We Are Family (Poem)

I wrote this for a conference last year at this organization called Diversity Awareness Initiative for students. I felt it was very appropriate for the occasion and is also appropriate for society today in general.

We Are Family

This is for my brothers, not the regular ode for one specific group

because we are all brothers, just making you realize what's under,

what's under this molded society that beats us like thunder, the

society that makes us all question and wonder but, the answer was

always in front of us.

This is for my Hispanics, my blacks, Asians, whites and all, the world

around us metaphorically making walls between each other so we

dissipate from our success. Although one can achieve great, with team

work we can change the world.

We are all brothers no tricks and tricksters won't forget about my

sisters we are all family. Something hard to grab, but let me open

your eyes make you realize what we all have accomplished.

For instance yes we finally did it, a black president already making a

difference but, just a baby step. We are the future climbing up that

ladder for a more successful world. Remember this. Life is a climb

but, the view is great determination takes us to that place but we

must have patience. Statements like these are just hypothesis and we

are the living experiment of this... The. How... What...why.. How is

what everyone asks ourselves but, forget all that stop and just think.

It is us... We together who will impact the world we live in... We who

make the future. Forget all the negative assumtpions, broken functions

searching for that meaning that something that will lead to

greatness...the key is determination and patience my sisters and

brothers, to uncover our paths that will open a world of great

possibilities. Discrimination is our downfall. Never was really

because of the color of our skin, but always was our insecurities

within. But why be insecure when you can feel at home with your

family. The people around you regardless of their backrounds or skin

color we need to grow again. Through history we have grown through

evolution but, along the way forgot the solution that made us. we

forgot that we came from the same home. We are family. When we work

together we can reach the highest climate whether if it's to go green,

sometimes we hit a bump in the road and categorize us makes us look so

mean, but enough of that we should ressurect our inspiration go team.

Our minds will do many great things but, it is our hearts that are our

crutches.... Our crutches that make us stronger from each mistake. We

simply stop and take a deep breathe. We are family my brothers and

sisters the world is ours just reach out through our chest oh yes this

is for my brothers and sisters. We are family and together we can

change the world.

An expressive moment

Boil my blood, rage running through my veins, so hard to contain this feeling wanting needing almost screaming yelling wishing I was dreaming to wake up from this nightmare. This height scares me because I'm falling so much. I only hope to open my eyes and realize that I'm standing strong, ready for the long mile that is ahead of me.

quote to live by

"Life is a spin, but I grin because at the end of the day I know I'm always going to win"

I feel that life can be truly difficult at times, but one who is persistent and goes through their obstacles with a smile on will inevitably win. One does not even have to technically win as well, just knowing that one puts that sincere effort forth, simply knowing you tried your best is the accomplishment on its own.

When emotions run wild (poem)

Lies and deceit defeats the strongest of powers…even love. What was or is, you did the bid now with live it. So ridiculous how one can assume there is a future for what was never truly there, scared to take the step forward because it’s so dark hoping for a flower that will bloom in the violet of hours but…wasn’t there. Just despair and cries, more lies that felt like a blow to the back, hacked my heart in to thousands of pieces, bleeding me dry, I only ask why…but I don’t even want to know…so…be gone and live your life then. I have many bruises and cuts, they will heal but your burden will live forever. Good luck.

Moments like these

It's moments like these that make me fall in love with dance. Moments where one can just express themselves in a comfortable environment filled with friends, more so a family that is connected by the community of hip hop. I love dance and being able to express myself through it completes me as a person.

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Everyone has their moments...

Alone……cold…..broken….hollow…empty. Alone. This indescribable unbreakable feeling. Eyes swollen bloodshot red, flowing rivers, curled up without control. The tole it takes on you…like your lacking blood in your system…lacking life….lacking…happiness. The feeling of happiness is at the reach of your arms yet knowing you will never be able to obtain it.... never truly at least.

Life is about taking risks

Life is about taking risks. One will never know that the outcome of a choice or action will be without taking risk in life. Would one rather take the risk and take the results as an experience or avoid a possible negative result altogether? In my opinion, I take every opportunity that has the possibility of a positive outcome of course and hope for the best. One will never know if one could’ve succeeded in whatever goal the person could’ve taken. In my eyes, I feel I can never look back on the opportunities put forth in front of me and think what if? I feel more accomplished just making the decision to try my best and thrive for the best outcome. By making the decision to take the extra step, even if the outcome is a loss, I will at least gain the knowledge through experience of how to make a better decision the next time an opportunity of the same criterion is put before me. Life is about taking risk and one does not know how to truly stand up tall before one falls first.

White lies: Necessary or Unnecessary?

My current blog topic will be about white lies. When should one use a white lie, when does a whit lie in fact become a regular more serious lie, and are white lies even necessary. Most people will say white lies are necessary for specific occasions meant to avoid drama or unnecessary conflict with one another. An example of a white lie could be if a girl or guy is on their way to meet their girlfriend or there date (doesn’t really matter which) and on the way they bump in to an old friend of the opposite sex. Now the boy or girl that bumped in to the old friend has no intentions toward their old friend yet, feel the need to simply say to their date that they were running late because of transit or traffic issues. In this case, the white lie was made to avoid conflict with one’s date or significant other simply for the fact that that person might construe what happened. Should this form of white lie be necessary? Should one need to make such a minimal lie? Should the fact make one’s date or significant other have the right to be upset? This is just a minor dilemma with youth and even with older people. In your opinion, what is the right thing to do?

A lot deeper

Okay, so after my last post I thought I might get a little deeper and express a poem that I wrote for a close friend of mine. She is very inspirational to me and I have the upmost respect for her. This is her story.

An inspiring story

Words of a wise man stand strong and never fall....A girl I know lacking the wisdom became the wise one, made decisions some of the bad ones some of the right ones. She spoke things beyond definition of terror but all life all real the deal never sealed but a continuous story... The story of life the reality and gravity of a situation the gothic stages thinking the world is mad at her mad at me but it's just a phase. The plays that people make as chapters of their lives to make fake laughters hoping to capture the essence to feel the presence of meaning but maybe doesn't exist. Sexually molested at the age of nine of all times to confine such youth and corrupt the mind to impact forever to always remember and remind herself of what happened. But no ones laughing, this play of reality casting numerous disgraceful characters. This girl perfect in every aspect but lost searching for the definition the meaning the feeling so demeaning like a nightmare but her eyes are wide open and only seeing what society is capable of. A girl with one of the most beautiful smiles I’ve ever laid eyes on,Her character her thrive beyond others, So you just think and wonder... We the people just a number malleable to society like rubber.Smiles and laughs just a cover what's under and within. Her parents corrupted more than ever such terrible influences hurts to know that she's been through this. Cutting up her insides the consistent and growing internal bleeding, her father cheating on her mother then beating his daughter for the satisfaction of his needing treating his daughter like dirt worth less than a canal street purse, she dealt with this mountain since birth a curse that with knowledge can overcome with a burst with her thrive and thirst for a better life. Eventually sent to a shelter with no one to help her the other would rob her she felt helpless and bothered but always stood strong. Never gave up hope because she knew all along that in the long run she will prosper. Eventually came high school the school of hard knocks place with a new beginning her smile grinning anxious for a new, To be fresh, refreshed take a deep breathe and keep her chin and chest up. She then fell in live. Thinking for just a moment that there might possibly be good on this earth, That there are things of value in her life worth the risk felt like a bird at it's highest climate searching for that paradise praying that she finds it but doesn't. Her new beloved changed for the worse back with the curse because it never left. She starts to tear up takes a deep breathe and deals feeling concealed in a plastic world fighting to break the surface the worlds purpose is only to make us stronger human beings so that we experience not just thought but seeing. The endless black whole engulfing your soul resulting in another successfully corrupted human but not today. She never fell in fact smiles and never tells her story but something to acknowledge and benefit herself with that knowledge and the promise to succeed to progress go to college pays homage to the death and her past and embraces the new and her future where she is the controller, where she knows when to start and when its over. Never let's negativity of the world pass her borders, new as life smiles laughs pure as crystal water. When the world tried to deplete this girl for her purity but yet she smiles with pride and walks with honor, stress floods the lives of everyone if you let it happen so don't bother but take your shoulder and brush, blush at what life brings because it makes people who they are. Live your life, follow your dreams. Be smart never give up no matter if life makes you want to stop breathing. It doesn't matter if you’re fed up so be strong and always keep your head up. Life hits you back from wall to wall but, since the beginning she never gave up, in fact she stood strong without a fall.

My first piece with you all

Okay, so since I can't think much of what to write today I'll just give you all a little sample of my spoken word poetry. Hope you all like it :)

title - Can I have the job?

I want the job. The job for your heart. The art of love the

masterpiece I plan to make you my Sistine chapel, I just want to have

you make you mine, this job one of a kind, so in time I'll prove

myself. I want the job already got myself through the orientation,

showed you my patience, no compensation is necessary, your happiness

is my payment, but Already stated the introductory lines and

statements now on to the work. But for what it's worth I've never felt

this type of feeling, the urge to receive this only verbs can achieve

it so I'll prove it, love can make you do foolish things but in the

long run is worth it, my purpose to make you happy make it my job, I

want this. I need this. I need you. You who differentiate among the

rest, unique in countless ways a fresh breathe, never before until now

am I ready to take the next step. Love what you represent the

challenge given to me much more difficult than the others, the rest

just numbers, not even lovers, all I want to eventually say is I love

her, my job to caress nurture and hug her, bug her for more kisses

because I simply can't get enough work I love this job. You make me

feel both weak and strong at the same time. Weak like a boy with his

first crush strong as you make my muscles tight, this incredible

feeling like penguins love at first sight just feels so right and so

great my other half my soulmate so I need this job. Everytime we meet,

you give me a heart mur mur my heart skips a beat. But it's all just

the beginning already blushing and grinning as if it's my first crush,

I don't mean to rush because this job lasts a lifetime. There's always

a way to that specials persons heart you just need the right rhyme to

get their attention not to mention the hard work. So here I am at your

door step knocking, your heart pounding and rocking just like mine.

You open the door slowly as you turn the door knob, I'm here at your

door step for you forever and always……can I have the job?

As far back as I can remember is the memory of a trip with my parents to Hawaii. I literally must have been no older than three years old and still have glimpses and images that I remember when I look back on the trip. It is somewhat remarkable how one's mind can have the ability to remember such things so many years in the past and at a time where one's brain is never fully developed. I am thankful though for the memory because most memories are something to look back on and cherish along with the memories that are lessons that are there simply to prepare us for the future and the obstacles that will evidently come along.

Stressed

So basically, today it hit me. I have gone one whole entire week without my cell phone. My Iphone at that. At first this didn't bother me much as I tried my best to keep myself active but, today of all days so far, it just hit me. I feel disconnected from the world. Cell phones have naturally become a necessity of the youth today and has grown on me quite tremendously. The Iphone itself, is a mini-computer on it's own. With my Iphone, I'm able to do whatever I please whether it's going on facebook, myspace, twitter, or even to check my emails through the Hofstra Portal. I now feel lacking there of without my Iphone and if this situation is not resolved by the time school returns.....I simply do not know what I am going to do. Sanity is now at it's own whim.

Intro to the beginning

Let me just start off by introducing myself, my name is Jay. I am a very expressive and outgoing person who loves to make the best of life and enjoy each moment to the fullest by being open to every opportunity that comes my way. My hobby is dancing, it simply completes me as a person and has become my outlet for the past five years now. Ever since I started dancing I was given the dance name Jay Flex by which I still go by whenever dance related things come up. I also write poetry every now and then which has become an outlet for me as well. I am a freshmen at Hofstra Uiversity and so far the spring semester has started out quite well for me. Enough for the week. Until the next. Have a good one.

~ Jay Flex