Wednesday, July 3, 2024

New poem- Get Ready to Disappear


 
Get Ready to Disappear 
By Chuka McCoy 

There are people out and about 
Promoting a particular project 
That will affect life as you know it
And not in a good way
"We The People 
Up here at the top 
Sit pretty and do whatever we want 
While everyone that doesn't bend to our will
Will be gone
People that don't agree with us
Look like us
Act like us
Associate with us
And line our pockets
Will disappear 
Deportation 
Murder in an official act
Starting up the military draft
It won't matter 
If you are a citizen here or not
You are all insignificant and beneath us"
It's time to be seen and heard
It's time not be treated like worthless citizens
Or a fly at THEIR barbecue cookout
Let's show them that people
From the projects to the penthouse
Will not disappear 
And we are stronger 
Than their quest for power over all

Friday, April 28, 2023

New Poem- Be Better


Be Better

By Chuka McCoy


Woke

Adult please

Stop letting the record skip

Or even break

Repeating this word

Parrots say

"You sound old and out of touch, Dr. Evil"

Say something different

Do something different

Be better

Work together 

Instead of letting that word

Be a substitute for everything

And everyone that

You hate and fear 

Saturday, April 15, 2023

New Poem- Permit Me To Say

 


Permit Me to Say

By Chuka McCoy


Hey kid

Do you want to drive?

Well, here's a car

Go out on the road and enjoy

You don't know how to drive?

We will get around that and you will learn

You don't have a permit to drive?

So what!

We need as many people out there

To drive with cars

That they don't know how to use

Or learn how to use 

Or want to use

Who cares who you might hurt

Guns,

Eh, I meant 

Cars for everyone!!

Friday, May 27, 2022

New Poem-It's Time

 


It's Time by Chuka McCoy 


It's time

To change our tune

To not go through the same song and dance

That we have been through for DECADES now

The ability to limit the amount of people that

Should NOT have guns in this country

Has been out there

But politicians that are getting their pockets stuffed

With money from gun lobbyists 

Vote time and time again

To not put those checks in place

While

YOUR loved ones

YOUR friends 

YOUR children

Getting MURDERED on a weekly basis

When it could have been prevented

And what do we get from those same politicians in each instance?

Enough of the minimum amount of empathy

To skirt past the issue

Until next week's mass shooting happens

ENOUGH

Stop the dancing

DO something to improve it

Or we need to improve on the people

In that position

Otherwise

We will need more land for graveyards


Tuesday, February 9, 2021

A message to my cousin (2/7/2021)

 This is the message that I wrote to my cousin, who passed away last year, before the start of the Super Bowl. 


Mario,
Here's comes the Super Bowl. I know we normally talk before kickoff. I miss you down here. You'll be happy to know the Bucs got into the big game. Hopefully, things goes well tonight. I love you. 


Tuesday, September 22, 2020

New poem-Angels

 


Angels

By Chuka McCoy


There are people 

That guide us through life 

These angelic souls 

Lend their voices 

To shape and mold our world 

But they are here for a short time 

The void left by their departure is big

But we must be those angels

That pick up where they left off

Their voices will be part of

What we have to say

Friday, February 23, 2018

New poem-Conversations



Conversations
By Chuka McCoy

I had a dialogue when the shooting in a Colorado movie theater happened
I expressed my feelings about it
But more and more shootings have happened since then
So, instead of showing that dialogue (which is still valid),
It’s time to have a new conversation
Which is an old conversation
On how we cannot talk and be on the same page
We need our agencies to be the same page
To communicate with each other
It’s not Game of Thrones, folks
Unite the laws to connect these agencies to block dangerous individuals
From getting their hands on guns
Deal with these weapons that are obviously intended on doing more damage
Than hunting and protecting your family
Stop making mental health the scapegoat
The horrible monster in the room
Mental health is a concern in this country
We should approach it as getting people help
Not giving people a jail sentence
We must talk to each other
Show love to one another
To avoid some of these pitfalls in our country
Not talking about it is another form of abuse
Which is exactly what politicians have been doing
Ignoring the problem
Blaming others and kicking the can down the road
You knew what was going on and chose to do nothing
While people’s love ones suffered from the aftermath
Know something
Say something
Do something
That goes for everyone, including the people that represent us