Never Do Like You

  

I will never do like you do

Because you will never do

Like I do

I spent my days

Over empty pages

Pouring out my emotions

Trying to live my life

Through the different stages

You will never be

Like me

Because there are certain things

You will never see

You will never know

what`s happening inside

I put on another face

Trying to hide

Am I less of a man?

I don`t understand

Why am I being pushed aside

To not live my life

In a normal society

But you will never do

Like I do

I walk these streets

Like a shadow

Trying to fit in behind another

I don`t have a world for myself

Because I’ve been living

In the world

Of someone else

But now I know

I will never do

Like you do

Not at all

Because when these pages

Are filled

I put the writing on the wall

For all to see

Because I’m tired

Of hiding in the shadows

So I came out in the light

To share my story

With the whole world

© Leon Pryce

                 Excerpt from my book “Immortalized Through Poetry”

Please continue to support my work by visiting my author page at: www.ctupublishinggroup.com/leon-pryce-.html

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New Poetry Book Coming Soon

cover of my new book entitled "Immortalized Through Poetry."

Today is not a day for writing poetry but a day to let you know what`s been happening with me.

As I sit down to write this piece, I reflect on my life and what poetry means for me. I realized that each day I live; I am one day closer to my destiny, wherever it may be. I have more poetry to write and more love to share with the world and I will not let sickness, poverty and depression steal my joy and my motivation.

Leon Pryce wishes to thank you all for your love and support on my poetic journey through life. I have written a poetry book and it has been sitting on my table for the longest time; and I know that my fans have been dying to get a hold of it. Well until I get some financial backing then I will not be able to print any hard copy, nevertheless I am working hard on the manuscript so that I can put it up online.

I know that my poems have touched many lives out there and while life goes on then I will have to continue live on. What I have to give is all that I’m able to give, and that is love and poetry.

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BROKEN WINGS

In this dark world of loneliness

I was consumed by thoughts

That no one cared

About me

Laden with anguish

Because of these:

Broken wings, broken dreams

And a broken heart

A broken soul, broken life

Torn apart

Shattered like glass

Both future and past

There were no answers

For all the questions that I asked

When you came along

And embraced me

I felt your healing powers

Vibrating through me

You changed my world

Transformed my life

And gave me a new heart

You healed my soul, my scars

And rid me

Of all fears and doubts

From a sorrowful life

To an awakening

That inspired the greatest of things

You have healed my broken wings

With your hands of love

And now I can freely soar

To the highest heights

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Black In Time

Let`s go black in time
Come with me black to history
Black to the mother land
Where we rightfully belong
Black in time before the Europeans
Tried to whitewash our
Skins and minds
Black to the kingdom and ancestry
Black, way black before slavery

Black am I
Not just the color of my skin
The pupil of my eyes or the hair on my head
But black at heart, black in my thinking
And black in my thoughts

Black in time
Black my story, every sentence, every line
Black every rhythm and every rhyme
Black the days on their slave ships
Heading across the ocean lines
Black the shackles and the chains
Black the whips that cut our veins
Black the blood that stained the lands
Black the heart of every whiteman
Black the husbands and the wives
Black the circumstances which changed our lives
Black the mother and the father
Black the separation from each other

Black, black, black, black
Black the struggles and the fights
Black the system which took away
our rights
Black the midnights we tried to make
our run
Black the rope on the tree that hung the ones
Who wish to be free

Black, black, black, black
Let`s go black and turn the world around
Let`s take black our civilization
Every continent and every nation
Let`s take black the white man`s dominion
Let`s take black our rightful rulership
No more subjection under
The whiteman`s dictatorship
Let`s black out the pages
of the white man`s days
And attribute the praises
to the black liberal race

Black my eyes and the things they see
Black the vision of those who preceded me
Black Marcus, Selassie and Mandela
Black Obama and the Christ
Black the life I live because of their sacrifice


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This Isn`t Love

You say you love me

But this isn’t love

The way you treat me

This isn’t love

I gave you my all

But you made me

Look small

I accept you

For who you are

Made you a part of my world

My friends even criticized me

Because of the royal treatment

I gave to this little black girl

This isn’t love, It can`t be

You getting pregnant

For another man

After you proclaimed that

All you had belonged to me

No way

This isn’t love

Think again

I made straight every corner

And every bend

It is on you

That all my hard-earned money is spent

But still you run off with

Some other men

You claimed you love me

But you redefined love

Because clearly

This isn’t love

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What If Life Was A Dream

I never wanted to open

My eyes

To this cruel world of reality

Because every time

I’m awake

I felt like something has been stolen from me

Going to sleep each night

Is like going on an adventure

Like surfing the

World Wide Web

And nothing is censored

What if life was a dream?

What if you could live

That one blissful moment forever

What if the happiness

And the joy

Never cease to exist

Then you could live your life

Just as if you were sleeping

Last night

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