Psalms of the Streets
Volume I
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Dark days and cold nights, this is the simile of my life. Hard loses and easy wins; wondering if the sorrow has come to an end or just began. A tight mind and a loose heart, causing pain to constantly stay with me. Withered hope and growing faith, the interrogation of what other eyes see. A battering conscious and loving soul, has me praying to escape to solitaire. The presence of death and the knowledge of life, that use to absorb suicidal thoughts but now just mental strife. Compassionate fear and fear of compassion; causing me to understand not the meaning of love. Helpful embraces with retained content; reason for truly seeking to understand the keeper above. Deep questioning and shallow remarks; understanding the way things really are. Past sorrow and future pain, bringing confusion and turmoil to the brain. Physical bruises that mentally hurt, leaving the senses yet clinching the dirt. Helpful enemies and devious friends, got me asking who is really there for me. Society’s pleasure and family’s scorn; got me asking is this the way life is suppose to be. Threatening happiness and wanting remorse, from relations that were hard to bare. Changing actions with stable thoughts, that determines what should and what shouldn’t be sought.
The Battlefield
The pursuit of liberty, happiness
and justice
Is a battle alone in its self
Warring against prejudice and inequality
But never to raise a hand over fame or wealth
Projecting projectiles of mental force
Towards the mind of my oppressors
In determination to evade and prevail their mentality
Excepting the reality that nothing really matters
The street is the battlefield
And knowledge is the ammunition
Camouflaged with smiles and proper conversations
While learning the weak points of the opposition
Military minded and spirited
Learning tactics and survival skills
Digging trenches deep into my conscious
Conquering thoughts of deception and ill will
Because we are the battlefield!
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About the Book
As the world collides with anger,
hate and rage there stands only a few that can look at the world through
different eyes. Individuals with the
insight to look deep into the situation and discover hidden truths that others
would never think to look. In this book
the life of those that rarely get the chance to express themselves
as seen through the eyes of one of those misbegotten. He reveals the world as what he has seen and
experienced in his twenty-years of living.
He starts from his earliest memories of first being introduced to the
streets and on to his latest struggles and hopeless obligations that threat him
to continue to keep faith. He goes deep
into the root of emotional spirituality to uncover secrets about himself and
others such as in his poems Heaven’s Not
Hard To Find and True Understanding. He
states, and I quote, “My aim is not to sell my books solely for profit, but to
let those like me know that they are not alone.” He has won two poetic certificates from the
International Library of Poetry and one certificate of recognition from the
National Campaign for Tolerance.
Nathaniel Lotharious Dixon has been found to
be a very inspired yet challenged young man who keeps his mind open to all
types and forms of information in order to self-improve himself a step each
day.
About the Author
Nathaniel Dixon is a young man
who has had his share of mistakes and sorrow.
This plus his strong relationship with God causes him to be unique in
his own time. He excelled in school with
A+ averages until he reached High School, when his whole life made a 360 degree
turn and he found himself working at age fourteen. Things didn’t let up on him from then on and
till this day continues to work to one day support those who wasn’t given the
same opportunities that he had even though they were few. He discovered poetry and it became his vent
of anger and pain giving him another view on life and reality.