My Voice – Page 2 – Kory McClary's Blog

The Chosen One

What does it mean to be the chosen one? It means to lead everyone from the darkness into the light. The chosen one is the light, the light that leads the way on the path that we shall follow. The chosen one is the strength, strength for the weak, and the depth for the shallow.Continue reading “The Chosen One”

Still No You

Lost in a reverie of years long gone…There you were…Flowing, lilting and litheSeeming ubiquitous, transcendental, blowingin the breezeThere you were… titillating my visionyour beauty, unending, rapturing, amaranthineYou were mine!..There you were, and here I amWhere are you?I open my eyes and still no youHere I am yearning for you, I’m missing you Lost in aContinue reading “Still No You”

What Happened?!?!?

I got a chip on my shoulder,the size of the Golden Nugget…In A.C.!Fuck the judge…I’m going get free!Like a bird.Word to Slim, Mike, Steph, Freaky,and Scrillz…Death is real!This cell is realler!Countdown ’til my deathOne hundred and thirty years…who’s left?Not a soul!When I go,wrap me in a sheet,scribbled with my word,My shit is deep!Deeper than thisContinue reading “What Happened?!?!?”

Fatally Her Pt 9

Cold as the cold in the winter. She was cold as the cold in December. Ice heart, white mink, white gold, white Max Mara stilettos, white beret. She was the white plague… A slow death! He walked up and asked her, “what’s your name?” “Snow,” she said it low. “I didn’t hear you.” “You weren’tContinue reading “Fatally Her Pt 9”

I am

I AmWith those whom I am housed, I do not love.With those who keep me guard, I have no quarrel.For those who serve me unjust, I do not hate.Though I long for freedom this cell maybe my fate!A traveling man with no destination, my luggage is the world’s weight.Though I sin, am I not human?MadeContinue reading “I am”

Mississippi GodDam!!!

Political captive from the motherland… Shipped to Virginia. I ran and got hound! Mississippi GodDam!… Nina Simone!.. They shot off my Pharaoh’s nose, Stole Cleopatra’s throne. Wisconsin GodDam! They shot me in my motha fuckin’ back! Where’s the justice at!? Ain’t no help for a nigga like myself. Shackled, whipped, and hung! Where’s my gun?Continue reading “Mississippi GodDam!!!”

I Rise Still

Even after all of the transgression and oppressionAgainst people of my complexionStanding tall with a pen as my weaponI’m going down writing!!!I will not be silenced – By this system of recondite violence I Rise Still Through this concrete and steel, I will assure that my word isheardThroughout this worldMy pen will write, until IContinue reading “I Rise Still”

I Cry When I Sleep

I didn’t know you can cry in ya’ sleepTill I woke up with tears in my eyesWhat the fuck is going on?Real niggas don’t cryTake this shit like a man…Head up … Chest out…!I’m a man!But still, I woke with tears in my eyesI thought that after all the bullshitI’ve been throughI could no longerContinue reading “I Cry When I Sleep”

I CAN’T BREATHE!!

Everyone take a kneeThe black national anthem plays in the backgroundLift Every voice…They did it again…Knee in his neck, This a modern day lynching!We can’t win,We suffocating in discrimination,Protesting, and demonstrating.Black skin, approached by the police leads to death, or prison…It seems like we ain’t gaining nothing,They did it again!!!A nigga can’t breathe in thisContinue reading “I CAN’T BREATHE!!”

GIVE ME BACK MY VOICE PART2

Fuck it! I’m still trekking through the jungle of bullshit, in search of the transcripts to MY TRIAL. I’m looking for that hidden treasure, and I won’t stop until I find it.I Feel like my voice has been taken. like so many other brothers incarcerated by injustice. So I write and speak wit ink. IContinue reading “GIVE ME BACK MY VOICE PART2”