I Am...

by Tamon G   Apr 14, 2006


I am an explorer,
Christopher Columbus wannabe in a ship
made out of my courage,
it’s just as strong as wood.
With countless times believing I can't,
water just pours in from a leak in my courage,
so I always think I could.
In the ocean of my failures,
that will sink my determination whenever
doubts flooded my mind,
things don't look so good.
With my boat at the bottom of the ocean,
I’m struggling to swim or I can just
stop swimming and join my boat,
now my will to live has turn into a will to die,
I should.

I am a drinker,
Jack Daniels is the fluid that enters
my mouth that flows down into my stomach,
where it’s chemical can make me act
in a certain way.
Makes me forget stuff from time to time,
maybe I don't want to remember stuff,
what month is this anyway?
Let me head back to the liquor store,
first I need money, which I don't have,
what should I get? Alize?
I need a drink to escape the stress
that I and others have put on me,
words trapped inside my soul on
the pages of my life,
but they will stay just as words, cause those
words I will never say.

I am a joker,
Eddie Murphy has nothing on me,
he has Delirious, but I have...
What do I have?
just my imagination.
My jokes are what I'm known for,
my words are only jokes in person's eyes
with no truth behind them, or motivation.
I feel used at times well my jokes that is,
being brought into certain situations
where my jokes will be helpful,
but it makes me feel like a slave,
where's my cotton plantation?
Sometimes it’s true I can't even find the line
between my jokes and the truth,
I need some direction in my life,
I'm lost in my own creation.
Because I have no idea where my life is going,
what the cards have for me in the future,
everyone uses me, so why don't I?
What can I do? There’s only masturbation.

I am a poet,
Richard B. Wright was the first poet that I
could read in between the lines and understand,
and that turned my way life around 360 degrees.
I am poetry backwards,
I start everything with “y”, but I mean why,
like why when I ask someone to marry me I have
to go down on one knee?
Then I answer my own questions backwards that
means I start with "p" because I like to
answer things in a form of a poem to make
people fully see.

I am whatever,
a person with blood that flows
through my veins through my body to the heart
where love is suppose to be.
I am whatever that flies out of a tree,
but I'm not a bird,
but I am free.
I am whatever I see in the mirror every morning and
every night or whenever the mirror looks in my
direction cause I know and my mirror knows,
even God would agree.
That an explorer, a joker, a poet are everything that
describes what I am and that is,
me.

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