HAPPY FRIDAY

Happy Friday

 

They all came from far and wide

Tired brained and sleepy eyed

From silent taps to tantrum tatters

The office comes alive from whispers to natters

The morning comes so we fill mugs

With coffee or water from watermarked jugs

From weekend blues to that Friday feeling

Here comes the weekend for some down time treatment

Happy Friday!  

 

by Jesse Johnson

If (inspired by Rudyard Kipling)

 

If  (inspired by Rudyard Kipling)

 

If the sky fell today and there was no tomorrow
And I stretched my hands for you, would you follow?
Would you bury hatred? Would you bury sorrow?
Or would you flutter away like the swallows?
We’ve been gifted with today
Yesterday is a memory
Tomorrow is a dream, for which I pray
Give me guidance, hope, and energy

 

If a life time can be lost in words
If the pressure hasn’t taken its turn
If the embers have not died, let them burn
Both loving and hating is absurd
Knave we were, its kept us closed in
If we had cared for their vision
Neither you nor I would have been chosen
I’ve been chasing broke, now I’ve made my decision

 

If you prefer peace of mind give it time
Frustration and animosity comes from talking harsh
Fighting fire with fire and crossing lines
Regurgitating milk, spilt from the past
Tell me, did we really stand a chance
Life isn’t a ball or a bed of roses
We were two left feet and you expected us to dance
Never perfect so you wouldn’t see the poses

 

If it can take a day to defy a whole dynasty
And moments to make a family destroyed
Feel out of touch because there’s no synergy
At the centre there’s a heart of a boy
Break away the bubble wrap
Bring home the pain
Tell them the sun is coming up
After this land has been cleansed with rain

 

By Jesse Johnson

Blank page

Blank Page

Starring at a blank page
Not knowing what will become of it
I see these white washed walls
Innocent youth, eventually crumbling
As I eat the rotten fruit
And wonder how I actually stomach it
I'm trying to chase the light in the world
But the dark ain't having none of it

Discouraging, the way I see you struggle
I see your life and mine
And I'm trying to fit the puzzle
Between mine nine to five
The kitchen, paves and puddles
I'll be trying to draw a line
Between the push and the tugging
And I don't know how we survive

But I hope that Jah provides
Cause I can't seem to find the aisle
That leads me to make decisions
That make you sad or make you smile
Do I ignore the subliminals
Or do I touch the dial?
Do I get a little closer
Or do I remove you from the files?

The rows of my memories
Both the ups and the downs
What could anyone ever say
If I was plugged in the ground?
...The day that I was lost
Was the day I was never found
I'm tryna escape my mind
I'm the fox, it's the hound

by Jesse Johnson

There is Only One You

HThere is Only One You

 

 

I am One
I am a prime
You are one
You are time

The beginning and the end
Happens for you
The journey is what really matters
It depends on you

Because without you
The world is lacking one
One less Father, one less Mother
One less Friend, Daughter or Son

Yesterday is a memory
Today is a gift
Tomorrow is a dream
For which I hope and pray you’ll live

by Jesse Johnson
 

 

 

 

Fish Out of Water

Fish Out of Water 

Trying to get off but the roller coaster won't stop 

Words are emotions when they hit it's like a bombs dropped 

Sinking to solid, I'll be waiting for my ears to pop 

Time spent is gone, got me feeling like I'm lost 

Cause words are just empty promises with no weight 

No action behind lips that move, just a bare face 

Hooked on a string no piranhas just pariahs caught in their gape 

Alt F - 4, tell me what can make me escape…

Its to late, mistakes and complaints 

But they've never thought to think about how they violate 

The things that happen, the motions make the chest drain 

My heart can't on take, the anger gives me chest pain 

So why try find comfort in a bosom or a breast 

Where wisdom is not present, no compassion in their head 

They smile as they sleep, no thirst for their bread 

They know not my reality, they've never seen or heard this red

by Jesse Johnson 

Not A Sonnet

Not A Sonnet

You was the one that said, you'll never let me go
Or was it all an act
I'm not working with all the lies
All I need is all the facts
I'm trying to dress us all in white
Don't try and dress us all in black
Because fickle is not for me
And neither is a heart attack
I'm not trying to fade away with heartache
Just to wait for you to run back
You're half of this one
And I know I may have caused a crack
You're no burden to my life
You belong in my arms, in my grasp upon my lap

by Jesse Johnson

My Wisdom Stems from You

My wisdom stems from you

Thinking bout my time, and ways I cannot waste it

I can see ambition, its about time that I've gained it

Sit the trophy of my life in plain sight and say I've made it

Because the dark tried to claim my life, but look! See! They cannot claim it

Explain this. Who you are? And what lifestyle are you entertaining?

Do you feel cursed by the suns rays? Is your pain washed away when its raining?

Do you try or do you do? Or do you sit melancholy complaining?

Do you crush oppressors doubts, when you're clearly under estimated?

Rearrange things. Know that you'll soon be driving spaceships

Don't be a product of your environment, excuses are for the aimless

My wisdom stems from you, and the experiences from all the ages

Use the fundamental truths; reason, and release yourself from cages

By Jesse Johnson

Persistence will give us our last laugh

Persistence will give us our last laugh

Sometimes I wish the world was paradise so we could all be perfect 
But eyes and minds they speculate and make lives feel worthless 
Love is like a time bomb its  ticks and tocks keep turning 
Until it all errupts, and leaves the owners hurting 

So it's burning, the shrapnel in my chest
When all I could ever dream of is being peaceful in your breast
When being pressed, we are something unbelievable 
Look how far we've come, the world to conquer's still achievable 

Believe the fool, or leave the fool
Salty tears still flow, drown my sorrows in a teary pool
School never ready for me this, heartache wasn't on the curriculum 
My life is topsey turvey, I have lost my equilibrium

Lost the sight of light in the gun show and the fire fight
You're my compass in the wilderness, in a sea of darkness you're my fire flies
So forget the lies, I broke my own heart
Misery won't take away the pain and neither will a new start

So I'd prefer to climb the ladder, and continue on our path
Because the only way is forward, persistence will give us our last laugh

By Jesse Johnson

February 14th

February 14th

A warm hand touched a lonely heart
On my mind all day, that’s why I see your face after dark
And , I know you smile when I smile
Even though we're apart, love's telepathic through miles
No denial, you’re the sweetness in every cherry drop
I'm not just about making the bedrock, I'll make your heart stop...
Start, just like it skipped a beat
Roses and chocolates are cliché, but this me being me
Poetry, floetry just to see them rosy cheeks
To make you blush and grin your teeth
Read listen, listen read...carefully
Valentines Day is one day out of one week
You've got me 365 days, plus infinity

by Jesse Johnson

My sister got married

My sister got married

My sister got married to day
Twenty Eleven october the eighth
So be sure to put it in you diary
Write it down, mark this date
Because we have all witnessed here
Love shared, shown and displayed
Hearts and families bound together
Something that no man may brake

By Jesse Johnson

I live the Circle of Life

I live the Circle of Life
I didn't want to be in their shoes
I was comfortable in mine
I didn't want to preserve the love
I'm not the sort you soak in brine
They always though i had screws loose
But it was never a matter of time
They had done it once before
But it was never consider a crime
Was life really worth all this?
I've learn't to swallow my pride
Finding it hard to see through heavens eyes
Cause I'm human, so the way i decide
And the decisions that I make
Depend on sin, sin provides
I'm human, I'm imperfect
Now theres no need to read inbetween the lines
Stare life in its face
And suss out all the lies
Have to smile once in a while
More often than when I'm high
Jump for joy, grin teeth
More often than I cry
Go to sleep and wake up
And remind myself...I live the Circle of Life

by Jesse Johnson

19

19

I'm 19 today
And it still hasn't sunk in
Drunken words this may be, but I am one King
Been feelling kind of down, scary face Pumpkin
All it takes is a knife and a Steak, and I'm lunching
I denied the grave once, no fronting
the only sueprman is in my boxers, no stunting
I'd rather be in my ralph and a snap back, looking stunning
2 years 1 moth 4 days, and I still got prospects coming
So if grim tries to take ma again, I'll send him running
Had my hood days on the block, bunning
Soldiered life even though i ain't fought for the Queen, gunning
So it's me on the mountain, I've crushed the mole hills
And evey day I wake up, feeling alive feels more real

by Jesse Johnson

Remember

Remember

People leave all the time they say

It’s just another day

And we always seem to think

Can it be another way?

But although you’re gone

You’ll always be in my memory

Distances isn’t a feat to defeat me

So remember that you’ll always be a friend 

Phone calls on rainy days

Email or message me

Life is a journey, we can come and go endlessly

Just remember those who left

And remember what they meant us, to you

And what they meant to me

By Jesse Johnson

Encroach

Encroach

There was nothing that i could do about it
It hurts me to think of her wishing it would stop
Why would someone wanna do that for?
So fowl and fiendish, diabolical and raw

It is poor, rat tat on your door
It would either be the feds or grim with his sickle
The way i see it, its revenge
It'll either be me or you sitting in the pen

And remember this. What happens on the late night
Will get repaid in the broad day bare face
No love no fore play
Have something pointing at your head, like this is a Saw game

But this is serious, you must have been delusional
You mother should be ashamed of you
Wish i find you kill you twice over and shit on your grave
Treat women like women, not how they treated the slaves

by Jesse Johnson

Repent

Repent

(Repent definition, to feel sorry, self-reproachful, or contrite for past conduct ; regret or be conscience-stricken about a past action, attitude, etc.)

I like to get away from the world that we're living in
I see kids killing kids, and me killing kin
And when the end comes, you can't repent your sins
You though your wrong was right, you thought you'd win

But you deceived yourself from the first minute
Acted harsh and abrasive, up until the finish
Black eyes red knives, anger diminished
Murder was the case, but yourself your killing

Violation of innoscence, and your own rights
You only haunt yourself, when you sleep at night
You did the dirt, you took the life
We all know its a facede of pride
Your conscience is the tool, that will make you see the light...

Escape
Repent
Receive life
Live! Not survive

By Jesse Johnson

This is why it hurts

This is why it hurts

See my mind it suffers in silent’s
Suffers from the in directs and the hypement
Hyper mentality of my rightly guarded insanity
So it gets you mad and only comes out when I'm angry b

Cause all the emotion is locked up in a cabernet
Looks are deceiving cause its more like a safe
And every time you get the code wrong
I add another digit and build up your hate

I can see the hope disappear from your face
And you patients turns into impatience
Cause you can no longer wait
Me and you are no longer on the straight

Ups and downs and twists and turns
Lights this house on fire, and lets it burn
Nothings going to change, when anger churns
When are we going to grow up, when will we learn

I can't open up
That’s why the burdens burden all, and it hurts

by Jesse Johnson

Looking

Looking

Looking for words of wisdom
All on a layer of skin
Searching through the depths of my tissue
For the cells that could barely win
All of my imperfection
From all of these molecules comes sin
Trying to figure out the friends and foes it's like I see through tints
So I've got these blurry eyes
My blood vessels filled with the greenest stink
The trees came and freed my mind
Meditation, it's time for me to think
So I'm here looking and searching
Seeing past black white cream yellow grey and pink
I don't judge books by there covers
Cause that just shows that my mind os thin
So I'm patiently waiting
For the day where I can remove my mind from this brink
So I won't be done with my soul searching
My main focus is me that's why I'm looking in

By Jesse Johnson

Dead Comer Alive

Dead Comer Alive

The way you act is like you put me in the cold earth
No life in your eyes, what's your soul worth? 
Yes I'm jealous of yours, mine had no birth
Sometimes you make me wonder why the earth turns
Why my heart still beats? And why my gut churns?
Why you got me feeling wicked? What purpose do your cuts serve?
Love for you long gone, dead ends and no swerves
For change in my heart, I'm dead to you, no nerves

The silence from your tongue, doesn't match your eyes
I can tell you're thinking, and there's to much pride
It's like you put me in limbo, cause the loving died
No kissing, hugging and touching, that's why I'm not inside
But I'm shut out of your cold world, to much to hide?
If only it was that, I can't see you slide
If only you knew and you could read my mind
Then I wouldn't be in this comer of love, you'd be by my side

Moreover, they say that shit happens for a reason
I've always been in bloom, cause I'm not about the season
That's why I stand tall like a tree, life in my stem is what I'm feeling
And I bare fruit, for my poetry to be peeling
Cause my past is out the window, and my hope through the ceiling
And I pray for the thought of me in front of you kneeling 
That's why I'm here, sitting here revealing
To you they made me dead or deaden, and you're my only sense of healing

By Jesse Johnson  

Habits

Habits

Money is on my mind again
I wonder why my pockets are empty
I'm trying to count my blessings
But my blessings haven't been plenty

My luck nearly ran out again
Back to zero, back to the start
I don't want to know what rich is
I just want enough to maintain a heart

So it finished again
Or did it just end prematurely 
But it doesn't matter now
I'll brake old spells, surely

So here I am again
I raise my glass high above my head
As a toast to all these habits
I look forward to good ones, and leave the unfortunate for dead

By Jesse Johnson

Watch this space

Watch this space

I heard Shakespeare say it once 
But I'm far from him 
Trying to touch heaven 
Like I'm far from sin
But forget being sky high
Cause i've got human limbs
But what I wouldn't do 
For the taste of wings
So I can fly up to the seraphs 
And hear the angels sing
Switch all the jewels in the crown
And rearrange the king
Flip coins, save pounds
To gain the bling
And sit at zero miles per hour
And let the haters watch my stainless spin
Dreams are dreams
Don't forget to watch this space I'm in

By Jesse Johnson