A Freestyle Piece: With My Love As Home - 2/23/11

"May my heart be the edifice you seek when things seem bleak, my arms the cave in which you hide from harm, my soul the retreat you seek when your faith feels effete, my mind the vacation home you frequent whenever you feel the world is indecent, my gaze the dorm you reside in when you need to learn why your beauty is another quality you should confide in. With my love as home, you'll never be alone..."

-A. Lewis

A Brief Philosophy: Creativity - 2/23/11

"Impede a man's creativity, and you have him in the nooses of his frustration and inner distress. Stifle a man's creativity, and he becomes amorphous; without any way to express himself, he becomes whatever he's molded into by the thought processes required to attain whatever he's taught to desire. Before ambition there is creativity. Without it, success is a stipulated end rather than an interpretive beginning."

-A. Lewis

My Thoughts on The Happenings in the Middle East - 2/23/11

"Freedom was once a dream. An abstract and imaginary condition that seemed more inane than plausible. It appeared to lie beyond a horizon that could never be reached. Now, however, the horizon is near, and the sun hath already risen over two countries. As the sun shines on the freedom of those in Tunisia and Egypt, millions more in the Muslim world are ready to seize the light from the tyranny of the darkness."

-A. Lewis

A Freestyle Piece: The Hands of Time - 2/23/11

"I don't hear 'tick, tock' anymore. Now it's 'she, is.' I've heard that 'time will tell,' but I never thought that time would spell love with its progression. The procession of weeks and months have made my heart weak with wants and desires that will never expire since love never tires. Fires in my soul erupt anew with every second spent with you. The hands of time constantly mold our love into something better..."

-A. Lewis

A Freestyle Piece: Love, Unrequited - 2/23/11

"Love, unrequited. It will be slighted in the only way that cannot be righted: a paucity of reciprocity. Every reach to make contact only comes back with more sadness than the one before it. The easiest way to attract a heart? Ignore it. Attention asks, but neglect implores it. But, such a relationship is no good for it. It creates a flame while providing no wood for it. The other heart is left burning in yearning..."

-A. Lewis

A Freestyle Piece: When the Past Holds the Throne - 2/23/11

"Your memories are your enemies...you're so out of yourself that you can't even be into me. When your past is the king of your present, your future becomes a peasant, only evolving into what the past will let it. If you can't free yourself, you'll never be yourself; you'll only be a reflection of the poor way you see yourself. When the past holds the throne, you'll either date guys like your exes or be alone."

-A. Lewis

A Freestyle Piece: Miss Understood, Part Two - 2/23/11

"Whenever I'm alone for an instance...no matter the distance...my love for you stays the same, so you're the one to blame if you feel any resistance...I keep running into walls that come out of nowhere...all of the pain is in the past; why do you continue to go there? I know you've been misunderstood, but you're lightning in a bottle and I want to lead you like thunder would...let the hurt go; let your worth show..."

-A. Lewis