Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder
I saw her beauty before I held her,
But the blindness of society holds her
Defining what’s pretty
In another’s eyes that’s ugly
Discriminatory,
Too black, too fat,
Nose too wide and too flat,
Body type don’t fit the stats
Hair too nappy, cut your locks
Delilah, the best liar,
To fit in, silicone gets stuffed in,
There’s a ban on plastic so what you still doing,
Now beauty is extremely thick or extremely thin
Depending from which angle you’re looking
Or how tight the clothing,
For those who want revealing
And those in need of fluff concealing
Calling it toning
Pitch Black turn browning and still transitioning
Clorox for bleaching, Colgate for whitening, turmeric for coloring
Hiding from the sun, no melanin
Depleting the pigment in their skin
What’s happening
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder
What is the beholder’s definition of beauty and what is he beholding…
Does the beholder need glasses to correct the blurred vision of beauty that he’s seeing
Why tamper with a masterpiece,
God’s creation and in my heart I know he’s pleased,
So why modify the beauty I am to please mere mortal beings.
Category: art
Hate Love
They say me and my girl have a love hate relationship,
But I don’t love hate.
What they don’t appreciate is that my mind she stimulates
And when we get intimate, my fears she decimates
with words like…
I love you.
And I would get poetic and say some shit like
I love you too,
Yes that’s times two,
How do I love you, trying to count the ways,
And I won’t deny that I hate love some days,
And I hate her and some ways
And the tricks love plays,
For each argument a fine my soul pays,
Losing me with each moment that an argument waste,
And I’d hate love,
Not her.
Like the times when she’d get upset because of something I’ll forget,
And for days she’d up and get vex
And I’d hating love and love loses respect
But earns it back in the makeup sex,
A hateful love that’s so simply complex,
While outsiders looking in always get perplexed,
Trying to categories,
And have us marginalized,
Not seeing what I see looking into her eyes,
And so they use stereo types to access our lives
But they need to realize that love isn’t always wise.
Now I hate love.
Because I was seeking perfection,
But fell in love with imperfection knowing love carries its own implications,
Creating impaired vision, while preying on emotions, evoking beep affection.
So yes, I love her.
But hate love for all its sweetly cruel intentions.
Where am I?
Here I am
But is this what I think I am
I’ve faced worse, testing who I am
And I know I can’t run from who I am
Because it’s what I am
That creates the man I am
Do you understand where I am?
Trying to transform the man I am
To be a better man than I am
Looking at the mirror unable to see who I am
Am I as real as I think I am
Or as righteous as I feel I am
My mind’s not where I am
But deep in contemplation as to where I am
While trying to fix the man I am
As I go along, trying to find who, what or where I am
For now I have to resign to being who I am
I salute you…
Girl, when mi see you mi affi fi stand up,
Out of due respect to the goddess before me, I have to rise,usually by surprise, in an instant my temperature rise,
And I must get up, standing hardened, by the rushing blood coursing through my veins,
I salute you
My girl when mi see yu mi affi stand up
Cause it would be embarrassing to sit while standing
And I will remain standing until you exit.
ESquire…@ 2019
Mind
It’s far from their mind
Fathers saying those genes aren’t mine
The jacket was never mine,
so never mind…
Mothers who don’t mind
Daughters saying “is a man mi want to get mine,
Don’t mind if him a never mine”.
Not realising she’s a gold mine,
She has no goals in mind
So she never mind
Giving up peace of mind
For a Sugar daddy,
who’s saying “that piece is mine”.
Son saying “give me a gun to hunt mine”
Education far from the top of mind
Society saying “never mind,
They don’t have strength only bad mind”
No sense coming with nonsense in mind
Destructive thoughts from a destructive mind
They must be out of their mind
Thinking we’re not of sound mind
Watch as I sound mine
Exploding like a landmine,
Talent, I’m going to master min
Show the power of a mastermind
No matter how evil trys to undermine
Never mind,
With thoughts and efforts combine
Seek and ye shall find,
God will give you peace of mind
So never mind,
God knows the devil’s design,
And already have plans in mind
So when they see you rise from the thoughts of your mind
With a different mindset and new thoughts set in mind
Lay out your options so when you change your mind
It’ll Blow their mind,
And never mind.
Esquire @12/2018
Time – The Second
My daughter loved my poem called “Time” from my book “BIRTH“, so she asked me to do one specially for her so I had to write a part 2 – check out “Time” in my book available on Amazon.com.
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My mom told me that time was longer than rope
So I’d use seconds, minutes, hours, days,
Weeks, months , years trying to measure my time
I eventually ran out of rope but couldn’t run out of time
Time after time, I was caught wasting time searching for lost time
Not knowing which was the right time,
As often times I’d find the time but It’d be the wrong time,
Even in class at exam time, I’d fail the tests of time
Then wished I had more time,
And that’s how it goes most times,
But no worries, I’ll catch up with it next time.
You know how much time I spend
Like I knew how to make time
Doing everything times 2, hoping for twice as much time
But still ending up doing them one at a time.
Changed watches daily thinking I’m moving from time to time,
But only ended up with time on my hands.
For my goals I set timelines then tried to cross the line in record time, But half way through I’d time out and take a time check,
Check my timing, paced myself before I time in,
Watching as I realize that I have to be timely,
Knowing how best to use my time wisely.
I remember this one time when it wasn’t the best of time
Nor the worst of time, I was trying to make the most of time
Until eventually there came a time when I realized that I must organize my time,
So I calculated how my time comes and goes using a timetable
Hoping my distribution of time would be manageable
I tried saving time hoping to gain more time from the interest of time,
Started to invest time so I won’t ended up being time less,
But as life has it, we only have limited time so we must act with timeliness if we are to become timeless.
Esquire the Poet @ 2019
Past, Present, Future
Thanks to my exes, my future, my current,
I want to address my past, future and present
Thanks for all the positive and negative that you all represent
The sorries and the worries, the apologies never sent,
Heated words never meant
The time lost in arguments
The irritation of deafening silence
But not to misrepresent,
It was a lesson learnt in the end
Making an ex, but creating a friend
A lesson that shapes the future, learnt from the present
My past will always have a presence
The foundation of future indulgences
One after the other,
the past fading leaving the essence of the matter,
Making me better as I look to another,
New issues, where the past won’t matter,
Contentment and new argument,
Mixing things from the past in the current
Each situation being similarly different
Always filled with excitement,
My present will be gone, just like my past went,
Anticipating on what the future will vent
Hoping I don’t repeat past incidents
Or current accidents,
Looking forward to my present and future with a difference.
Thank you all for these heart changing events.
Birth – My first Book
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