Sum_of_Man

Posted bySynnika Alek-Chizoba LoftonPosted inmailbox weekly, PoemsTags:, , ,

Ease into morning. Stealth-like.
A Robert Glasper melody establishing
a new beginning. The day yawns,

stretches, and turns the key. Ignite
the motivation to live freely. This
day-to-day thing takes a certain

mastery, a skill, a relentless step
along shifting concrete to navigate
empire. The cracks are deadly.

Politicians flash sinister smiles.
I carefully examine my face. Age
settles, like a fierce Raven. Fire

behind the eyes sparks a Newport
or a Black and Mild, talking about
that strange noise, like Old Salt

and Pepper, hanging out near 7-11
on Baker Road. Surviving the program
seems to be the everyday goal,

crafting an exit route or the one-
way flight plan. Gray hairs find homes,
silver linings painting pictures,

offering hopes. Mr. James Allen
says “A man is literally what he
thinks, his character being the

complete sum of all his thoughts.”
He jingled the keys to the lazy days
of grit and upside-down smiles.

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Published by Synnika Alek-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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