Progress
- Brisha Roxberry
- Apr 26, 2024
- 12 min read
Updated: Oct 8, 2024
P A I N F U L L O V E
STAR DUALITY
I wanna collide with you
Light up the space
Astro
Celestial
Truth of Existence
Be as Powerful
Nuclear Charged
You are Holy
You are Glowing
Hold our Bodies Close
We are Flowing
Come be one with me
I want you here by me
Every fiber of me
Quakes for your embrace
Supersonic Fission
Aim on the Fiber
With precision
Blast the Mirror
There’s no Missing
If I’ve fallen off the Wire
I’m always waiting for you
Come light up my sky
I’ll hold you down for good
I wanna
Give me the sweat
All those sweet vibrations
Taste every ounce of you
I know I got focused intention
Think any way you want
I want you, I need you
In every interpretation of
MUSERS
I’ve been looking for you for quite a while now
Been hiding, waiting for you to come ‘round
You’re glowing I can see you’re happy now
Been looking for you
For quite a while now
You’ve taken the path
Chosen to pave a road
Walking it on your own
Soon you’ll be levitating
Like a superhero telepath
Out to save the day
So strong you’ll feel
And right on cue
Right on cue
Right on cue
I muse with you
I muse with you
I muse with you
So mysterious and brand new
One of many wonder
To reach the ends
Of all I aspire
Creator of my inspire
I can’t help it
I need more
Craving depth and trust
FINISHED WITH YOU/ME + YOU
MELODY INSPIRATION:
I’m so Tired - Fugazi
Asleep - The Smiths
TO: Me + You
Lying here
In my own invisible pool
Lonely in my misery
Chains rubbing
The cut stinging from contrasts
I don’t adore
Chain chafing my joints
Spots of black and blue
Still all I see is you
All the mirrors have cracked
The bridge sways
Switching up directions
Making me go dizzy
The earth rumbles
Fill me with doubt
My knees shake
The beating quakes
The towers fall
Eternally bleeding
Pouring from my veins
Won’t accept I’ve lost it all
Sad woman ...
I unveil all of me
My gift to you
As.. As you’re..
You’re all I breathe
WHAT’S STOPPING US
Is it love?
It can’t be
Surely isn’t love
Here lies the issue
Of forbidden love
In a perfect world
With dreams of infinince
It’s not so hard
Hop on my ship
I’ll
P U R E P A I N
RELEASING EMOTIONS
Trapped in a bottle of emotions
Two shots in, how many more
Blacked out memories of past
Tumultuous feelings of seasons
Tearing apart my insides
Pain is my familiar friend
Want to make choices that last
The depths of my soul I explore
Opening gates, releasing these emotions
Flowing through the waves of time
Spotting cracks in the image
Reflected back in the mirror
A little girl, unable to hide
Your time is up, now’s your amends
Three shots and I’m in my altered state
Can’t save myself any longer
Never quite had it figured out
The spectrum of feelings only blends
Run out of options, this is for healing
Opening gates, releasing these emotions
Flowing through the waves of time
Fourth one in and there ain’t no slowing down now
Expunging the hate and terror
Before the demons consume me
A troubled soul in a soulless world
Lone wolf on a lonely earth
No amount of shallow conversation can save me
Never satisfied, always searching for more
Must I search for more or
Try to be content with settling
Open the gates, release sensations
As the monsters and hauntings
Escape the mind
Pour the demons from cages
They’ve been trapped in
This is releasing emotions
CHOOSE THIS
I’m tired of feeling like shit
I’m tired of sensing this shit
Exhausted with all the madness
Fed up with all this nay shit
Woke up and became the witness
I didn’t choose this
I had no choice
This is my very essence
Haven’t been understood
My brain, this worldview
Will terrify you
Moving so fast
I see it all
This is all
Always wanted to reach heights
Unbeknownst to man
Am I wrong
For being a human?
Think my life is fucked forever
I’m stuck like this
I can’t pull no trigger
I didn’t choose this
I had no choice
I made this my commitment
Can’t hear me, no spotting me
I don’t go to many places
I’m in the wind
Howling for change
Can’t leave my family
Living for all the faces
Of those whose suffering
Stares into my chest
I didn’t choose this
I had no choice
It chose me
FLOATING
Found myself floating with extraterresteries
Falling through the cosmologies
Whirling through holes of seismology
I can’t come back down to earth
Can’t stay on, I'm losing my gravity
Never again will I think I’m a curse
I’m done suppressing it, it’s my energy
My heart's in the ground
With my voice in my chest
While my mind’s on a vision
This is the only verse for me
Finding my footing on fresh beginnings
Don’t want us to fall while we’re landing
Been roaming foreign spaces for ages
We’ve traveled too far to lose ourselves now
Can’t waste time chatting and using
Here to plant with bare hands
A sturdier outline for foundation
The solution lets us see how
When we come to conclusions
We can globetrot
My heart's in the ground
My voice is in my chest
My mind’s on a vision
There is no other verse
I’m seeing stars, yeah I’m
I’ll choose crazy any day over
The dull experience of plain sane
On my parade you can’t even rain
We’ll be at the carnival
Flying in on the rover
Just to hop on the coaster
And ride the next arrival
Flipping and thrashing all the way back home
Taking security in the permanent-illusion
Globetrotting
Ex-Stars
Do you sense it?
It’s calling the
Visionaries
HEAVY WATERS
Drowning in my sorrow
Mourning a side of me
I haven’t found in the shallows
Of screens or disguised finery
Without the beating of a
Sincere heart I feel hollow
Lost in my misery
Of missing you
Unmatched melodies,
Camouflaged fury
Callous desires
Emergence of passion, fiery
Ohhhh, what could’ve been
Wish me well
Surrendered to your drum
Pumping the rhythm
Of my fading bosom
Reach for you in my hums
The sound of you in
Ohhh, what could’ve been
If I’m wrong, make me sin
Wish me well
Wonder, awe, magic
FEAR
If you want to herd me in
I can’t be restrained
In any way, don’t entertain
With the hope to wrap my wings
Discard my dreams to fulfill your fantasy
My heart stretches farther than one
I get if that’s not your thing
There is nothing wrong with options
I know this is my time
Mastering every side of me
Brushing off my corners
As the answers evade me
Why comply to the time
A bleep of thought
Woven in the
Alienified empress
To this mankind
I am divine
Across nations surprise
The flicker of the now
An aspect of a play
So intricately compilation
Everybody’s the pretty and the ugly
You make me insane and
You’ve got the steep pockets
I’ve got the deep-rooted punctures
Time I lost, time that escaped me
Empty the holes in my wallet
As I’m tearing at my sockets
Proliferating thoughts of the mind
Whether intertwined with flickered
Lights and revelations or meaningful places
I still get lonely, I still feel unusual
My heart’s been broke in two
Yeah I learned as a typical
Storing them like a million little lockets
I know the fear
I am the feared
I crave the sensational
Inspiration is the icing on the cake
You’re the pull to my aching
The heart’s the sweet craving
The pain a path so deeply un
To be revered, I didn’t volunteer
Shake the ashes from the leaves
Of the tree and repeat the descension
Oh did I mention, she rigors for desire
She inhales fire, she breathes smoke
Can’t see her but
Don’t stand close, you might choke
As the me cowards
?WHAT AM I DOING
Got no plans, got no
I’m too weak, I’m too naive
Can’t make friends
Only animals like me
Can’t keep a lover
Parents don’t understand
No one to run to
I want playmates
Can’t grow up, can’t escape
Battle of the spirit and the ego
Maybe I know myself too much
Could I be the test subject?
I am alien in this plane of existence
I need balance, I need relationships,
Creative, thoughtful, logical, egoistic
There’s a fine line between
I’m so bipolar, I’m so
I will find my way somehow
IT POURS/DRIPS
Knowledge drips in the glass
Just take a sip
And gulp it down
Drinking red
Drinking red
Let it flow
Spill it out
Open the depths
Of the gates
Let it flow from the beating
From the blood of my heart
Let it flood the streets
Let it sweep the people
Let it feed the soil
And crash the cities
Spilling reds
Spilling reds
The harder you swim
Against the current of evasion
The more turbulence is met
And the worse water stings
Bleeding lips
Bleeding lips
FOR THE LIFE OF ME
Am I vanishing?
As time passes away from me
Another day coming
Anticipating another crash
If I can’t reign in myself
Am I even meant to lead?
My body may be present
But I can’t seem to find my mind
For the life of me
Electrons charged to burn
So positively disrupted, electro-magnetically
Bursting at the seams in negativity
Spilling in ambiguity
Another 20-something year old
Imprisoned in the peril of my past
Desperately reaching for my future
Stupefied, mystified
For the life of me
She jumps through all the possibilities
Seeking the next best reality
Hardly ever in the moment
They say time don’t pass
When you haven’t found now
I may be blurred in
Even quite erratic
One thing I know is I’m free
From attachments
Floating in circles
Can’t shake these cyclical hurdles
For the life of me
Crushed and rooted is my soul
Birthing foreign versions of I
Sailing waves of phases
Keeping my stances as I’m feeling
Synchronized with my shifting psyches
Can’t seem to touch the ground
For the life of me
My body may be present
But I can’t seem to find my mind
For the life of me
Spirit revealing to me
N O S T A L G I A
DEAR FRIENDS
To all my dear friends from my memories
I still think about you
I will always love you
I think about all our times spent
The joys we made together
The experiences we found
The moments we shared
To forget I wouldn’t dare
You will always be with me
Even if you don’t see me
I smile for elated us
Just feel the laughter we
Had foolish and goofy
And chuckle and reminisce what was
Close to home, never distant
So we can relish in sweet memory
Feeling as if I’m smiling with you
I dedicate this to you
Never to be lost in time
Held dearly in my heart
Oooooohh
Set my soul on fire
Make me feel alive
Open the gates
Let it pour out
Hit the green light
Flying with the fairies
Glitter, ponies and pixiedust
House made of foliage
Mounted to my Pegasus
Destined to reach all my wishes
Blowing with the genies
Showing me my magic
Waltzing in greener pastures
Fancying my dreams
“Can I
I said “excuse me while I"
Free the giants from capture
Hunt with the pirates
Drudged the jungle
Dug my grave to find it
Unlocked my chest
Sparkly, dazzling riches
Floating with the legendaries
Soaring with the dragons
Dancing with the stars
Striking with the luminaries
Sprinkle this magic/dust
Figment of your imagination
The way you stare at me got me feeling like an she’s too cheerful, she’s an
Like an enigma
Hippie
Musketeer, mountaineer
I take on new frontiers
L O V I N G S E N S A T I O N S
*Hold me When I’m Weak
Don’t want to hang on any longer
Take me under your spell
We’re not getting any younger
You know exactly who you are
Pull me under hypnosis
When your eyes locked on mine
It was a gesture which can never be broken
Distracted from myself
IT’S YOU
I see it in your eyes
Raging desire,
Star-driven,
Baby you’re a
Human, amphibian, astro-figure
The perfect infliction
creature of seduction
YOU CHOOSE
All I ask is that you
Stay with me
Come and dive into a world that you wouldn’t believe
Only if you saw it with your eyes
Would you come stargaze with me
Feel the cool breeze through the leaves
Understand if you wanna be my man
I can’t be put in confined
Protected for my own good
I don’t need saving just a replica of me
Unseen territory, A New Haven
Domination Personified
N A T U R E & T R U T H
When they wipe out half the flora and fauna
And no one bats an eye
The squeaking crows
Despite being so invested in their forest
Don’t make a gawk
And so the invaders move in further
Told I should just marry rich
I lost my mind and I don’t want it back
Maybe all those love stories
Were another slip in the crack
Were all concerned with the image in the mirror
All I ever wanted was to belong
All I ever wanted was to belong
To belong here
To belong
With the spirit of the horse
The weight of an air balloon
The magic of a rainbow
And the strength of the dreamcatcher
WHERE IS MY MIND?
I lost it this time
Something ain’t right
I think I found the key
But this ain’t really me
Even though I’m searching
I’m projecting destiny
The air’s too heavy
It’s getting hard to breathe
We’re rotting, we got diabetes
I am plastic, I am poison
Like a slow killer
Infecting the flesh
Eventually reaching the bones
To shatter the foundation
Shots and lab-grown food
That don’t put me in the mood
Tarnished soils
Expunged oils
Extracted material
Cramped critters
Screeches and moans of madness
Do you hear the sirens
Hunting the critically endangered
And the ones just surviving
HYPOCRITIC
My cars faster, yours is too old
I have more friends, you’re all alone
I've booked another cruise
My table is I’m so rich
My house is bigger,
Preach God every Sunday
Keep those hands to yourself
I don’t want to change this
Sorry I won’t stop because
you can’t comprehend this
We sell ice cream, chicken wings, everything
Come choose your flavor
These shoes are on sale
Are you
Would you like insurance?
It’s only
What do you want to watch?
I’m thinking netflix, Hulu and pornhub, red tube
TIME TICKS
Running running running, you can’t lose me
Running running running, you won’t find me
Running running running, there’s no hiding
I’ll spin you down, down, down
I’m ready to chase
I’m ready to race
MIRRORS
See the image in the mirror
Look fear in the eye, let it all hang out
Crack open the core, let it air out
Let your imagination run wild and free
I need to face myself, breath it into being
Follow your heart, trust your intuition
Believe in yourself, follow your dreams
Live in your truth, and they’re already yours
Heed to the wisdom this world has to offer
Receive all the fruits mother earth be giftin
If you plant the right seeds, you can prosper
Flick the spark and let’s guide the way
No one’s gonna lead you, it’s up to you
Face the darkness within you
Only you scare the monsters
Let your conscious expand
To paint the world as your canvas
Charge your solar for courage
To light a path for others to see
Don’t you see
With every little move we make
Every single step we take
The universe is watching
You best believe that
Those with new mindsets
Are stronger than ever
Designing other timelines
I just want to make sure
That I give back to this world
More than what I took
What I stand for
Will stay with young minds
Sending out butterflies
To emerge beautiful as ever
C O L L E C T I V E P O W E R
*DANGEROUS ANIMAL
RECLAMATION
Don’t look down if you’re afraid of heights
Taste the rhythm on your tongue
See the groove up in the sky
If I saw the devil I’d say
You’ve been looking for a fight
O food in our bellies, we grumble
We stomp the ground
We rumble, shake it
Fauna comes to warn us
The thunder, we break it
Lightning in our bones
Strike with precision
Sniper locks eyes on the enemy
Never fake it
Don’t look down if you’re afraid of heights
DIRECTIONS
Done, reclaiming our attention
I am here for one reason only
A high purpose, there is no question
Welcome in what we anticipating
I been seeing visions of light
Invite spirits to take control of my creations
I can hear the echoes in the wind
Heart beats deep, there’s no retaining
Let my feet stomp and my body shake
Let my light dance and this music quake
Feel my body rumbling in my soul today
Fuse my psyche to my role, beaming sunrays
Coo coo in come the breezes
Saying we, we want changing
All we wanted was a little saving
Done, said we’ve had enough
We’re choosing new directions
IT’S OURS
Victory’s on the horizon
Chanting the forgotten stories
Teaching the remaining
We got anthem in our veins
Rhythm in our blood
Freedom in our wings
Moving at twilight
Victory’s on the horizon
The birds tweet in time
A beat perfectly synchronized
Perfectly placed in time
Fluttering along the rift’s temp
Flowing through the breezes
Done, said we’ve had enough
Taking back direction
Anticipation
Time’s almost up
We’ve got our cavalry
We’ve got our blazing knights
And endless armory
We are marching near
Stealing back the reins they tried to steal
Stretching our wings
Victory is in the horizon
ANGER
Redemption
This little lady don’t forget a thing
If you wronged me in the past
You know you gon feel a sting
If it’s knocking on your door
You feel tappin on your shouldea
You hear the tone in your brain
You can’t ignore the ringing
When the thunder rumblin
We just gon let it rain
If it’s hauntin in your sleep
If you see my smile in the peeps
If you hear my words in the whispers
If it’s yankin in your thoughts
If it’s aching in your heart
If you feel a loss from your keep
Don’t beat yourself up
Just learn from the mistake
You don’t know the future
What you find in others,
You don’t underestimate
With every rejection I come back
Better, brighter, wiser, higher




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