David Anthony Brayboy

Thoughts to My Grandfather I wanted for a long time to take this walk with you inside through my gift of writing. I found that during the years, I had come to realize of how you were in my presence all of my younger life, and yet of how you were taken from me in the most important manner, for the balance inside of myself as well as your own. I never had the mind to venture into the reasons of why there was a disconnection between you and I; however never did I not sense a wanting to be close with you upon a level of the intellect as well as the needed emotional bond to my grandfather. There were many things unsaid and therefore, the silence between us during those times of when a relationship should had been cultivated, was in fact a very loud and yet empty state of being. But, nevertheless I did love you and saw you as a man of great intelligence and humility who I felt was able to fix anything that compromised its function including the family social structure inside of...

It has been long overdue for our community to accept that if there will ever be any type of leader for our plight here in Babylon/America he cannot belong to any religious party of any kind. Considering the condition of our community and as it does not get any better regarding how we are treated in this system of this iron fist rule, a man governed by any religious doctrine rather it is Christianity or Islam will forever be governed/limited by laws within that religion which can only work in favor of our mistreatment in its affect of pacification. He will forever have limitations contaminated inside of his natural will that are stagnant against our present reality. If he is governed and limited, then he is actually upon the side of the oppressor rather he realizes this or not in his lack of incentive in calling for an execution of what he, as the rest of our hearts and minds know will eventually need to be done despite the lose of many lives. We are a warrior people. I...

I often go off to myself and the source of creation that truly has no name. Not to be still, but to be "stilled" by a source of creation that knows my essence far more immensely in-dept than I do. I find that when I still myself, it is not a natural stillness because it was in fact enforced by my own implication and therefore effort and will. Effort if sensitively looked at and felt truly, is a conflicting duality because it is executed by a personal directive will which hold s an objective, an idea. But, to allow yourself to be “stilled” with the love of a truly unknown powerfully gentle source, one will understand the sacredness of this time and the purity of a clarity that is ready to be revealed to the settled mind in which in that moment, has a pleasant quality of humility and innocence. You must no longer question anything that your curiosity is demanding to be satisfied and therefore fulfilled, because those personal unanswered questions...

Internal Blood Suckers In many times, we tend to wonder of what we can do to deal with the evils that are impacted upon our minds and hearts, when what or who that you yourself deemed as close to you, is enabled to be used for the attack itself. You find yourself, even in your innocence of someone else cold, low down and unprovoked evil against your person, still trying to communicate to get along when you know, as well as always being a victim plenty times of having the reality of being revealed again, that no matter of what you do to show love and kindness, simplicity, good mannerism and concern, there is a determination rooted in a vile and vicious evil and cultivated tension that is being filtered within your environment including your seeds, that you will never be respected nor accepted as a human being as long as there is that evil presence that has forever, not only meant you any decency or goodness, but anyone else who are cursed to come into their presence throu...