PLEASE HEAR MY POEM

tap, tap ,tap
hello my name is....
I'm a poet out of DC
No long story about me
but here goes my piece
Is this mic on
is my voice soft or silent
do I have the right delivery
are you looking for an erotic poet
spitting some erotic poetry
dissing government and the man
stroking his egotiscal violence
Oh,
I'm not quite you favorite
you might not heard of me
yeah, I don't recite my issh
I'm a poet, so its poetry I read
I don't start off with the yelling in cadience
I'm not political, or revolutionary
just listen and be patient
do I hear light whispering
so you're not here to listen
but you gave so and so
with the same poetry flow
and the same repeated poem
your undivided attention
I guess I aint gettin it
you looking for the poetry slammer
who be spittin it
one who serenade gyals with some kind of
fake as accent,
or long words crossed with street life intellegents
of you looking for that conscious brutha
with that conscious shit
dreadlocks, timbed up
rhymin fast like he on some Das Efx shit
Nah,
I'm poet,
so I stand here nervously at attention
so please look foreward and listen
give me, like I give you
my undivided attention

REPLACEMENT

I wish I could be the him,

making you smile and laugh

I wish my arms can be "the best hold you ever had"

Let me be the image in your dreams

Let me be, the reason you keep calling for no reason

Can I be the one that gets those good meals-

and touchy feels, while I'm eating

can I be the one

...that gets that perfect birthday gift-

or a just because gift

cause I saw it and said "I'm going to get that"

Why can't I be the one, you look deep into my eyes-

and take the condom off

and ask me to place creation inside

Where was that happiness with our togetherness

I don't hear the "oh girl about my man" with happiness

Don't remember you holding my hand while outside

don't remember your hand resting on my thigh

while I drive

Never got that kiss goodnight that lasted for hours

hell, never came to work

and on my desk

I discovered flowers

but he does

and he does nothing great for you like I did and still do

but he gets the royal treatment

for just being partially loyal

while you cover up the mistreatment

I'm on the outside looking in

at this standing tall and pretending man

watching my.......REPLACEMENT


By LeRoy TNW Goetzendanner

YOU, CAN HURT ME

I love you,
and as much as I want to move fwd-
in the pursuit for you
there are detours, that have me on all fours
not like a dog, but becoming your stepping stool
walking all over me, while I'm walking next to you
but I have this problem
my problem is you have a UN-delegated power
to get me to submit and allow you to get this far with me
so here is the problem,
before it becomes a lovers win
its a task to act on faith
before we lust from sin
thinking love was a disease,
I try to deny this deficiency
I'm lost, being guided by the heart
like I'm a love sick zombie
because....YOU, YOU CAN HURT ME

Not blowing your head up
with this "BRAGGING RIGHTS" on your gift
don't want you to think too hard
on this armor your come with
but I've let you go further deep with me
then the Great Wall of China, has length
why let this go any further,
"IF YOU SAY I'M JUST A FRIEND"
because YOU, YOU CAN HURT ME

Now I know its not your goals
to wake up one day and have this control
hurt builds a new person,
that new person developing a stronger soul
but lessons are not learned from hurt
it just builds a tolerance of adjusting to hurt
it gives those who has experienced hurt
to hurt less today, and prepare for tomorrow
so I'm your first step to see if you can trust again
but your abusers left spirits in you
now you are the abuser over the victims
and instead of getting him, you evict him
convict him, like your past convictions
hiding to the world you were once a victim
playing the defense to break down emotional fences
and destroying any thoughts of feeling
so you'll let them feel and continue to watch
with no feeling
see YOU, YOU CAN HURT THEM

While I identified my flaws
as much as I want to leave
I keep riding around in circles back to you
like someone burried my draws
the further your heart is from me
the more mine leans, while my mind leaves
This could be a lesson for woman to see
if you want him to stay
just ignore his feelings
the harder you play
the more he will chase
it seems like your doggin him
but that behavior keeps a dog in place, (A woman's best friend)
So I keep my love protected like a condom
though protection is only 98.5 effective
I got to continue to my service, as if it was selective
my objective, is not to stand for getting hurt,
as if love was an elective....course
You do have the ability
whether its your plan to hurt, physically or mentally
see I'll be that ass to stay,
and deal with this heart breaking abusing
I'll take my chances, until romance becomes a healing
in the mean time
I LOVE YOU, even though
YOU CAN HURT ME........

By LeRoy TNW Goetzendanner

THE WAIT

She was a blessing when we met
a gift for a healthier life
a position, to be filled by my side
a thought with words behind it
she inspires me
looking to gain her
to be one with her
to know justice is not served

if we can't get away with love as our crime
When I turn off the lights tonight
I click on a dream of you
see,
I can't make you love me
but I can earn a respect towards the idea
we can run away from each other but at the end of the road,
we will run back into each other
back into love
if your mind is open to it
I'll wait,
but patience is for those who believe in rewards
so instead of waiting, I believe in faith over wait
faith will out weight the wait
girl, I see you balling
but your time of stalling
is now becoming a calling
relax girl, and start falling
so I can catch you with love......

 

 

By LeRoy TNW Goetzendanner

INDIFFERENCES..........

I told her she was my rock
but she took that and threw stones
I mentioned that she was my soul mate
yet, she is constantly dividing our spirits
bragged she was my pen
though she turned it into a sword and Excalibur-ed it in my back
I thought she was my beating heart
but its not love she is feeling,
I inhale and exhale her, she is my breath
but she takes my breath away and smother me to death
...

I love her kisses
but she is a kissing bird, she only pecks
I hug her and hold her
she hugs me like I'm one of the boys
I compromise
she negotiates
I discuss
she debates
I express
she vents
I speak with thought
she says what she meant
I'm wrong when she is right
when I'm right, its still wrong
my first words, is her last words
my subtle verb usages, verses her cussing with words
there is no right and wrong with us two
that's why we are still together, despite the feud
INDIFFERENCES..........

 

By LeRoy TNW Goetzendanner