NIGGER I Am

Non-violent Intellectual Granting Graceful Executed Resistance

Nubian Icon God Gave Exhorting Rhetoric

Noble Identity Genesis Genetics Engendered Repopulation

Navigator Inventing Global Gestation Ethnic Resolve   

Niger, Ivory-Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Egypt, Rwanda

No one asked me if I wanted to come

Instead, you kidnapped me and murdered some

Graves for the weak the sea became

God granted life to those that remained

Enslave my body, but not my soul

Reclaiming the identity that slavery stole  

~Moffett~

3Jan 2018

Election

Why should my eyes wail with rivers of tears

While people like me fill the air with cheers

Celebrating a President that looks like me

A feeling that my people are finally free

Could it be that Dr. King’s Dream was really true

Equality and justice for Black people too

Through Non-violence and Black Power, the White House we gain

Yet, floods of hatred, bigotry, and prejudice still rain

Iron chains to prison cells, it’s all the same

Constructional freedom, yet enslaved the brain

Chattel, Contraband, Collateral, contained

Brainwashed identity, Conscience proclaimed

A country divided, birth certificate in hand

Glimmers of Dr. King’s Promised Land

“Your people have made it” un-melanin distain

Is it just slavery by another name                                          ~Moffett~ 3 Jan 2018 

Margret’s Best

Did not the Father sacrifice His Son

That the life of many be saved by One

Can not a mother in love proclaim

The freedom of her children all the same

Tenacity, perseverance, a destiny to keep

Chased like an animal, backs were beat

The road to freedom, was it self-defeat

Could Heaven and peace be the prize to keep

A cross, a knife, cold water you say

Is to great a price for freedom to pay

One for His sheep, wondered astray

The other’s, a mother’s bird's, Emancipation Day

Moffett /1Jan 2018

Just One Prayer Away

Some people sound confident, look strong, and seem to always know what to do or say to encourage others. Some people seem to have it altogether, know where they are going and the path to get there. Some people seem to be in tune with God, can always get a prayer through. Some people seem to have a smile on their face and a positive word to share. What they won't tell you is that they are crying and hurting on the inside. What they won't tell you is that they question their purpose in life. What they won't tell you is that they are just one prayer away from giving up. To that person; God sees you and He hears your prayers so hold on; you may be just one prayer away from deliverance! Just one prayer away!

~Moffett~

FOCUS July 31, 2015

Dentist, vacation, affluence, beguiled

Safari, desert, big game, not wild

Ego, trophy, bragging rights

Ferocious, King, arrow, did bite

Emotions flowing like Niagara Falls

American, Caucasian, standing tall

Disapproval, disfavor, disinclination, displeasure, dislike

Instigate, inflame, inspire, invigorate, impassion, induce, irritate, incite

Exasperated, embittered, enraged, enflamed

Justice for Cecil, America proclaimed

The murder of an animal was the horrific crime

But was not this warranted for the Charleston nine

For: Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson,

 Ethel Lee Lance,Depayne Middleton, 

Clementa C. Pinckney,Tywanza Sanders,

Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 

and Myra Thompson

America why don’t you cry, 

Oh I forgot, you just let your dead chattel lie

Dylann Storm Roof, Burger King deserves

 For an African lion, the world roars

Somebody please tell me who is keeping the score

My beautiful sisters and brothers verses the police you see

In 2014 over 100 killed that look like me

In 2015 more black soul prematurely set free

Names gone forgotten unlike Cecil the lion:

2014

Jeremy Lake, Dontre Hamilton, Justin Griffin, 

Brian Demarcus West,Jameel Harrison, 

Keara Crowder, Jeffrey Ragland, David Mendoza, 

Jerry Brown,Anthony Bartley, Sandy James McCall, 

Dustin Keith Glover, Eldrin Smart,

 Kenneth Christopher Lucas, Ernest Satterwhite, 

Ronald Singleton, Steven IsbySamuel Shields, 

D'Andre Berghardt Jr., Briatay McDuffie, 

Montez Dewayne Hambric,Amir Brooks, Iretha Lilly, 

Dante Parker, Adam Ardett Madison, Michael Ricardo Minor,

Dennis Grigsby, Jerome Dexter Christmas, 

DeAndre Lloyd Starks,Tyree Woodson,Charles Smith,

Andre Milton, Darrien Nathaniel Hunt, Levon Leroy Love,

Matthew Walker, Balantine Mbegbu, Rumain Brisbon, 

Christopher Jones,Arvel Douglas Williams, 

Mark Anthony Blocker, Willie Harden, Latandra Ellington,

Jacorey Calhoun, Cortez Washington, David Yearby, 

Victor White III, Lashano Gilbert,Eric Garner,  

Akai Gurley, Eric Ricks, Cedric Stanley, 

Emanuel Jean-Baptiste,Tyrone Davis, John T. Wilson, 

Willie Sams, Robert Storay, Ezell Ford,Craig J. McKinnis, 

Lavon King,  Eugene Williams, David Andre Scott,

Paul Ray Kemp Jr., Eddie Ray Epperson, Hallis Kinsey, 

Jordan Baker, Treon Johnson, Kaldrick Donald, 

Robert Baltimore, Cameron Tillman, Florence White, 

Vernicia Woodard, DeAngelo Woods, Justin Sullivan,

Michael Brown Jr., Jacqueline Nichols, Briant Paula,

Christopher McCray, Gregory Lewis Towns Jr., 

Juan May, Anesson Joseph,Zikarious Flint, 

Antoine Dominique Hunter, Charles Goodridge, 

Jason Harrison, Wally Flex, Corey Levert Tanner, 

Tamir E. Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Jerame C. Reid,

Ricky Deangelo Hinkle, John H. Crawford III, 

Yvette Smith, Quentin Byrd,Tommy Yancy, 

Rondre Lamar Hornbeak, Emerson Clayton Jr., 

Dominique Franklin Jr.,George V. King, 

Oliver Jarrod Gregoire, and Michael Laray Dozer,

2015

Samuel Dubose, Sandra Bland, Walter Scott, Bernard Moore, Lavall Hall,Jonathan Ryan Paul, Jamie Croom, Terry Garnett Jr., Monique Jenee Deckard,Tony Terrell Robinson Jr., Tyrone Ryerson Lawrence, Naeschylus Vinzant,Andrew Anthony Williams,Dewayne Deshawn Ward Jr., Ledarius Williams,Yvette Henderson, Edward Donnell Bright Sr., Thomas Allen Jr.,Charley Leundeu Keunang, Fednel Rhinvil,Shaquille C.Barrow,Kendre Omari Alston, Brandon Jones, Darrell “Hubbard” Gatewood,Cornelius J. Parker, Ian Sherrod, Jermonte Fletcher, Darin Hutchins,Glenn C. Lewis, Calvon A. Reid, Tiano Meton, Demaris Turner,Isaac Holmes, A’Donte Washington, Terry Price, Stanley Lamar Grant, Askari Roberts,Dewayne Carr, Terrance Moxley, Theodore Johnson, Cedrick Lamont Bishop,Anthony Hill, Terence D. Walke, Janisha Fonville, Phillip Watkins, Anthony Bess,Desmond Luster Sr., James Howard Allen, Natasha McKenna, Herbert HillMarkell Atkins, Kavonda Earl Payton, Rodney Walker, Donte Sowell,Mario A. Jordan, Artago Damon Howard, Andre Larone Murphy Sr.,Marcus Ryan Golden, Brian Pickett, Hashim Hanif Ibn Abdul-Rasheed,Ronald Sneed, Leslie Sapp III, and  Matthew Ajibade

Rally, donate, sponsor, grant

Not for a lion but for man

Is there any hope for Justice

In these horrific things

When the world has focused on the

Jungle king

Text copyright © 2015 Jeffery F. Moffett

New Book

Just published my first e-book on Amazon. Just search, Jeff Moffett on Amazon to find it or click the link below.  The title is: A 31 Day Prayer Devotional, Conversations with God from the war in Afghanistan.

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Just For a Day

If I could be you, oh but for a day

When I am me I would know what to say

If I could be you, oh but for a day

I would know you pain

And who is to blame

For the scars you hid from me

If I could be you, oh but for a day

To see through your eye

To feel with your hands

Then I could be your perfect man

If I could be you, oh but for a day

Hidden buried memories I would replay

If I could be you, oh but for a day

To walk where you have walked

To stand where you have stood

To experience your fears, Oh yes I would

If I could be you, oh but for a day

To love through your heart

To reason with your mind

All the untold secrets that I would find

If I could be you oh but for a day

This is the unanswered prayer that I pray

                                                       ~Moffett~

                                                                          October 2013

I've Been Missing You  

Holding hands, walks in the sand
Conversation over dinner for two
God knows that I love spending time with you

Intimate nights some petty fights
Laughing and dancing the whole night through
God knows that I love spending time with you

Calling to hear your voice of cheer
Enjoying the things that lovers do
God knows that I love spending time with you

Felling like a child when I see you smile
Dressing alike, ...we do that too
God knows that I love spending time with you

Hold you tight every night
The funny thing is, that you don’t have a clue
Just how much I've been missing you

                                                     ~Jeff Moffett~
                                                         Oct 2013

Love / Trust

True love is unconditional which means that you love regardless to what a person does or does not do. Sometime you may even regret the fact that you are in love with someone who mistreats you or takes advantage of you. Trust on the other hand is very conditional; it is earned, it is built, it is developed and is contingent on the actions of the other person. Trust can be lost, rebuilt, it can be partial or complete. Trust is the security-guard of one’s heart; the stronger the trust the more relaxed one becomes with allowing access to their heart. The less trust one has the more guarded and reserved one will be when allowing access to their heart. Trust is the door to who one really is that can be completely open, completely closed, or anywhere in between. True love does not require trust; on the contrary, trust is a by-product of true love.
~m~

Dnalevelc

He sang as though time was endless
We sat, arms folded, our eyes affixed on the clock

He spoke softly from his love of God as he shared mini testimonies with towering conviction
We glanced at one another, appalled and condescending

He fumbled through his notes, his pick in disarray, oblivious to any negativity; he begins another praise
We spoke without words, thoughts contrary to the given message

He sat absent from the world around him completely emerged in devotion, and yet another praise
We clap out of necessity

He proclaims another expression of his thankfulness and gratitude
His, pick, guitar, and voice echo melodies of freedom throughout the room
Our hourglass’s sands of patients filtered from mountain top to the anchors of our intentions

He sings of life, happiness and love as a mother that finds no fault in her helpless child, he shares from his well of hope and faith
We ignore, our cups of acceptance bottoms upward

He continues to pour as though cups not filled, children expecting; song, hymn, praise, worship, contemporary, traditional; angels sing as he leads silenced voices in another song