WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN????

Some days I wake up, ready to take on the world within my own domain...

Other days I wake up and seek to answer the unanswered

All the questions under the cosmos and creation that have been tossed aside as mysteries and conspiracies...Things like...

 * Is it by purpose that my muse is lyrics, tied to a rhythm, coupled with verse and reason?

*Why is it human nature to grow so angry and cold, through situation and circumstance, that all the soul seeks to do is paint portraits of misery upon the souls of others...when its so much easier (and in the realm of good karma) to LOVE?

*How come the one's at the top of the ladder of prestige, with power and wealth, continuously rob those who strive to get there the honest way?

*And can someone please explain to me why after introspection, our minds continuously want us to run away from ourselves, but our soul resists and remains in tact...and in the middle of it all our weakness is exposed and PAIN is endured...all at the cost of growth?

*Then, once we've found LOVE, or gotten in close proximity to it, we attempt to demolish or bail on it, when all we need to do is embrace it as it embraces us...AND why am I a FOOL to LOVE uninhibitedly, and expect the same?

*Why is a LIE more common than the unaltered TRUTH?

*Is it possible for all things to work together unbeknownst to you and me as if we all have a puppet master?...and if there is a puppet master, who is it?

*And why is it that some of the strongest souls to walk the Earth are treated less than human because they played the game of life, got a bad hand, and consequentially lost?

*Who are the Illuminati anyway...and why such secrecy?...You expect us to reveal our souls; our deepest, most authentic, imperfections; our bank accounts and our histories...but we don't even know your names?

*And why are man made religions so significant that its followers have discredited the necessity of personal RELATIONSHIP with a higher being?

*Why do we fight to keep church and state separate, but HATE is accepted and tolerated UNIVERSALLY?

*What happened to PEACE, and why do we go to WAR?

*Why is it that simplicity stimulates my creativity far more than any given source? And the natural is almost UN-natural in reality?...

I've yet to find the answers, but I definitely have not run out of questions...

The one thing I know for sure is that it is essential to QUESTION all things unanswered and left in the dark, OR that which comes to mind and rests within your core consistently...seek to answer those questions...

In doing so, your soul arrives at your individual TRUTHS. With your TRUTH, you provide meaning to the Universe, in your own authentic way...

PEACE

~Sagacious~

I wrote this a while back. I read it today and it still makes me smile. 

"I love you because..."

you have the courage to challenge yourself each day. i love you because you can accept things as they are and you don't try to change people. i love you because you don't play with people' s emotions. you treat everyone with respect. just the way you want to be treated. I love you because you love unconditionally. i love the way you can touch the lives of the people around you, just by being yourself. i love the fact that when all the chips are down, you know how to stand with strength and press forward. i love you because you understand life is not a destination, but an ongoing journey. i love you because you carry yourself with class and sophistication. i love that you arent' immature in your mind and actions. i love that you don't allow other people to sway your composure, for the most part. i love that you know you aren't perfect, but strive for perfection in all that you do. I love that you enjoy mind stimulating conversation. I love your mind. it has so many levels. I love that you are a geek, and don't have a problem admiting so. I love that you can appreciate all walks of love. I love you because you're made up of many things and desire to embrace every part. I love that you love the Lord, and have no problem admitting so. I love that you take pride in your race, your sexuality, your freedoms. i love that you desire to be free in every way and are actively making steps to live in that manner. I love the way you can whisper sweet nothings and make someone smile. I love that you listen with your whole being. I love that you understand the necessity to get to know someone, in order for you to grow. i love knowing that deep inside, you have kept yourself pure and right for that special one. i love that your past doesn't keep you down, but it has built bridges to triumph. i love that you never fell victim to the harsh realities that were put in your path. i love you because you treat each day as a blessing. i love that you value education and the necessity to b a part of the talented tenth. i love knowing that you love life. i love knowing that you are humble enough to appreciate the smaller things, but are strong and wise enough to seek out the greater things life has to offer. i love that you see beyond today and are able to think and plan for your future. i love that you have a large heart. i love that your smile is worth a thousand words and when given freely, it can touch you and bring you joy. i love you when the world doesn't. i love you because you know that you have to love yourself before anyone else can or will. i love that you don't hold grudges, and that you understand life's to short to be angry all the time. i love that you love your family, wholeheartedly an unconditonally, no matter what they may do or say. i love you because your just well, YOU. Thank your for loving me. Thank you for being there when no one else has been there. I write this to myself. Because it never hurts to know, just how much you love the person you look at each day. Cuz if you don't, its not guaranteed any1 else will.

~Sagacious~

Tunnel Vision

Golden complexion, next of kin

Welcome to a new dimension

My universe is bright and gay

Negativity faded away

Positive in every way

Motivated beyond today

Give you reason to envy

Facing jealousy to bleed freely

Captivating your attention

I step to the mic and kill em

Attentively you wait

Sitting at my front gate

Admission price raised proportionately

It will cost you to be entertained by me

What I been through to get to this place

Is something I can't forget, but wanna replace

Turning the negative into the positive

So much of me I gotta give

Finished trying to decipher who

So I entered the cipher for ya'll too

One's who hated me, mistreated me

Kicked me with they heels and raped me

Of the things that were once given freely

Everything in life is costly

Charge it to the game I must

To improve upon this life is tough

Growing stronger on the daily

Thankful for the lessons life gave me

My heart grows larger and colder simultaneously

Through the things placed before me

Being used for my kindness

Misconstrued for weakness

No such thing. It's useless

Fighting a battle alone, truth is

Strength is in the numbers

Rallying troops like a governor

Charging taxes like uncle Sam

Lost in the cipher...damn

So much crosses my mind

Turning the hands of time

Moving forward toward the undiscovered 

So much left to uncover

The show must go on

For the babies I will be strong

The ones lost in the path of life

Downtrodden and full of strife

The child with a swollen belly

The mother who's pot is melting

The father who works hard

To provide but has a broken heart

For those with a dream

That has yet to be seen

They all can live on through me

So as I have a fight left to bring

The morgue is too full of our bodies

Books used to be a hot commodity

There's power within 

But its not given

It must be taken

Don't be mistaken

It's there for you to sort through

Through my words I bring truth

With my mic in hand I got tunnel vision

To rebirth, and uplift my nation,

My Mission

~Sagacious~

At Days End...

All day, my inner voice has been whispering...It's black history month. What do you have to say? I try to address the issues of the time (consciousness) through my words. I wrote something last year around this time...a lot of people may be unfamiliar. So, I decided to share...

BUT first, I must offer you a premise: This work stems from an acknowledgement of self: who I was, who I am, and who I am becoming. In doing so, I become aware of my race and our struggle. It pains me, so much, because we have so much work to do...

That being said, without further ado, my STATE OF THE UNION

It's not enough to know anymore

WE gotta grow, and show we can soar

Sayin its his fault is lame

Its your fault you remain the same

Constantly fighting to be better than before

The ones before us have opened the door

It lies within us to carry on the dream

Sometimes it makes me want to scream

Watching generations behind me come up

Unaware of just how much they're given up

On dreams of yesterday. Shyt is crazy

Tired of hearin, they're just babies

Our tomorrow starts today

Instilling pride in our ancestry is the way

Sharing stories of Marcus Garvey, Douglass,

Fannie Lou Hamer and Chisholm to name a few

Freedom Fighters, Writers, Teachers, even YOU

We owe it to ourselves and our history

To be better than our current society

The woes of the oppressor

Knocking out our predecessor

And all that we've accomplished

I challenge you to acquire knowledge

Removing our history from the books

When's the last time you took a look?

Lynching ourselves daily is sad

Ignorance is bliss, its so bad

No one can better us but WE

Lifting as we climb, promoting unity

WE may have changed, but not enough

Not even close to being freed, its still rough

Remove the blinders and open the mind

Society has shackled us over time

Thought processes breeding negativity

As my soul bleeds positiveness positively

Not fighting alone, but very few in number

What God brings together, Man can't put asunder

There's more of us behind bars

Than there are of us being stars

Institutionalized in our thinking

Caught up in societal teachings

Everything that we've become

Is because of what we've done

Pointing fingers and complaining

Will never evoke positive changing

If you want to be treated better, be better

Pick up a book, sit at the feet of elders

Place it in your mind

That you CANNOT sit on the sidelines

That's not good enough anymore

We had such fire in us before

To fight the good fight for freedom

It seems our passion has grown numb

The urgency to exceed got lost in complacency

Which warrants a dormant necessity

Purge away the need for conformity

Pick up your piece of unity

Join in the fight against powers that be

So that we as a people succeed

In living out those dreams deferred

No longer should they be deterred

We hold these truths to be self evident

We even have a black president!

The time has come for us to empower

We MUST take back the power.

I DARE YOU...

~Sagacious

Some of My Words...

Healed, to be wounded again/Now I sit where paper meets pen/Disgusted to my core/My gut feels so sore/My soul aches with fury/Because I stood before the jury/I've been found guilty/Of trying to love another/Who loved another/But told me it was real/Discussed sealing the deal/But the deal was never unsealed/Before Me. Completely/Leaving me repeatedly/Scorned and Torn at the seam/What it seems was a dream/Turned out to be nothing but a mean/Cycle of revenge. Rebound/Was the identity found/At the end of the journey/Never once has she heard me/Felt me. Seen me. Completely/As I mirrored she/In her mind/Unfortunately as time went by/We said the goodbyes/And all I could do was cry/To try would be a lie/As the heart pumps furiously/Beneath me/Deeply Rooted in the sadness/That's left from the madness/But as I digress/I felt it in my chest/That I was wrong too/In trying to please you?/Repeatedly you told me/All you wanted was me/To exist as we/But without the Nth degree/Of Penalty/You told me. I mirrored she/ So I tried to show you otherwise/But I drove a wedge between you and I/...So I sigh (sigh)/But why? But how?/Now I sit and ponder/Has past tense become present/And once more prevalent/And all that was said to me/With regard to a "new" family/A lie?/When I smile. Cuz I thought it was real/Seeking an appeal is useless/When you've returned to this/Emptiness/Instead I'd rather exist/In my own bliss/Created from within how I exist/As just this/One who's always sought after/Today. Tomorrow. And thereafter./The one to make all others subside/But has forced me to say goodbye/As she says hello to yesterday/And see ya later to tomorrow/Seems I was borrowed/To be returned/And burned.

~Sagacious

Seasons...

Pictured above is a Phoenix. 

For those who don't know, and those who may have forgotten, I have included a link to the Wiki definition of a Phoenix: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology).

In life, we go through moments of death and rebirth. How often do we ACKNOWLEDGE these periods? In acknowledgement, we permit ourselves to grow. We indirectly expose our spirits, we tune in to the universe. We listen to what voice has been placed on Earth solely for us to hear...and we permit space within for that voice to bring about change, or growth.

Once we get to a place within, where recognition of this place...of this TEMPORARY pit stop on the road of LIFE, we can begin to reform and emerge new, so that we can be properly aligned within our purpose in the universe...hmm. PURPOSE..another blog for another day.

As I digress, as humans, we have moments where our lives are aligned to that of the phoenix. Some of us are aware in the moment, some of us are aware thereafter we have risen out of our situation, and some of us don't ever become aware of these moments. My question to you is, where do YOU fall on the spectrum? Do you acknowledge these moments within SELF? 

Self Proclamation: "I owe it to myself to acknowledge my seasons. Its important to the preservation of my foundation and purpose in life"

So, until we meet again, ponder this...

Look back over this blog...re read if necessary. Look at the capitalized words: ACKNOWLEDGE. TEMPORARY. LIFE. PURPOSE. YOU. SELF.

YOU have a predestined purpose in this universe. Solely set aside to be your journey, and only you can take it. However, in order to do so, some things we endure are temporary building blocks within our purpose driven lives. We must acknowledge these moments, and when we do, our paths become a little more permanent, a little sharper. A little more defined, and our steps become a little lighter....Don't let your circumstance control your outcome in the universe. RISE above circumstance and continue to press for the mark...the mark just for you!

Peace & Blessings

~Sagacious