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[elredje5ter]

After midnight

Watching restrictions become bubbles of building greatness. Echoes of doubt turn to shouts of motivation. Remembering every sound while it rips light through darkness. Screaming casual statements as a reiteration of self worth in shadows far greater than the corners they once held you in.

It’s become quite clear that no one comes near the bars you reach for. I’ll leap while you just watch. Stars form lines guiding these mixed directionals. Maybe I’m a professional.

L.Redd

[elredje5ter]

This seats taken

The difference between you and I.

Outward coward internal inferno.

Constantly waiting for who might be daring.

Thousand miles an hour these thoughts rip through the air like a million initiations provoked with pedestals knocked over by intentions intent on cravings which poke-

Poking for emotions I shy from but entertain me while I dodge them.

L.Redd

[elredje5ter]

Got a chance to meet and perform with author Jordan Freels the other night. As per usual, when I dig an artist I always support so I grabbed a copy of her newest project and the format made this read feel as though I was flipping through the pages of my own story.

Fantastic storyline, super insightful when relating my life experiences and you can see an evolution in the context. Found myself anticipating every next chapter. I actually read this in one sitting (if you don’t count the times I had to let my dog in and out of the house that is..)

Highly recommend this work to all walks of life. Hard copies available as well as digital. If you’d like to learn more or see more check out Jordansjargon.com

[elredje5ter]

Fuck You.

The process to becoming a citizen or legally entering the US is not easy. It’s not as simple as scheduling an appointment. Some people don’t have the access or means to these resources because of their living conditions. These issues have been long running this is true and it’s not Trump V. Obama it’s the World V. The US. I wish all the party pointers and label slingers would get a grip on that overall truth. Process is necessary and yeah there are a ton of undocumented people and there is no overnight cure. Some of these families are well aware of every risk they take coming here and if half of the people already in this nation were that willing in their own lives imagine what we really could have here as a country. So many Americans are so entitled and ignorant at the same time. And not even in the way of trying to be offensive but literally ignorant to the censorship we have. But we also have power as a first world and with access to all forms of media and therefore we have a duty to be an improved race. Across the board. And we should want to be an improved race. Isolation and exclusion, discrimination, categorization. That is all I hear. This isn’t just about Mexico and what’s happening with them at the boarder. They’re just representing a current situation of an ongoing battle. What’s happening to them in the news right now has been happening for generations and to all sorts of races who have come here in masses.

[elredje5ter]

Filtering Grains of Sand

Wondering if the day would ever come where you’d come back.

Wondered where in this world you were and would you ever notice the you in me crossing the street sitting quite lonely

Cause somewhere along the line I grew blind to common traits

In the hands of a saint biological restraints became a faint contribution to bonds so strong I don’t think I’d trade them for anything else.

You left room for someone new to do what you couldn’t

But you also left a never ending desire to be loved and accepted.

It’s a double edge sword one I haven’t quite learned how to swing yet.

Deep inside my own head where it’s safe somewhere in the middle of opposition and inquiring methods to make decisions.

I don’t even want to be what I am let alone fit the frame of outer demand.

I guess as long as I understand everything I want to have I can and every loss is the plan then I suppose somehow I’ll make this work one day at a time.

L.Redd

[elredje5ter]

Age of revolution

Over the years I’ve stepped out of restraints.

Every corner I turn leads to another box,

A rat race to a man made maze.

Dead ends intended to test the pace of decline.

But there’s a savage inside, built on the frame of untamed barbarian.

Molded in a way of never ending change.

The millennial leads the way

To pioneer through caves;

Lighting the way.

L.Redd

[elredje5ter]

Now

Something happens when you realize you're not just here for the now.

When you can project what you want and work towards it without holding onto small details you'll soon forget.

It creates greatness that is promised.

Living in the moment and doing this "right now" are two completely diffferent mindsets.

Both can coexist, but only one can drag you down.

-L.Redd

[elredje5ter]

If you ever wonder why

I am no longer burdened with the unanswered cries of how some dark soul could block the way of my inner light.

I am no longer bitter about why my efforts held no substance next to their ever so careless and dismissed attempt to exist in the presence of a relationship.

I have learned to forgive myself for harboring faults and molding them into mine.

I have learned to test my boundaries by forcing my reach for love to stretch deeper than my interconnecting cross roads and bridges and straight into the forest of your soul.

Here, I'm surrounded by unknown.

Here, I am awed by the resilience.

The complex artistry.

Each previous encounter weaves through the thicket of internal milestones.

And there is beauty.

Delicate.

Intricate.

A labyrinth of growth.

And I just want to be lost in it.

-L.Redd