He’s Become Me and I Him

December 9, 2015 ~ Robin Estevez ~ Leave a comment

Just like dad

I’m mimicking his footsteps

Out before sun up

Back after sun down

They lay asleep

Kisses and a prayer for each

As I promise a better tomorrow

Just like me

I hear him speak

“Papi what time did you get home last night?”

Stopped in my tracks, I pick him up into my arms and see me

Kisses and hugs is all I have to give

Remembering that’s what I got

Just like now

He looks back

Sees his sons on the same track

Hustling and moving

Taking one step back

Seeing into the future

As he looks into the past

Connecting the dots

One by one

Like a celestial constellation that tells a story of

What was, what is, and what is to be

2015-12-09

He Knows the Path

December 5, 2015December 5, 2015 ~ Robin Estevez ~ Leave a comment

My heart is sad

Filled with pain

After seeing so much

What have I gained?

Hurt and hope mixed together

Both intertwined

Wrapped up

I choke up

My heart beat

Beating faster and faster

Not knowing what is or what is to come

I struggle to catch my breath

I pause to B-R-E-A-T-H-E

Filling my lungs with life

Closing my eyes my soul, breathes

Refreshed with what is and

The pain subsides

Because God is my guide

Leading the way as always

I take His hand and breathe

Knowing that in Him the truth lies

2015-12-04

They Make a Difference

October 7, 2015October 7, 2015 ~ Robin Estevez ~ Leave a comment

Give them the strength to believe in themselves

To understanding that failure is just part of the process and failing successfully is an art

Let them climb as high as they can because they can

Harder still let them fall, scrape their knees, get up and give it another go

Go further for them

Believe in them

Show them there are no limits to your love and what they will do

Let them believe that they can and they will

Vision Over Desires

October 6, 2015 ~ Robin Estevez ~ Leave a comment

Making it a point To make it
Creating a vision

That’s greater than my desires

Maintaining prescision over my decisions

Keep the ego in check

I want to soar higher

Making my vision greater than my desires
You can want what you want

But nothing going to be given

Papi told me when I was just a kid

No ones going to take a dollar out of his pocket to give it to you

So I’m putting in the work

Stay on my hustle

Keeping faithful to my vision

Leaving a Better Place

October 5, 2015 ~ Robin Estevez ~ 3 Comments

What do you have to release from your grasp now?

In order to make room for what is to come

Moving you past your past

Stepping up into a future that’s bigger

You figured out

How the work of the present

Presents you with presents

To hand off to those who are present

Knowing that the powers within you

To create, mold, and disrupt

Getting your hands dirty, clean

You’re battle scarred, experienced

Standing tall, righteous

Stepping firm, confident

All the while

Becoming the change you want to see in the world

People watching

April 11, 2015April 5, 2015 ~ Robin Estevez ~ Leave a comment

Pretty toes

Concealing clothes

What I wouldn’t give to see what your reading, “Soul Prints”

I’m curious to know what you know

Silky white pants with open cuffs

Knit sleeveless sweater

With eyes framed in wire glasses

Leather briefcase hanging form your shoulder

Black sandals accentuate your toes

Colored in cream, Mmmm

Peaches and cream

As I watched Bella sleeping…

April 10, 2015April 7, 2015 ~ Robin Estevez ~ 1 Comment

My princess she is sleeping

Deep in slumber

Dreaming of Prince Charming

The 7 dwarfs and Diego

Thoughts so pure

Conscious so light

She floats

Above us above the world

Like an angel

Carried on a cloud above the rest

She rests

Snuggled

Lost in a dream

Where life is what it is supposed to be

Quiet beautiful loving nurturing

She will awake to our world

Quietly beautiful loving nurturing

Laundry comes to mind

April 9, 2015April 7, 2015 ~ Robin Estevez ~ Leave a comment

Laundry is spinning

Twirling and tumbling

Colors going round

Like if I’d eaten some

Psychedelic

Hallucinogenic shrooms

The washer swishes

The dryer shakes

Colors going round

I’m in a trance

The bell rings

And put in another load

Are you being entertained or programmed?

April 8, 2015April 5, 2015 ~ Robin Estevez ~ Leave a comment

To many wasting time smoking

cess

Deweeding their minds

Causing this mess

Dipped in the pool of consumer

Debt

Ceiling

Hard to keep up with Kardashians

Their hope Quivers

Robyn’em of change promised

They sit while cancer lurks

Sneakers scuffed

Been Appled picked

Taxed out of the bracket

the Jones done kept

But lets forget all this mess

Reach out to your baby mama & spark up that

cess.

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Side note: Don’t’ know why I went old school with pop culture I wonder if you can pick up the references on above poem. Was watching TV flipping channels between CNN Doc on Marijuana buisness and The Kardashians and thinking to myself are these people for real!?!