Midnight's Shadow

Do You Remember?

 

  I can remember a day not too long in the past

  When I found myself reminiscing as I looked through the glass

  Of that lingerie store where you and I first met

  I was buying a present for my fiancé and you suggested something in fishnet

  As a joke this you spoke and made me aware of your presence

  From the very first glance I knew I had to have your essence

  But I was involved and the ring on your finger said you were too

  Still our eyes started a conversation about what we really wanted to do

  Now I`m sitting here with dejá vu

  Because I see someone that looks just like you in the store once more

  I glance up at the heavens for granting me exactly what I asked for

  Another chance to lay you down in front of a sweltering fire

  Consummating years of building passion and desire

  So I catch you just as you exit the place

  And I`m loving the look of surprise at seeing me on your face

  We hug and greet as old friends

  You know, what`s been up and how have you been?

  I, not being one to let opportunity leave me once again,

  Express that maybe we could catch up with dinner at my place around 10.

  Your eyes sparkle and your lips smile at the thought of our reunion

  My mind is wild with thoughts of our first chance at union

  Dinner comes as a three-course meal of salad, lobster, and veil

  With a candlelit backdrop to lick the romantic seal

  And to close the deal I prepare desert

  Close your eyes for a surprise I say with a slight smirk

  They say that a massage helps food to better digest

  You agree by telling me to shut up and get undressed

  What follows cannot be simply explained as a night of passionate exploration

  I’m not Whitney or Angela because I feel a need for exhalation

  There is no logical explanation for how, together in my bed we have come to be

  Just as there were no words said about if we were equally freaky

  I can still vividly see you grinding on top of me in that sexy black thong

  And hear our moans of pleasure melding to become the sweetest love song

  There ain`t nothing wrong, isn`t that what R. Kelly would say

  About you and I rehearsing the love scenes in Acts I-III of this erotic play

  After foreplay, twelve play, and sex play a new day peaks through the curtains

  I`m more than certain that for the rest of the day I will be hurting

  From physical contortions that could make a yoga guru green with envy

  But unfortunately you say you have to once again leave me

  To return to him; your real life, your real love, your real boo

  Now I know ain`t nothing true about dejá vu.

  Death of a Playa

  I`m above criticism

  But not egotism

  Cuz I got triple testosterone

  And 6 cell phones

  The friends, the Benz, the ends

  But no home

  Well...

  I got a house...

  More like a bachelor pad

  And a few kids call me Dad

  But like last years fads

  I give ‘em to goodwill

  When they knock on my window-seal

  Still...

  I feel like I needs mo...

  Ya know?

  Mo dough, mo clothes, mo ho`s

  And I gots to keep my wrists froze

  Diamonds and dolla dolla bills ya`ll

  What?

  Why you lookin at me funny?

  Cuz I`m all about my money?

  You thinkin bout tryin to take my honey?

  Like Winnie the Pooh...

  Or maybe Snoop?

  Shoop, Shoop...

  That`s what I tell all ya`ll ladies waitin to exhale

  Cuz I`m waitin to impale

  And impose like only pro`s can

  See...ain`t it so good to find a hard man

  With big hands

  But all that can wait, right now I`ve got to tend to my fans

  Besides...

  You know I`m lookin out for da man

  You know...DA MAN!

  The IRS and Uncle Sam...damn they want my grands

  And them child support payments are ruinin my plans

  That`s why I asked you to stash the grams

  And the gat, plus the phat sack

  Cuz them bustas can`t axe what they can`t tax

  Fuck that!

  I ain`t confessin to nuthin, I just wanna ball till I fall

  I came up from Miami in a Grand Cherokee standin tall

  Now I`m goin back to Cali

  To lay up in the valley and check out them hard bodies made by Balleys

  Sip on some Baileys while I smoke on some Bay leaves

  Bitch Please...

  I`m the playa of the year, so what`s all that you whisperin in my ear

  Bout my foul lifestyle and the gold in my smile

  The kid ain`t mine, chil`, just like MJ

  What`s that you say?

  Watch out for aids...girl I got a better chance of gettin sprayed

  What you think the platinum and diamond crucifix is fo` you think playas don`t pray?

  Shit you can hate me all day, but that ain`t gonna make my shine go away

  So just let a playa play and I`ll holla later

  Come on boo, put the gun away, you got me shakin in my gater`s

  Damn baby, don`t be a hater, just cuz I hit it and forgot to call after

  You don`t got to shoot a nigga, we can live happily ever-after

  I ain`t above sharin all this stuff that I got

  Let`s stay together forever and make them cold nights hot

  What? Have I been takin my shots? What the hell you talkin bout?

  Oh! That shot.

  Damn boo, I had my doubts

  About if you`d do it or not, I guess the past catches up

  Hey...one last request...bartender can you pass me that cup

  Of Hennessey, damn, now I can barely see anything

  All I felt was a sharp sting and now I`m feeling nothing

  And now I`m feeling nothing

  And now I`m feeling nothing...

  This was the story of a playa who died collecting things

  He collected cars, clothes,and women like trees collect age rings

  Chasin these things he gave up his rights to the throne as a black king

  And on his tombstone they wrote, "He died for the bling-bling."

  Between the Sheets

  She makes my dreams wet with promises whispered until I awake

  Sweating from a sauna of lucid lullabies lingering between the sheets

  I long to meet my midnight mistress

  So I leave lilac scented love letters underneath my pillow

  Hoping she will show up and read my mind

  Divine is the connection that I feel for her

  She is the perspiration of inspiration

  Dripping all over my mentality

  Reality is a white winged horse

  Riding through constellations of masturbation

  She comes to me as night evaporates into light

  Tanning me with ultraviolet lingual rays

  But she never stays long enough for me to see her

  Through the trapdoor of my every fantasy

  I fall for her as I change colors from green to orange to red

  My bed is the African bush

  And she is the fleet gazelle running rampant over my imagination

  I long to become a cheetah but I am only cheating myself

  Fooling myself that one day we will lie together on cumulus clouds

  She becoming lightning and I the thunder chasing her

  Making her ponder the wondrous sensations o
f earthquakes rocking her inner caves

  My behavior is savage as I hunt and gather waterfalls to wash away her inhibitions

  I long to open her as she envelopes me in a rainbow of exploration

  We will join and become as comets chasing one another through the universe

  We will orgasm through atmospheres for seventy-five years at a time

  Then rest to give birth to new stars

  Then start all over again until we reach the beginning of time

  At the end of space we will face each other’s fears and cleanse our celestial bodies

  Of all impurity and uncertainty as we become closer than one

  Closer than the molecules that created the sun we will join

  And stimulate the evolution of eroticism as dreams become tangible

  We will dance the tango with my tongue leading hers across eternity

  In a perpetual kiss we rise above love

  Becoming the mist of midnight rendezvous evaporating into the sunrise

 

  Veteran

  Better men than me have died playin this wargame

  So I guess I must have better aim

  Or better luck when it comes to plucking ripe birds out of the sky

  With the right words I`ve swerved through more lanes than the Jersey Turnpike

  But I always buckle up when I saddle in

  See I been around the world and

  I, I, I haven`t got a mortal wound yet

  But I do got many a scar

  And I`ve scarred more than a few

  Plus I lost my crew back in the jungle rumblin with some Amazons

  They called me the don when I became a made man

  A mad man sprayin anything worthy that struts my way

  But today is the first day of the rest of my life

  Because I`ve quit being trife with the mandingo rifle

  Shooting wifeys between they knees

  Until they beg me to pleeze never stop

  And when the cops come knockin

  Lookin for the larcenous lust mercenary

  I`m out like the pussy fairy

  Because I was never really there

  I never really cared who I victimized

  Then I started having visions of babies with eyes like mine

  Reminding me of my war crimes

  Time and time again I was sent in to do my mission and get the hell out

  But these days I`m about more than just runnin and gunnin

  Somethin brought about a change in me

  Some sniper stalkin me in a tree

  Shot me in the heart with a poisonous love dart

  And I started appreciating art and writing poetry in my weekly letters

  Like I said better men than me have died playin this wargame

  But I left this game with my name heart and soul intact

  And the impact of Cupid catching me slippin

  Is that I fell victim to my own ego

  I watched She go far away from me

  Sayin she can`t stand me

  I can`t stand me neither

  Cuz I can`t even stand

  See I lost my heart recently

  Now I`m just another veteran

  After Thought

 

  You know you left me a mess when you just got up, got dressed

  After you were finished with my sex

  After you proved you were the best in my Rolodex

  And rolled out in that Lex

  You know you left me missing you when you licked me goodbye

  After on each other we got high

  After you felt so good I wanted to cry

  And in that moment of ecstasy could have happily died

  You know you left me feenin like a damn crack head

  After you handcuffed me to the bed

  After all the nasty, freaky things we did

  And I love you our bodies said

  You know you left me wondering when I would see you once more

  After all the champagne we did pour

  After you found your way into my core

  And then ran for the door

  You know you left me wondering why you said no

  After I knelt in front of you with my head bowed low

  After you looked inside the velvet box with the bright red bow

  And said you couldn’t make a husband out of a gigolo.

  mic check…qwantu, qwantu (1,2…1,2)

  Qwantu Amaru has been writing since the age of 11. An avid reader, he has always aspired to write suspenseful page turners and socially significant literature like those of his writing influences Richard Wright, Harper Lee, Walter Mosley, Tananarive Due and Stephen King. Qwantu draws his inspiration from his modest upbringing in small towns and cities across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Louisiana, and Florida.

  In addition to his first novel, ONE BLOOD (available: October 2011), Qwantu has written and published six volumes of poetry: Lightbringer, Lovelost, After the Storm, Midnight's Shadow, Awakening, and Actual-Eyez. Qwantu is an active member of the outstanding socially active poetry collective Black on Black Rhyme out of Tallahassee, FL. He has performed spoken word in poetry venues from New York to Los Angeles. He is also part owner and one third of The Pantheon Collective, an independent publishing venture dedicated to bringing high quality independent books to the masses while empowering and inspiring other authors to follow their dreams. For more information visit his website www.qwantuamaru.com or e-mail him at [email protected]

  Qwantu currently resides in Jersey City, NJ.

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