traveled is his wearied soul

The things that he's seen

(Lessons)

Life and death are one

Beginning to the savage end

Lions eat bloodied meat

(Transcendently)

Moon shines on the dirt

No grass grows here right now

Man has been lain down

2617

4 loaves bread 

4 packs water

2 cans Walmart biscuits 

Hot sauce 

Butter

(What The Fuck)

(What Tha Fuck)

All this shit I done seen in these streets, anger , angst and anger leading to stupifying feats.

Tears trickling, running down cheeks.

Mama's down on they knees, sisters putting Molly on top of they trees, sprinkle sprinkle it's a drug induced mental disease.

It's enough to drive a black man insane, shit is all hyped up game, motherfuckers living in towers feeding on the pain .

I woulda cried, sometimes I feel like I shoulda died, all I can do now is elicit a sigh, tears forming in my prodigal eyes.

So much potential and doing 25 to life, all this internal stress and strife, brothers be in prison with a man for a wife.

This some a that shit they used to talk about, is this what y'all was marching bout? Black man been counted out, motherfuckers running round without no clout.

Religion ain't never ever won no war, relying on preachers ain't got us very far, once a year buying them a new car.

Some fandangled fucked up shit,

Here's some music to accompany it, falling, falling into a bottomless pit 

Ebony and Ivory blending into grey, where I come from they don't play.

All this motherfucking disarray.

All this shit, all this motherfucking shit.

Jerald hamzahfaruq Murphy

(THE SKIES AS REFLECTED IN THINE EYES)

We born of the cataclysm of an exploding star.

I have loved you since we were born of it's dust.

My heart strings sing of thy beauty.

The melanin tint of your skin so enticing.

The vibration of your voice sending tingles through my insides, down my spine.

Such intensity that I man sigh, goosebumps on mine skin

Breath expelled and inhaled.

I man find myself floating on gossamer waves of delight.

A prisoner bound to thy charms.

The cosmos displayed in the depths of thine eyes.

Mmmm... So succulent and I man mesmerized stand spellbound, locked in stasis.

You playing on the soundtrack of mine mind, the beat down in mine loins 

The spirals in your hair universes in an ever expanding cosmos where we, we are found alive.

An explosion and then came you, so vivid and true. 

The stars, the stars.

JERALD HAMZAHFARUQ MURPHY