Long Way Home

Posted bySynnika Chizoba LoftonPosted incommunity, mailbox weekly, PoemsTags:, , ,

City streets snake and
swerve toward ordinary
oblivion. Not worried

about the hate and
the hostile stares. Or
the pissed off old man

in a dark pickup truck,
trying to make a quick
exit on Butts Station

Road. Red faced and
angry. I laugh. This is
an ode to balancing

life on an eyelash. To
raising a middle finger
in late May. Summer

winds do their thing.
Got a jones to resist.
To defy is the golden

rule. I smell like jazz
and rage and Shea
butter. Cruising. To

survive these back
roads, I chase a Muse.
God smirks/ smiles.

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Published by Synnika Chizoba Lofton

"Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton is an award winning poet, the president and CEO of Guerrilla Ignition LLC, host of a Nationally Syndicated radio show, and an educator, teaching literature at Chesapeake Bay Academy and English courses at Norfolk State University. Lofton has recorded more than one hundred and fifty CDs, albums, CD-singles, and mixtapes of poetry, including his highly praised debut, The New Breed. He is the author of twelve books and the founder of Riot Speech, a musical genre combining performance poetry with traditional musical forms, such as Rock, Jazz, and Hip Hop. His poems have been published in Experience Reality Magazine, Quay: A Journal of the Arts, UpStreet: A Literary Magazine, and, in 2014, Lofton has been featured in Blind Sided Magazine. He is a regular on Virginian television programs such as The Hampton Roads Show and Chesapeake’s Thinking Out Loud on WCTV. He teaches World Literature, British Literature, and Composition, while touring the country, performing at literary festivals, musical festivals, poetry readings, open mics, concerts, high schools, and colleges."

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