Every Thing

Joy
Love
Every thing
Air
Dreams
Never enough
Every thing
Heart
Soul
Supreme
Every thing
Lost
Found
Beyond my dreams
Every thing
Sunrise
Twilight
My night
My
Every thing
To me...
©2010cchristopherbess

Nothin'

Nobody's perfect, but the consistency at which entities attempt to demean and destroy the achievements of others must stop. If not, in the end, we will all have...

"Nothin"

They don't trust
They don't want nothin'
'Cept for me and we
With nothin'
Full of smiles
Always frontin'
Hate it when we give 'em
Nothin'

History made
We headin'
Nation that gave us nothin'
Made us hurt
Made us fight
Searchin'
Lookin' for a piece of that heaven;
Full of smiles
Always frontin'
Make me wanna stomp 'em

See it on every level
Massa forgotten
That devil
Still tryin' to rob
Embezzle
My community's achievements
Level
Then blame it on the ones
That settle;
Here 'em laugh
Know they frontin'
Won't be satisfied till we got
Nothin'

I could lift up my shoestrings
I could lift up all their dreams
I could get all them degrees
I could raise all my monies
Invent and save things
Precious to their fantasy
I could earn another ring
Trophies
I could sing in all the right keys
From the time I crawl
Till they bury me
They'll be huntin'
They'll be sweatin' me
Full of smiles
Always frontin'
Won't be satisfied
Till we got
Nothin'...
©2010cchristopherbess

Night Song #2

I don't care what you do
If you leave today
I don't care if your heart
Tells ya you should stay
Moving on without you
Seems a better way
Just know I'll love you
Until the end of days.

I remember a boy
Who asked for love
At first it was toys
Then it was an angel from above
And one day escape
But that just goes to say
Maybe dreams of his youth
Became regrets of his maturity.

I don't care what you do
If you leave today
I don't care if your heart
Tells ya you should stay
Moving on without you
Seems a better way
Just know I'll love you
Until the end of days.

He ran into you
Along the way
To finding his soul
The place he'd want to stay;
With the love that you made
I guess it goes to say
The dreams of his youth
Became regrets of his maturity.

In matters of the heart
One cannot play
In matters of my love
What can I say?
Angels aren't meant to be bound
To this world in any way
As the dreams of my youth
(Too many times)
Became regrets of my maturity.

I don't care what you do
If you leave today
I don't care if your heart
Tells ya you should stay
Moving on without you
Seems the better way
Just know I'll love you
Until the end of days.
©2010cchristopherbess

Against The Wall

This piece was specifically composed for my 1st turn as a poetry slam judge. When I was originally contacted about participating in the event, it was to be as a competitor, but the organization felt I would have a considerable advantage as a published author. Instead the judges role was offered and I was asked in a compromise of performing a few pieces in order to promote my book, to compose a piece with a specific theme of leather. Hmmmm, I wonder how THIS will go over? Enjoy!

"Against The Wall"

Beneath his sentry
He licked it
Split
It
Tapped it
Trapped it
Strut it
Against the wall
With hungry eyes
Wanting it
Lusting it

Between his Damascus
He spanked it
Wet
It
Lit it
Burned it
The smell of his Presidente
Lingering
Between the aromas
Of a saline musk
And a red-striped cod
Piece
Like me
Fell
Bowed
Around his waist
Vowed
As so many others
To get in line
To

Lick it
Stick it
Spit it
Piss it
Drink it
Swallow it
Shower it
Show it
Slap it
Tap it
Wrap it
Wear it
Dap it
Lube it
Love
It
Do it
Over
And over
And
O-ver...
©2010cchristopherbess

Salvia Officinalis

What Will your verse be
In the great cry that is life?
A ballad
As crisp as roses in bloom
Against a springtime melody?
Or a requiem
Like billowing gray thunderheads
Filled
With the sorrow
So often misplaced as your own?
What will be sung
As you are lowered or scattered?
Cerulean notes off rhythm
Sublime?
Or cherry compositions
Kind?
Ready to burst solutions
To the enigma of you
Beyond those who would know...

Think not of your tune
But your tone
For it's never the song memorized
But the cyclic harmony
That plays in the mind
Resounding verse upon verse
To make sweet the memory
Of the stanza lived
To make sweet the song
Of the verse that lives...
©2009clarencecbess

Mellow

Took you off my walls
Unpinned you
Stored you away
With other eyes
I can't forget
But had to move on from

That was years ago
And now you're here
Beneath my broom
Covered in time's sand
And the memories
I try to sweep away

I'll need to sit for moment
Stare at your face
In my mellow mood
With mellow songs
To fill this space
And go...

It was best.
©2010cchristopherbess

Liquid

Will you run to me
Will you come to me
With your liquid dreams
With your fantasies
That hold you close
Every time they run away
With your soul

Will you tell me things
That you never thought you'd say
Beyond liquid dreams
When your tongue slips away
And they really know
That It's so easy
To run away with your soul

Will let me be the one
Despite your history
To wipe your liquid fears
From the eyes of your misery
To hold you close
Every time they run away
With your soul

Would you run with me
Into possibility
Let me take your soul
Show you liquid dreams so bold

Will you lay with me
Let me write you songs
Of those
Liquid things that flow
When one knows
That it's so

Right

Flow me
Down with me
Liquid ecstasy
Come to me with your soul
And be as liquid

Free...
©2010cchristopherbess