How many ways can I deal with you?
1: Intellectually
2: Spiritually
3: Mentally
4: Emotionally
5: Socially
6: Sensually (through your senses)

6 levels I can explore you adore you
amor tu
speak to your soul through my actions
you are my main attraction
so you’ll always seem coming
I won’t be gone too long
our attraction is strong
like a magnetic pull
not wool over your eyes
honesty, the bridge we can’t walk back and forth on
life is a daily conversation filled with relations
that impact our feelings that we can share
so we can decompress, release stress
and be mentally free
and still show up recharged emotionally


late out night I’ll play music that sings to your sou
while you bathe in water
poured with care

(c) Maurice Taylor
5-1-24

I’m a pathfinder.

I’m human that’s all to it, * may never rise to that spiritual height and if someone does good they are where they are suppose to be, I don’t look to them
like they are special though. I just see them as having gift ai don’t have like i have a gift they don’t have.

I will take some time to learn from them and use what I learn but I won’t follow them because my life’s experience is my own and that gives my spiritual essence its value. Following someone else I love my way and won’t learn what I need to and gain the strength I need so I can over come.

Some people are followers, other are pathfinders, I’m a pathfinder that needs lessons when I get lost or frustrated on my life’s Journey.

Some keys

Each step
full of pain
physical
and
emotional
no prayer
relieved the anxiety
of yesterday
but each step
up
is further away
the bottom of the pit
of despair
a crackle
a pop
in the knees
that
wasn’t there
when I was
younger
much
stronger
with short
vision
a
skewed mission
filled with
derailments
while in the
most
I count my blessings
confessing
to the power
that was listening
Now here I
sit
on the site of this bed
angst over the possibility
of civil war
the hurdles i’m
still trying to clear
the counties oppressed
those stuck in church
out of fear
Each step
full of pain
physical
and
emotional
no prayer
erased the memories
but my actions
decisions
kinda of others
kept me bouyed
when I didn’t believe
Now it’s time
i leave you
Some keys

make friends
cry when you need to
listen to your
butterllies,
anxiety
means you haven’t resolved
your pain
you need to
so you can emotionally gain
don’t go back
create something new
build a community
in the darkest of times
be the devils advocate
and
create hope
and leave these keys
and other you find
for others
in a place
they can find them

(c) 4/18/24 4:50 am
Maurice “Soulfighter” Taylor

Thirst Grind

I don’t care for that rich
i scrap to get mine
From a bottle of water I sip
I wait for no sign

the first breath was all i need
been on go like a steed
oppression on my back
a constant attack

schools heavy on the race
lawyer rejecting my case
Drs ignoring my pain
Massachusetts insane

i don’t puff i ponder
like a first responder
I conquer the lane
observing the lames in the terrains

getting awards for being sellouts
watching negros suffer
we don’t get a bailout
times just get tougher

if you ain’t a prodigy
sucking D’s and bending over
Pick up any Black anthology
and peep the disclosure

dumbfounded that pains compounded
im well rounded and still astounded,
im at the bottom of the totem pole
struggling to complete my goals

though they broken i tug my boot straps
and when they resnap
i apply duck tape
twist a shape

so i can pull em up
before i self destruct
with hard work and a bit of luck
i’ll climb out this social muck

and side step the cluck
that use to be ridicule
form a Black chick by the vestibule
that got overruled

by the propensity
of my consistency
to rattle heads
bald, from, or filled with dreds

we gotta connect
at a common place
where we can reflect
our losses and relate

To the
This Grind


Maurice “Soulfighter” Taylor
(c) 4/14/24