Memory Lane Poem by Laquory Jones

Memory Lane



Verse 1:
As I'm walking down the sky-line
I see these clouds smiling back
I admit I tend to keep everything
Locked inside my internal self
So nothing leaks outside
My external shell
Where the thoughts tends to dwell
Lately its felt as if I'm running circles
Throughout life with emotions
Turned on high just wild emotions that
Becomes transcendent throughout time
What's happening inside my mind?

Verse 2:
When I contemplate these things I write
So much pain always comes at a price
What we give up and sacrifice
I had one friend lose his life
So many times I would have to walk home at
Night my mom would ask me ' Why I would
Carry knives'? Because a good friend
Of Mine had died someone shot him up twice
Out of mind and out of sight
That's the way people are living life
The pain still hits me ripe
Tugging at my heart strings tight
Just about every night
While I'm gazing at the moon-light


Verse 3:
Oh Richie why would they hurt him?
I'm not sure I couldn't tell you
Perhaps over rolling quarters
Cold case now ruled a suicide
While his mom yells out 'Bloody Murder'
I lost my job and I'm emotionally wrecked
At night just thinking about his death
Wondering if I myself have been sent
Here for a purpose its been hard
Finding a cause and standing up against the
Norms as I sit and struggle through a
Country that's half torn
People becoming heated because
They've felt they're on the receiving
End of a dual edge wielding sword
Where there's no win win
Just an heavily amount of people scorned


Verse 4:
So many things that we have to digest
People left in Afghanistan
So tell me what happens next?
So many countries are trying to flex
Wanting to come for our necks
People causing riots within our home
Country constantly perplexed
Conflicted at best as we fight our own
Internal wars nothing has changed
It's getting worse than before
It's as if people had forgotten
What we stood and fought for
As we become more misunderstood
While they argue it's for our greater good


Verse 5:
Now states are making laws that we can't
Even abide by and enforce
Where are our freedoms and a women's choice?
I haven't yet heard a voice
Take a stand be a man but no one truly
Has a plan not sure if outsiders truly
Understands the complexities and the
Extent of this abortion bill that they dubbed the
'Texas Heartbeat Act' no abortion until after six
Weeks and doctor appointments are
Going to be booked after seven
Where's the pagans and the reverends
Catholics and new legislation
Let me guess no litigations
Yes Richie that's what they're saying

Bridge:
So what happens if Susan's in an Uber
Giving labor and Karen's thinking she's
headed to a clinic to get a procedure
'Well Richie' Hold up let me finish
I'm beginning to see our freedoms already
Be diminished 'really' well it has started
Already with the women just stating
My inner intuition and this all happened
Around the time in August No September
No hold on wait I remembered

Chorus:
It was August no September
I remember it was in deep November
In the midst of a bitter winter in December
Autumn leaves with raging rivers
Internal spines begins to shiver
Break open for me a smile
Haven't seen you do it in a while
Turn that frown upside down
Richie let us take that walk across the
Town you know that bitterness has
Never been your style
Let's go that extra mile
So tell me how it all went down

Monday, September 6, 2021
Topic(s) of this poem: life
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