Life Lines

I could tackle the whole world like Atlas, with greasy lips and a full stomach.

Almighty Creator, although I’m not worthy, grant me the peace of awakening within the warmth of all of your splendor.

So what we came to find out, basically, is that life is worth living.

Every picture has the touch of a dream

I've watched the hole petrify pretense, making men fake forever

It's like having a pot dropped over your head and a wooden spoon is pounding the rhythm of the Star-Spangled Banner into your eardrums. You know the tune so well, but you just don't want to hear it.

So take a bow.

Media reports have cultivated the misperception that the casualties of prison officials is a new trend in violence, not a boiling point of failed policies and frustrations.

Love you.

The notice informed them it would be a temporary matter

It still hurts.

Even the best of us will not pass through it unscathed

It was a tear-stained revolution.

The light hurt to look upon. For the briefest moment, I remembered another life. Then it was gone.

"I haven't been outside those walls in 17 years," I told her

Every breath fueled by the underground heartbeat lets a hip hop head know he’s still alive.

A thug, a savage, the truth doesn't live inside of me

If the forecast doesn’t improve, I will surely drown.

You helped me become a man, even without my dad

Overly relying on incarceration as a panacea to crime expresses every weakness of the criminal justice system.