My Love Testament!
By: JoJo Deogracias Ejonga
My Love Testament!
Heartaches,
Broken Heart,
can’t get a hold of myself.
Have you ever been so madly in love with someone, but afraid to tell that person how you feel?
Have you ever loved someone so much that you refuse to express your feelings to her, just because you don’t wanna make things awkward?
Have you ever loved someone so much that, you are willing to numb your feelings for her — just to protect the relationship you have with that person?
Have you ever loved someone so much that, your heart ache so much, you can’t feel it?
Have you ever been so in love with someone, that you feel so restless?
These questions are not intended to be directed at you, but rather to you, and for you!
It is a way for me to communicate how, and what I am feeling right [NOW], as I write this testament,
Testament of my love for you.
Is it your voice, your beauty, your old soul, or your heart that has made me fall in love with you?
Or, is it all the above that has gotten me to loose my mind, and falling so madly in love with you?
I can’t say it is,
nor can i say it isn’t,
but all I know is,
I am falling in love with my friend — but don’t know how to feel, or what to say, and how to say it to her!
I have always prided myself for having mastered the Art of Love,
I have always seen myself acquiring The Mastery of Love,
I thought I mastered the Art of Giving Love (don’t get too excited now — not that kind of giving love (lol) — rest assured, there isn’t any problem in that department), but rather loving someone purely!
I thought I was in control of my heart, until it was captured by my “Want” for you.
I was wrong,
Yes, I was very wrong,
I was actually never in control,
and my want for [Your] love has proven me wrong.
Although I have experienced love before, fallen in love before, and even been crazily in love before (I thought I had been),
I will confess,
those feeling are miniscule compared to what I feel and how I feel about you.
Now, a giant “Wall of Jericho” is standing before me,
The Wall of fear that seems unscalable, is before me, and I feel defeated with disappointment.
I feel like an hypocrite now that, I myself am confronted with a Wall,
I find myself too afraid to scale it,
while I tell everyone else to scale their walls, including the great wall of fear, but I can’t find the courage to scale mine.
To be honest, there are reasons for me to be fearful of scaling that wall, because this wall is unlike other walls — this is a delicate wall that can’t be scaled ruggedly, or breached without care — because it is 10 percent physical and visible — 90 percent invisible (emotions and feelings).
It is too delicate to be tampered with, but heavy enough to crush your heart into oblivion.
Yes I am afraid of it’s delicacy,
I am afraid of destroying our trust,
I am afraid of pushing through that wall,
because, I am in fear of being crushed into oblivion,
left lifeless in the wilderness of heartaches, and heartbreaks.
I am afraid of giving up on love,
I am afraid of falling down mount Everest of disappointments,
or drowning down the Pacific Ocean of Heartbreaks!
I feel like I am drowning!
I feel like I am drowning in a deep ocean of fear, with no end in sight,
drowning, drowning, and drowning in fear, as I struggle to stay afloat,
I feel like i am being dragged down into the abyss,
afraid of the unknown,
afraid of not knowing how to express my feelings to you,
I am afraid of how you will take my confession of the love I have for you,
I am in fear you might push me away,
I am afraid that my feelings for you might betray our friendship,
I am in fear of rejection,
so afraid of being rejected by you, and left HEART BROKEN,
I am just afraid of the unknown.
I have written about love before,
I have written about “A man who loves crazily”,
I have written about falling in love, and being heartbroken,
But,
Never ones have I ever felt so confused about my feelings,
Never have I ever felt so powerless,
Never have I ever felt like — (you know what), meaning “I don’t know how I feel, how to feel, or what to feel”.
But, what I know is:
I am standing in front of a mirror,
trying to look deep into my eyes,
my soul, and hoping to see my inner self,
hoping to dig deep, and maybe somehow find the courage to tell you how I feel.
I wish I could tell you all this,
but I am too afraid to lay it down to you,
maybe one day — maybe, that one special day would come,
where I will be able to pour my heart out to you,
and hopefully that day isn’t to late.
I thought I would never say these words:
My Heart isn’t made of steel,
I used to think it was, and even if it were,
my want for your love has broken and melted it!
Haha, Love can truly break anyone, and penetrate anything!
The day you read these [Testament] is the day I pour my heart out to you.
My Love Testament
Speak Out
By Jojo Ejonga
The threats we face from those in power, the authoritarian, the PIC machine, the war mongering politician, the tokenized, and the enablers are so severe, whereby staying silence is being complicit. I refuse to be complicit, that’s why I speak the way I speak, and they hate me for it.
They hate me because of who I am, “An Out Spoken Critic”
who gives No fuck, of what they think, how they feel, or what they say, about what I say.
They hate me, because they don’t wanna hear the truth I have to say,
The facts I lay down, the way I call it, “how it is”.
They panic, not because what I say is controversial to them, ” Nahhh”, they panic because of what I describe, who I describe, and where I describe it from, and to whom I describe it,”You, the People of the World.”
They hate the exposure, they hate the airing out of dirty laundries, ultimately, they love the [Status Quo], their power, and the fame, that is why, they never wanna let go.
They are so drunk on it, they are so deep into their swamp of arrogance, corruption, and indifference — that is why, to let go, or seeing the light of acceptance, liberty, Justice, and Equality, is to give up their most valuable treasures — Treasure that has become, or transformed into a fortress of evil, pain, and agony.
But, as long as Injustices continue to infest the world,
demoralize my community, used to oppress my people, and to decapitate the society — I will never stay silence.
I will speak-up, speak-out, without fear of who might be offended, or whom I might offend, because humanity, and individual freedom are too valuable not to call out the threat against them, or be to be worried about how an oppressor feels about it.
Now, I ask of you, Would you stay silence, inactive, continue to enable division, oppression, promote the prison industrial complex, the war machine, human servitudes, child labour, promote indifference, or would you, Stand-up, Speak-up, and Speak-out against it?
If, and When you do, I will be there, because I am already there, standing Shoulder to Shoulder with you in Solidarity.
Your voice is powerful — Never let anyone, or anything silence you, but use it, not to divide, but rather to unite, and for those without the ability, or the opportunity to speak speak. Aka. The Oppressed.
This is a Communique for Action, a call to Speak-out, a call for Unity, and a Call to Stand-up and a call to burry the fear that has held us captive to ourselves, It is a call for Reckoning.
Speak-out!
Breathe
By Jojo Ejonga
Life is full of ups and down.
It is full of fluctuating emotions, and feeling sad one day, and happy the next, or maybe not. Or call it: Living life Tick Tacking between Manic and mania.
Life is full of struggles: Struggles with self, struggles with others, struggles within struggles, struggles that feels like never ending, or those that makes you wanna call it quits!
Call it Hectic, be they Challenges, Adversities, or whatever life is, or it becomes, or what it throws at you, you must remember to breathe, you must allow yourself to take that breath.
You must take that deep breath.
You must breathe because life knows how to push. It will surely push you, but a breath in time, might be what saves the day, it might be the badly needed moderator in time of immense pressure, as we humans are prone to being reactionary, or even irrational.
Just take a second to breathe,
Remember to always take a Breath.
Atoms and Eve: The Power of Love and Attraction, and The Effect Of The Bonds Between Beings
By JoJo Deogracias Ejonga
The strength of a bond can depend on the similarities that are found between beings. Many bonds and the beings that are involved appear to be almost identical, with respect to having characteristics, behavioral patterns, and fundamentals. Although there is obvious difference between the moving parts of each being, the bond (if properly managed) can reach a state of harmony. Proper management can orchestrate an entire body of beings who will then share what looks like a single bond. For example, within a group of four, very easily with resonance (a form of communication from outside, or within), can three of the four complete a task as they equally distribute their efforts, while the fourth will focus its efforts on keeping the bond stable between the four combined.
There are different types of beings and there are different types of bonds. It is strange through, to think that a being while under observation will behave differently in comparison to when it is not. So one can only assume that the same can be said about the bond. When a bond is established between any amount of beings and others become linked or involved, they influence the characteristics of each other’s bond (as when approaching each other closely) and will induce slight fluctuations in each other’s wave lengths. This may even apply to a single pair that is not the most compatible fit.
The lowest cost of energy being spent approach will only benefit a properly linked bond between beings who arrange themselves in a way that is the most stable due to resonance, and not so much to linking lightly with another without even your most standard of bonds that will break apart at a relatively “Low Cost of Energy”, as if no bond was even made. A weak bond can serve many purposes, but the beings involved will spend just as much time keeping the bond intact as they would completing any sort of task. (If not more).
Any being whose potential is present but not active should not yet seek any sort of lasting bond. A bond itself with potential that is not present would also (like the being under this condition) be unstable and unpredictable. It has been discovered that an unstable bond can cause destruction to an individual being, a bond or even bonds (naturally including the beings) that are not even directly involved.
Also, a champion pair with a strong link (like a sort of double bond) could experience what may very well be something quite difficult to maneuver through. Not every being, in its current state, can benefit from this double bond. Although it may become the type of being who could.
Now, what is unclear to me is when exactly the bond starts, and what even causes the attraction that later causes the bond. Why Atoms behave so strongly?
Bleeding to Oblivion
By Jonathan Ejonga-Lihau.
Aka. JoJo Ejonga
All I wanted is love,
To love you, and be loved by you, is all I desired,
but rather than getting love, what I got is heartaches and heartbreaks.
I was crazy about you,
and gave you all my heart, and the love that comes with it,
but you took my heart and gashed it, took my love and trampled all over it, and dragged it through the valley abandonment,
There in the valley, my heart, my love, and my dignity is left as a vagabond, lost within itself, confused, and bleeding to oblivion.
You said you loved me, but did you?
With that, I digress.
Bleeding to Oblivion
Journey to Your Heart
By Jonathan Deogracias Ejonga-Lihau
Aka JoJo Ejonga
Loving someone is a journey, and for me just saying I love you is incomplete without fully understanding and knowing who you fully are.
I am so sorry for waiting so long to ask for the permission to dive deep into the beautiful Ocean of Love, proven to be your heart, so please be my guide in this journey to YOUR HEART:
A journey for enlightenment,
A journey in search of the secret behind your love for me
A journey to know how deep that love is,
A journey to know what your goals and dreams are,
A journey to understand your wildest dreams, the places you wanna go, the height you wanna reach in life.
Take me on that journey, the journey to know who you are in private, what and who keeps you awake at night, what and who brings you joy,
Please take me to the journey of knowing the good, the bad, the worst — I mean all of you.
Take me to the journey, the journey to understand how to love you radically, how to give you “That” LOVE you deserve.
I know that I have missed the mark when it comes to loving you radically, and that is something I want to fix, because you are deserving of more — more than just the words “I Love You”.
You are deserving of a Radical Love
Please, allow me to journey deep into your heart to learn how to love you and give you the love deserving of a queen — because I truly want to love you for who you are, and love what you love, go where you love to go, reach the height you wanna reach, and support you with Radical Love.
Please take me to the Journey of your HEART.
Oh, Nature
By Jonathan Ejonga-Lihau.
Aka. JoJo Ejonga
Oh, Nature Oh Nature,
Oh, Nature Oh Nature, how can I say “NO” to you?
Oh nature, your beauty is unrivalled, I am gratified my it and can’t take my eyes off your blue colored skies.
Oh, nature Oh nature, my love for you is unmeasurable, and a force not to be reckon with. When I look out to the Oceans, the Seas, the Rivers, and the Lakes, I am met, taken away, or should I say, blown away by the Power, the Strength and Might you project through the Crashing Waves, the Blowing Winds, and the Freshest Breezes Oh nature.
Oh, Nature Oh Nature, you are a masterpiece and a priceless precious Art of Beauty
Through the Precious Purple of Flowers, the Beautiful Brown of Leaves, and the Glamorous Green of Plants and Trees, you project you yourself. You’ve Wrapped around you with Beautiful Mountains, Peaks and Hills, Tall, Strong, and Beautiful they stand guard, protecting the environment, the priceless rock you’ve gifted me — Oh nature.
Oh, nature Oh nature, look how beautiful you are!
Oh Nature, you are my Beautiful Art.
The Wall
By Jonathan Ejonga-Lihau.
Aka JoJo Ejonga
The last 7 years has been the most eye opening in my short almost 33 years that I have been alive. There have been waves of social justice revolutions and cries for change in the justice system, change in Monarchy, political revolutions around the world, wars and crisis breaking out left and right, annexation, and threat of annexation of sovereign nations and territories by dictators, the collapse of powerful politicians and celebrities, there have been pandemics, endemics, and epidemics worldwide, coupled with rise in addictions and the deaths from it, the rise in suicides and mental health issues, all within this short 7 years. To simplify my point I would say, it has been Chaos.
The toll of the chaoses that has been leveled on us has created an environment of indifference where many of us now treats each other as filth and abandoned any sense of humanity. So many have become Asocial, while many could be easily said to have developed Borderline Antisocial Disorder, or Antisocial Traits as defined by DSM 5.
Furthermore, many have sought refuge, or even become captives of both illegal and legal drugs, alcohol, or anything they can find to numb whatever is going on inside them. So many people find themselves becoming victims of the So-Called Justice System, or should I say “Injustice System”, sadly equally far too many are gone too soon by suicide, homicide, and/or negligence.
It is easy to become stagnant, see things on a micro level, or have tunnel vision and remain enslaved in a doorless prison within our own thoughts, feelings, self-guilt, and pity, or we could scale the wall that has kept us inside, and liberate ourselves from it?
You might be asking yourself — what does it means to scale the wall within the context of this communiqué? Please keep in mind that scaling the wall is a learning journey, it is emergent, and might take time grow to its full potential. With that in mind, Scaling the wall is:
About us seeing through and beyond illusions, limitations, lies and deceits, while bringing our true potential, consciousness, and awareness to the forefront in everything we do, we see, we say, and think.
Scaling the wall is a call, a call to the courageous, the young, the old, the activists, organizers, politician, religious leaders, social workers, healthcare workers, students, educators, or academia, and everyone in between to stand up and call balls and stripes, or should I say –speak the truth– truth to power, truth to the society, truth to the misunderstood, truth for, and to the oppressed, and most importantly, truth to self.
Scaling the wall is a call to those of us who feels like something is not right, the more is going on underneath the appearance of freedom, the appearance of truth and equality. In a layperson term, it is a call for those of us who are skeptics and open-minded to wake up and not be silence in the midst of chaos, oppression, abandonment, and injustice.
Scaling the wall is a call for Love, a call for Allowance, a call for Expression, Expansion, Progression and True Autonomy where all are free to evolve without fear, retaliation, or hesitation.
Scaling the wall is a Cause, a cause focused on making sure that one system of oppression and regression is not replaced for another, or one dictator, authoritarian, or a monster is not replaced for another, but instead, a cause to bring into manifestation a new positive and refreshing experience entirely.
Scaling the wall is a call for awareness, not only of self, but of our fellow beings and the environment — where self-empowerment and personal responsibilities are promoted and empowered.
In order for us to truly change the course of life on this planet and bring about a new paradigm of experience, we must raise the level of awareness, and be willing to open our minds to expand it.
Scaling the wall is for all of us, however, some may never reach their needed potential of Scaling the wall because they’ve refused to release and relinquish the victimhood mentality and public indoctrination intended to keep us deaf, dumb, and blind, or should we call it “Functional Illiteracy, or Illiterate”.
One of our biggest obstacles is the inability, or maybe the delay in catching onto the greatest weapon the captors use to keep us imbalance, it is “Confusion”. We must therefore scale that wall of confusion, for it is the greatest pollution, and the favorite tool used by the polluter to keep us divided. It is clear that, if we as people are divided whether through race, gender, sex, religion, social-economical class, we can easily be subjugated and separated, thus leading to cynical behaviors, it leads us to misunderstanding each other, disrespecting each other, being indifferent to each other, and abandon our sense of equality and become numb to each other’s pain and suffering.
But we can rise to the occasion as we resist, confront, and scale this wall, not in physical resistance, which result might be counterproductive, but rather rise together in conscious awareness, subtle but powerful. After all, external circumstances are just effects, effects that have been brought into manifestation through unconscious causes.
The ultimate goal of the communiqué is to call on all of us to enter into that journey and Consciously Create, Consciously Choose, and Consciously Cause. It is true that before every great elevation, there is education.
We must educate ourselves to be able to identify the poisons our society is being exposed to, we must scale the wall to care for our fellow beings, we must scale the wall to effect change, we must scale the wall for freedom and autonomy, ultimately, we must scale the wall to give radical Love.
The last 7 years of chaos has divided us, destroyed us, and undermined our sense of humanity, and doing nothing is being complicit, but we can each do our parts by scaling the wall.
MY PROROGATIVE
November 1, 2023
By “JoJo Ejonga” Jonathan Deogracias Ejonga-Lihau
Living in my own head, some say it is a fantasy, maybe not, maybe it is just my reality…
Admiring my world, the world I see, the world I feel, or believe to be — is my autonomy
Unwonted many might say, unworldly many might infer of me, but,
Recapitulating my reality is within my prerogative and my agency as a being,
Elope with me to my word, to my sanctuary, not for a while, but for infinity,
Notorious, Infamous, or maybe a fantasy they might call it, that is their prerogative, but in my world, it is my reality, or should I say: quintessential.
Lost Across The Waves
By Jojo Ejonga
Alone is a fisherman stranded with nothing but his fishing pole and the fresh smell of salt water.
Even without human interaction,
he feels peacefully at ease while surrounded beneath the currents by whales, sharks, salmons, and tunas along with all other aquatic creatures.
I am at home, he says to himself.
Although in a harsh environment, within high waves, and blowing winds, while he sits in his little vessel,
He was content as he counts his blessings andfor being alive, for being able to be lost at the moment, out at sea, and across the waves, surrounded by beautiful aquatic creatures, and the experience of the beauty nature provide.
Fin.
Southern Sunset
By Jojo Ejonga
Pink like a cherry blossom,
Deep red as hibiscus and orange, so juicy as a tangerine,
how could it not be my escape at the end of it all?
-I mean-
No matter how down I am,
No matter how tired my body and soul finds itself, I can’t stop, nor help myself from looking up at this sherbert colored sky.
The closer one get’s to the equator
“That” earth’s beauty is revealed.
I can only imagine what the winged creatures experience, as they sail the sky,
-year after year-
migrating north to south, slicing through all the warm hue’s of summer air.
I will never fly as they do, or see as they see, but I’m quite content with my view from down here on the ground.
Fin.
Retire to a Lonely Abode
By Jojo Ejonga
Babe, this is not based on emotion my love,
These words I speak are genuine feeling deep inside me, they’re the best representation of what, and how my heart feels for you.
Words alone cannot express what I feel deep down, as it seems too good to be true at times, and at times like that, I wish I could just touch you, feel you, just to relieve my senses, that in essence, you are absolutely real!
Impossibilities represents the difficulties I’m confronted with, when saying how much I love you, for words do not render it justice.
As I retire to a lonely abode, thoughts of you, visions of you, and the very longing for you, still linger. But real talk, who am I kidding, having you on mind, and my mind on you, has become my happy place -), a place I definitely wanna be in 4ever.
Fin.
Permission To Jump On Board-
By Jojo Ejonga
I am tormented with the thought of you,
my feelings are filled with the need to want you, the want of having you, and loving you more and more.
I am digging your vibes and energy right now, and honestly, I can’t control it.
I understand your hesitation, and the reasons why you holding back on giving us a chance — I get it — But I hope you are comforted knowing that, there is nothing to be worried or afraid of my dear — for all I want is to be with you, and be in your life.
Girl, you’ve been a mystery that I have been so eager to figure out, and my heart has been overwhelmed with my want for your heart, and I wonder if you would ever give us a chance — A chance to explore with each other, a chance to know each other, to love, and be loved.
I am willing to follow your lead, and take it at your pace, and speed,
I am willing to do whatever, and go wherever, to any destination you willing to go, even if it is to the end of the world.
All I ever want is to be a passenger, and you be the captain of these ship.
Hey Captain, permission to jump onboard and be enlighten, only if you would let me. For all I want is a chance to love you!!!
A Genuine Connection
By Jojo Ejonga
Sometimes in life, we come across new people, and more often we experience a genuine connection, with it, we feel a pure and natural spark inside of us. Other times, “that” genuine connection, and that pure and natural spark is absent — We seem to be the opposite of each other
But as part of human nature, the ones we feel so connected to, and the ones we have that pure and natural spark with we begin to build with,
we begin the process of knowing each other,
we begin formulating that needed bond and affection,
Or, begin to build on that relationship, while marinating in love, trust, and care.
Although in the beginning, we might looked at, or considered each other as strangers, but with the blessing of time, the relationship is fostered, and with that, trust and respect is established.
In that process of building:
-Many fall in love romantically, and develop romantic relationships,
-Many fall in love emotionally, and develop sincere emotional relationships,
-Some develop Platonic relationships,
-And, so many just become best of friends, with unconditional love for each other.
And, In other rare occasions:
we meet people that we feel like, we have known for a longtime, or should I say, we feel “that” immediate love at first sight, or “that” friendship at first sight.
-Regardless of how we come into each others lives,
-Regardless of how we build our connections,
-Regardless of how we build our relationships,or the type of relationship we build, or the relationships we have with each other, the love we share with, and for each others is Paramount in all, and every Relationship, it is therefore important that “Love exist at the center of every and all relationship”, and around that: respect, passion, trust, and caring can grow.
Brighter Days
By Jojo Ejonga
Brighter days oh brighter days, I hope and pray for brighter days,
Brighter days oh brighter days, I strive to witness the brighter days,
I find myself lost in my own thought, clinging on to nothing but your light, oh brighter days,
My hands shakes while I hold on to my dear life, and my face is covered and stained with the residues of my yesterday’s tears.
The past years has been a challenge to say the less.
I find myself slowly sinking, while stuck in place, or running an unwinnable race, oh brighter days.
Deep in my thought, I wonder if I’ll ever catch a break, and down on my knees, I pray to my creator, oh God do you have my back? I pose to him.
My faith is tested, while I try to hold steadfast, trying to keep faith, and hopeful to get a break, and see the brighter days.
I close my eyes and retreat to my quite place, in hope of seeing the brighter days,
Oh brighter days, why are you so fleeting?
Why do you run away oh brighter days? For the distance between us is like of the Sun and the Moon in the void of space. I try clinging to your light, for where I am, darkness attempt to sniff-out the present of light.
Brighter days oh brighter days, I await to see thee..
Desperate Love
By Jojo Ejonga
This is about a desperate lover, a person desperately wanting to be loved, but being met with unrequited love.
“The Plea of a Desperate Lover”
I try to love you, but you keep running away from me babe, I wonder what I’ve done.
I try to ask, you refuse to say the reasons behind “your” rejecting my love.
I don’t know how to take your mix messages, at one hand you say you love me, while at the same time you continue to run away.
Why?
Why don’t you want me to love you? I ask you if my love was unwanted, you won’t tell me,
I am left to wonder — What is it between us? What do we have?
I feel like a stranger, or maybe not — honestly I don’t know what or how to feel.
There ain’t no vibe in this sweetheart,
I am left clueless – oh no, you’ve left me clueless, you’ve left me to wonder, to question whether its worth giving my time loving you.
This uncertainty is driving me crazy, I feel tortured, and my heart is in need of your clarity my angel
Remember my love, communication is key to any relationship. All I need now is for you to communicate how you feel to me,
I wanna know if you truly love me, or you just wanna play games with my heart, that honey I can’t take and I have no choice but to walk away.
I have tried, and still trying to understand what this is my love, maybe you could spare me this heartache and pain, by just being straight with me, because I am tired of guessing — guessing about us, guessing about what we have, or don’t have, guessing whether this is unwanted love.
Call this an ultimatum, call this a plea for clarity, or even a last call for love, whatever it is, or whatever you call it my love,
all I need is clarity.
Don’t take this as me given up on my love for you — No my love– I ain’t, to the contrary baby, all I want is your love if you will give it to me.
You know how much I love you, So babe, please stop running.
All, I want is your love!
Balance, Light and Darkness
By Jojo Ejonga
Balance cannot come as perfect amounts of one thing — just because you believe it to be two separate things
While true light is exerted in a way that requires a taxing effort — true darkness on the other hand, should you be worthy of its toll — “Is a mutating affliction” that appears to tower over only to make you limitless.
So as one is not the absence of the other, it is not yours to allow or reject its arrival, but only to accept or deny its being there, can you choose.
Never is the light and darkness considered two puzzle pieces that fits perfectly together. Rather, they are as the sands of an ocean shore that is separated by a restless tide.
Q, U, and X
By Jojo Ejonga
Quiescent, is the only way I could describe our love, due to the actions you have taken, and the way you have handled our relationship.
Quintessential is what I thought of our love, but now I wonder and don’t know what to think of it.
Uberrima fides, I gave you my love and my heart, this is something many believed to be an
Ultrahazardous activity because I believed in true love.
Unappealing is what you would say our love has become, and I take umbrage to how you’ve dragged this relationship down to the gutter of mystery.
Xylophone, I must as well be, while I find myself making what appears to be making musical sounds of love, please don’t be deceived, the sound I make is the sound of pain, due to you hitting me with the hammer of heartbreaks and disappointment.
Xmas, a day of celebration — has now turned into a day of weeping for me, because of your unrequited Love.
XoXo to you Mi Amour!
The Effect of Pure Power
By Jojo Ejonga
Many loves power because if gives you control, or an appearance of having control. While power itself isn’t bad, but the abuse of power is.
Power has the ability to corrupt an individual, it becomes dangerous when it is unchecked, when it becomes Pure, Raw and unrestricted.
I ask myself, what does pure power, ultimate power, unrestricted power, or plainly raw power do when there is no limit or boundaries, when there is no law, or you make the law, Better yet, you are it?
Pure power creates a craving, a fiend for more high, not like anything else.
It creates a perception of godliness, a “godly high”, a high that makes you want more of, a high that can only come when using it, or when abusing it.
Pure power make you crawl for more when you feed it — comeback quick and stronger, and you need, you have to have more.
Pure power gives you a high that makes withdrawals and sickness comes fast.
Pure power gives you a high that is so beyond, where it becomes a reality and you believe you’re now that a “god” — that force of power that cannot be reckoned with, that Halo that can’t be touched, that seat that you sit in that is too high to be sat by anyone else.
It reality you are not what you think you are, but in position of power being fulfilled, that is what you feel and believe, that is now your truth and reality.
Pure power, if given to a person with even a sand grain evilness in them, it creates an explosive reaction, it grows rapidly, it feeds till it takes over, it becomes so big and overwhelming, it gives you no choice or space — it takes control of you, and gives you the zeal, and evil passion to control, and be controlling.
Pure power aphied its effect should not be given an individual, it is not suited for human to have, not is something that is meant for a human to possess.
Pure power is a curse when taken, it is a curse that doesnt weaken or goes away.
It is a disease that Will not loose, and will grow to take over. It is simply something that should not exist, but was found long ago, just like a disease, it is 100% dangerous, a danger to the world, a danger to humanity, it is a dangerous virus.
Power much be checked and balanced to avoid abuse, and prevent misuse and growth, where simple power turns to Pure, Raw and Unchecked power.
The world is terrorize by people possessed with raw power, nations, and citizen held captive, bombarded by people exercising pure unrestricted, unchecked, and raw power.
The consequences are devastating, mind-bothering, and disastrous.
The world now watches the repeat of the use of raw, and unchecked pure power — from Hitler in Germany taking over Poland, now to Putin in Russian attempting to take over Ukraine.
The consequences is the lost of human lives.
Standing up and being proactive, rather than being reactive in is the best way to stand against people who possesses such power, because appeasement only empowers them.
Tell Me Why
By Jojo Ejonga
Why must I ever beg for true Justice?
Why must I ever strive to get true Justice?
Why must I ever fight to get the true Justice that I am entitled to?
Why must I suffer under the disguise of what it is claimed to be Justice?
Why must I feel the pain of Injustice?
Why am I Disenfranchised?
Why am I Oppress?
Why am I not treated Equally?
Why am I always under constant Discrimination?
I wonder!
Is it due to Social Demographic?
Is it due to age ?
Is it due to Sexual Orientation?
Is it due to Gender
Is it due to Mental or Physical Disabilities?
Or, Is it due to Race?
Why Why Why is the repetitive tone.
I wonder!
Why defined by injustices, oppression, disinfrachisement, inequality, discriminational, are questions so many young, and old disenfranchised individuals ask themselves, and those are the same questions that dawn on me daily.
Just think about it, and tell me why.
Love that Defies Human Nature
By Jojo Ejonga
Hey honey, I understand that our relationship has been nothing but easy, but if you’re willing to make it work, I am too, for you mean so much to me my love.
Sweetheart, I am willing to put in more effort as you do, because I don’t think there’s ever a right time to let someone you love go.
Girl, you know I believe in the principle that, if someone means something to you, you should fight through whatever comes your way, and be determined to do whatever it takes to keep them in your life. My love, I am ready to do whatever it takes, and fight through whatever comes our way to keep you in my life.
I always knew that it was never going to be an easy journey, but what I never doubted was: “The Love I have for You”.
I never believed that finding “The One”, “That True Love” would be a walk in the park. No, I always believed it wasn’t, I knew it would be hard work, but deserving of it all.
It is a true saying from the old that:
A person who truly loves you will never let you go, nor give up on you, no matter how hard the situation is, or gets.
Babe, I don’t want us to just have an amazing couple of months and then it be all over in a flash. I don’t want to experience the feeling of hurt, confusion, and disappointment again.
I want us to stick together in our union, with that Mon amour, I confess my true love to you, and promise, no matter how hard the situation gets, no mater how high the waves hit, and no matter how, or what comes our way, I will always be here, and be there for you.
My Loyalty lay’s with you forever, and my love for you is Unconditional my queen.
I Love You More
By Jojo Ejonga
Do you know what it means when I say I love you More?
Do you know my love?
If you don’t, let me enlighten you darling, allow me to simplify it Mon Cherie:
When I say “I Love You More”, I don’t mean I love you more than you love me.
What I mean is:
I love you more than the bad days ahead of us,
I love you more than any fight we will ever have,
I love you more than the distance between us,
I love you more than any obstacle that could ever try and come between us,
I love you more than even the better days,
I love you to death Mon Coeur.
I love you more, is the Sincere, and Ultimate expression of my love for you.
Sincerely,
From love.
-DESTINATION PLANET LOVE-
By Jojo Ejonga
“How I got to love”
Some slip their way to love,
Some dive their way to love,
Some fly their way to love,
Some are just lost, and find themselves in love,
Some jump their way to love,
Some just walk their way to love,
Some even sprint their way to love,
And so many find themselves falling in love,
-but I,-
found myself crashing my way to love.
In life, people find love in different ways, and different people have different ways of getting to that true love. To some, it might be an easy journey, but not necessarily true to the next person. With that being said, no matter how you find love, or get to it, Love is a beautiful thing.
What I mean by love in this content is:
“True Love”
the unbroken connection, or connections and bond between two people.The Love Supreme.
Although love itself might be destructive, or constructive, but True Love is ultimately Constructive, Magical and Beautiful, so enjoy the Journey to Planet Love.
Happy Valentine’s Day.
Us
By Jojo Ejonga
Us, as in we “WE THE PEOPLE” who suffer in chain, and held captive in toilets and cages.
Us, as in we the oppressed class, the people of similar circumstances, the acclaimed societal outcast and misfits.
Us, as in we the presumed guilty, rather than innocent.
Us, as in we the tortured, the test of the inhumanity and persecutions.
-WE KNOW-
“WE KNOW” who the people really are,
“WE KNOW” who they say they are and and who they pretend to be.
“WE KNOW” the person you see, the person they hide from you.
“WE KNOW” who they are on the inside, and what they hide from you, the person they don’t want to bring home, the person they don’t show, or let come out in their community.
“WE KNOW” the person they only let come to light, when they are in the safety of darkness, in the safety of their darkest sanctuary.
“WE KNOW” the person you will never see unless you are “we”, “us”.
WE KNOW and WE’VE SEEN the ugly, the evil, the disgust, the sickness, the power hungry, the racism, the lynching, stereotyping, and the pure joy in them when they get to exercise and show their might in the darkest sanctuary.
“WE KNOW” the real life split –not the movie, that real person they changes into when they walk through that fortress door to grab their badges of honor, their keys, radios and, or uniform.
Here is my badge, my radio, my keys, and my uniform:
“I Make The Law, I Am The Law”
they says to themselves proudly.
“WE KNOW” the shine it gives them having their uniforms on, patrolling the insides of their darkest sanctuary, thinking they are more than humans, saying to themselves “I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT AND THEN SMILE.”
“WE KNOW” the worldly, dominant, godlike feelings they have, and in split prisoners are seen as slaves, tools, and just another number that must be counted.
“WE KNOW” they live in their own heads, and believes that in their “World” the beast does what he chooses.
We know that they know that we know.
We know that they know that we hear.
We know that they know that we see
We know, that they know, that we know, that they know we feel the pains, and we suffer.
We know that when the beast ,the animal, the evil, in his evil dark sanctuary — when he leaves his dark sanctuary, he splits and morphs into the person you know — he hides his true evil self, tuck it away, pushes it back, disguise it with the things you know — AKA (Mask It), until he comes back to his dark sanctuary that had only Known To Us, But Now You Know.
A person conviction should never be an excuse for maltreatment, abuse, discrimination , or violation of his human right. So many incarcerated individuals experience abuse from the same people they were supposed to seek safety from, they become victimized by them, solely because they are convicted of a crime… While the law is clear that, a person’s sentence is the punishment., Nothing More.
BROKEN HEART
By Jojo Ejonga
You’ve made me realize the existence and the power of mother nature that lies within my heart.
Unknown to me that a person’s heart is an active volcano that could explode as a consequence of a broken heart.
When you broke my heart you crushed and shattered it without mercy, triggering a volcanic reaction only known to a lover.
Loveless, hopeless, abandoned and alone I find myself.
Hummm, Ex Lover!
I trusted you,
I loved you,
I thought of you as my masterpiece
I gave you all my love, thinking that you loved me.
Boy, was I wrong!!!
Definitely blinded by your deceit, while you kept me a slave of your “Koni Koni Love” (fraudulent love).
Surely, love could be destructive or constructive, but the latter is what we had the love that contains the hallmarks of a destructive love.
You have left my heart traumatized, damaged, even doubtful of if I could ever truely trust or love again.
-I am hurt and broken, but I wish you well-
Thank You my Ex lover, for you have taught me well…in the matters of heartache and betrayal, for I have weathered the storm.
While the only thing you left behind was: the “gift of loneliness” (unable to find love in someone else) me loving myself.
-But-
no longer do I feel lost and alone, For I have risen like a Phoenix and found my true self.)
Ex Lover.
WHERE ARE YOU BABE
By Jojo Ejonga
Hey babe, where are you?
Lonely!
So Lonely!
So So Lonely I sit by the fire my love without you — Where are you my love? My heart lingers.
I want you by my side, holding your hands while staring at your beautiful majestic face and looking into you angelic eyes.
Holding you tight watching and enjoying:
The view of the pacific ocean,
The pleasant breeze from the ocean,
The heat from the fire, and
The beautiful sunset.
But my love, here I am alone — by myself, sitting like a drunk waiting on you all night to come and just walk in — But you are no where to be found.
Where are you I ask my love?
Please come home my love, because I need you.
Please come back to me and let work it out — for there is nothing greater than the love we have Mon amour.
My love
Viewing the sunset is only fun with you, so as watching the pacific ocean and everything that comes with it Mon cheri.
I love you babe, please come home — Your home my love.
Where are you my love?
UNKNOWN TO THE UNIVERSE
By Jojo Ejonga
Call me your lover babe
Call me anything you want my babe
call me whatever my love, for all I know is:
I am yours and you are mine,
you are my lady, I am your man,
we are meant to be forever my lady, and
our love is meant to last forever my precious jewel.
Our love is eternally bonded — Unbreakable, so solid like titanium. The foundation of our love rest on something words can not describe, and unknown to the universe – “THE ETERNAL LOVE”
I love you, Je t’aime, Nakupanda, Nalingi yo.
THE LOVE I EVER WANTED
By Jojo Ejonga
Betrayals, lies and heartbreak, made it impossible to love and trust a woman.
Aka “Iron dome” is what I became as a consequence of my past experience.
Then you walked into my life and changed everything.
You brought me hope
You held me down my love
You gave me confidence
You gave me love, and stood by me
You showed me what it means to be loved.
Babe, you’ve Transformed me — With confidence I say: “You’ve liberated my heart to love again”.
You are the one that I needed, and the love I ever wanted.
TRUE FREEDOM
By Jojo Ejonga
What it means to be free, is to be free in your mind, for freedom is abstract, and the only sound freedom, is the freedom of the mind. When our mind is free we obtain true liberation. The reason is our mind is the orchestrator of our thought, and our thought are the precursor of our actions, and our actions become our habits, which then colour our true character!
Liberate your mind, and share love.
Thoughts Within a Thought
By Jojo Ejonga
Thought,
Thoughts,
Thoughts about what?
Thoughts about life
Thoughts of how to hold on and not loose faith
Thoughts of how to end all the miseries, while I am stucked in a cage within a cage, for 23/1, five days a week — if lucky, one hour out of the sleeping cage.
Chainged up like a dog — just to be transported to a bigger cage, for a so called yard measuring 15 by 20 feets.
Cuffed up, hands behind my back, just to be escorted to take a 15 minutes shower in a chicken coop 3 times a week.
While they abandon human dignity, they kiss humanity goodbye.
You might wonder what happens to the rest of the 48 hours of the week — don’t worry, it is spent on lockdown, stuck in a cage like an animal — ready to be slaughtered.
What is left to do — is to “THINK” — is to develop “THOUGHT and THOUGHTS”
Good thought, bad thought, worse thought, all kinds of thoughts, even the worst thoughts. All this thoughts lingers in my head, and becomes a battle of thoughts — it gets very tough and tempting, so tempting, even terrifying.
Overwhelmed with depression, stress, and anxiety — hope fades away, my mind is filed with anger, with suicidal thought, hopelessness, extreme frustration, restless mind, and sleeplessness — my mind runs, my thought race, and there comes thought within thought.
Within my thought comes a thought of freedom a reminder of a brighter future, a reminder that:
The caging of my body, is not determinative of my future — my mind is free, therefore I am free.
Within that thought comes another thought, the thought of hope, a clear reminder of the people I love — a reality check that I am loved by many, that I am not alone.
Within that thought comes another thought, a clear reminder of my values, a reminder of what I stand for, what I fight for, what I strive and seek to accomplish, it is a clear reminder of the continuing fight for justice, equality, freedom and the work that needs to be done.
Within that thought comes another thought –with it — a question: Why give up now?
Within that thought comes a bullseye thought: What would your MAMA say?
A reality check to keep faith and keep on fighting.
Forced suicidal thought is the most inhumane form of psychological torture to be inflicted on a person. Its effect goes beyond psychological, it transcends and manifest physically — So, why force people to think of taking their own life, if degrading them isn’t the ultimate goal?
Many incarcerated individual are forced to suffer psychological torture in solitary confinement/segregation, to the stage and level where suicidal, or suicidal thought or thoughts becomes inevitable.
Regardless of your mental, or physical stability or soundness, no one is exempt from becoming vulnerable or, a prey to the physical and psychological phenomenon caused by solitary confinement, or as they call it segregation.
Confining a human being to situations as such — is inhumane, immoral, and violates every International Norm and laws, specifically “The Mandela Convention”.
I overcame the evilness of the torture inflicted on me — though left traumatized, but faith and perseverance is what I have chosen to live by.
It is time to move beyond Human caging and the use of solitary confinement/segregation.
Never Let You Go
By Jojo Ejonga
Understandable that my recent actions has made you question my loyalty to you
My actions has led you to even question my love to you
My actions has led you to question
whether I am letting “U” go my love.
Never would I Babe
Never would I let U go my love.
Never let U go is a promise I made to you and I — a promise I ought to keep, a promise I intend to keep, a promise I will definitely fight to keep…my love.
Loving you is the best thing that I have ever done in my life — therefore letting you go is self destruction, a self destructive act I won’t subject myself to my babe.
Imperfect defines me clearly, and surely I am full of errors as a human, but one thing that can never be misconstrued is the love I have for you, the deep love, the true love, the unconditional love that bounds us together my dear.
Deep down inside my love, you know how much I love you, for the sake of it — I appeal to your inner self – to remember our vows, to remember the passion we share for each other, to remember the extent of the love we share for each other.
This is not a persuasion — it is a plea for love, a plea to you to stay, a plea to you, and for not to go, for the sake of love.
My love… You know that without you, I am like a person left in a damaged and stranded ship in the middle of the ocean, surely, and slowly sinking, capsizing — if left without rescue –“Your Rescue”– My Love, It is over.
I will be damned to let u go, please stay my love.
Agape Love
By Jojo Ejonga
By his Power, I can breath.
By his might, I can move.
By his grace, I live.
In his mercy, I am forgiven.
In his righteousness, I am free.
In his kindness, I am loved.
For his love -AGAPE LOVE- is everlasting, and never fails.
His Everlasting Love
By Jojo Ejonga
Every single seconds, minutes, hours, and days that goes by is a reminder and a testament of his might, strength, grace, and his everlasting love for thee — So, sit back, relax and rejoice in the lord –Thy creator — Knowing that his goodness, his mercy, his grace, and his love upon thee is eternal.
Regardless of thy transgressions — the lord has not judged thee, nor would he, for he knows thy heart, and sees all within thee, but the lord chooses to remember it no more.
The child of the most high, the forgiving one, the chosen, the Victor — “Is” what the lord has called thee.
For he is the lord of mercy –so merciful, gracious, and forgiving.
The lord is thy light in the darkness of night.
The lord is thy provider in times of needs and wants.
The lord is thy comforter in times of grief and pain.
The lord is thy healer in times illness.
The lord is thy savior in times of danger.
The lord is:
-Almighty-
-All powerful-
-So loving-
And so kind.
His love is everlasting and endures forever.
By His Grace
By Jojo Ejonga
By his power and his might, I overcome each day — Where every breath, steps that I take, every single movement that I make is more than just a breath, more than just a step, and more than just a movement — It is rather a mountain moved, a battle won, and a victory declared.
Mountains are moved, Battles are won, and Victories are declared by his power, through faith by his grace alone.
For his grace is the engine to our everyday living.
-Through his grace I live-
His grace extends to everyone, and anyone.
It is evident in every victories, promotions, opportunities that comes my way.
His grace is evident each day I get to see.
Thus, I rejoice on every single breath I take, every single step I take, every single movement I make, and every single day I get to live.
I am an overcomer, full of his love and his divine grace.
For He So Loves Me
By Jojo Ejonga
For he so loves me, he gave me life.
For he so loves me, he breathe life into me.
For he so loves me, he delivered me from evil.
For he so loves me, he took away my diseases.
For he so loves me, he showed me light.
For he so loves me, he showed me love.
For he so loves me, he taught me to love.
For he so loves me, he called me his child.
For he so love me, he forgave my sins.
For he so loves me, he gave me hope.
For he so loves me, he set me free
For he so loves me, he said, I am his.
For He So Loves You
By Jojo Ejonga
For he so loves you, he gave you life.
For he so loves you, he breathe life into you.
For he so loves you, he delivered you from evil.
For he so loves you, he took away your diseases.
For he so loves you, he showed you light.
For he so loves you, he showed you love.
For he so loves you, he taught you to love.
For he so loves you, he called you his child.
For he so love you, he forgave you sin.
For he so loves you, he gave you hope.
For he so loves you, he set you free
For he so loves you, he said, you are his
For He So Loves Us
By Jojo Ejonga
For he so loves us, he gave us life.
For he so loves us, he breath life into us.
For he so loves us, he delivered us from evil.
For he so loves us, he took away our diseases.
For he so loves us, he showed us light.
For he so loves us, he showed us love.
For he so loves us, he taught us to love.
For he so loves us, he called us his children.
For he so love us, he forgave our sin.
For he so loves us, he gave us hope.
For he so loves us he set us free
For he so loves us, he said, we are his.
-For he so loves us all, he gave us LOVE-
English:
Emotional Man
By Jojo Ejonga
Baby,
Please be conscious of what I feel inside, due to degrading situations which gave me even more pride.
To stay rock steady through most emotional ordeals, then to sort through all the falsehoods and still be real.
Most people choose not to acknowledge certain issues pretending to be blind — I choose to acknowledge these issues keeping you close at mind
What might have been hard for the world, only you understand the unique spiritual binding when having an emotional man.
Even though society portrays man as tough, all emotion they’ll deny– Well, I’m here to let you know about when it’s rough, even men do cry.
By me being so blunt to speak, I hope you didn’t find this hard to chew. For all these momentous emotions were inspired by only you
So, when you sit down with your girlfriends, let them know you’ve got a story to tell – – about your thirst for love that’s been quenched by the man with the deepest well…
Spanish:
Hombre Emotional
By Jojo Ejonga
Cariño,
Por favor ten conciencia de lo que siento dentro, por causa de una situación de graduada que meda aun mas orgullo.
Para mantenerme como una roca ante todas las situaciones emocionales, entonces separar todas las falsedades y mantenerme verdadero.
La mayoria de gentes opta no reconocer ciertos asuntos pretendiendo estar ciegos, yo escojo reconocer esos asuntos manteniendo te a ti siempre en mi mente.
Lo que para el mundo puede ser difícil solo tu lo entiendes, la unidad espiritual única cuando se tiene a un hombre emocional.
Aunque la sociedad presenta al hombre como fuerte, ellos niegan todas las emociones- pues yo estoy aquí para dejarte saber cuando es difícil, aun el hombre llora.
Es poro que mi forma tan directa de hablar, no sea difícil de asimilar para ti, porque todas esta emociones tan significantes me las inspiraste tu.
Así es que cuando te sientes con tus amigas, diles que tienes una historia que contar – acerca de tu sed de amor que has sido saciada por el hombre con el manantial mas profundo.
The Provocateur
By Jojo Ejonga
-Why I Write-
I write to inspire feelings, thought, and desires.
Most importantly, I write because, I aspire to invoke this feelings for you:
My readers.
I like to strike a nerve — as a disruptor “Provocateur” when my readers (You) reads it.
I love the state of “what does he mean” or “who is this meant for” or ” I get it and I need more of it”.
My mission is complete when you are left to want for more, either clarity or more of the sweetness of what I write
Descriptive Statement.
Please, Take Me Back
By Jojo Ejonga
Calling me crazy, stupid, selfish, or even foolish for letting the love of my life go is a fair criticism. Mi amor, letting you go was the greatest mistake I have ever made, a mistake any partner would regret.
But I promise: there will never be a repeat of such a mistake.
I promise never to let you go again, My love. For I have learned a real lesson, the ultimate lesson — in the hardest way.
72 hours ago you left my sight, something I should have never allowed to happen.
But foolishly, I did.
–What a travesty–
I should have loved you and been there for you.
I should have made you feel like a queen, and treat you like the queen that you are.
I should have cherished you, cared for you, and been your lover, but I wasn’t — giving you:
Unrequited love.
Seventy two hours feels like an eternity without you by my side — sleepless nights, restless days, racing thoughts, a pounding heart, an empty stomach and tearful eyes is how my days have been without you, my precious jewel.
I am helpless, my days are hopeless, my soul is miserable, and shattered I sit facing judgment, tortured from the power of love, from the pain of love, and from the consequences of tampering with pure love.
I complain not, Mon amour. Rather, I seek that you take me back for the sake of our love. For I promise to devote my heart to you, and love you unconditionally to the end of time.
Nakupenda, Honey, please take me back mon cheri, parce que Je t’aime avec toute mon coeur.
A Twisted Irony
By Jojo Ejonga
-For the worst of the worst-
What a twisted Irony for anyone to even think that it is a good idea to subject or sentence a child to Life without the Possibility of Parole, or even due facto life sentence.
Such a sentence should be left for the worst of the worst, AKA. Serial Killers, like:
“The green river killer” etc..
Touching on the Brain Science. Studies has shown that youth brain are not fully developed until their mid to late 20s. Undermining the youth/kid culpability abilities.
Knowing those facts and knowing that Prison is one of the most Trauma Inducing places ever created.
Now the question is Why should we subject our kids to such arbitrary sentences, regardless of the severity of what they’ve done?
I really don’t get it.
Wasn’t the main goal for a prison sentence supposed to be a punishment that leads to improvement and rehabilitation, rather than a retributive injury to a person’s life? Which is what Life without the possibility of parole does to a young kid.
This is an injury that must not be allowed to be inflicted on kids, it is itself an abuse, inhumane, immoral, and a dangerous path to follow, which would only take us backward, rather than forward.
The question I pose is: Should we choose the path forward or backward? Should we choose the path that incarcerates our kids and young ones for life, or choose the path that set them free, gives them education that they really need, and show them the love and affections they truly deserve, which in the long run will help them stay safe and out of trouble.
Which one should we choose?
I respectfully submit that we choose and stand with the latter, because it is the humane thing to do for our future generation!
I conclude by saying this: IF YOU ARE TO PUNISH A MAN RETRIBUTIVELY, YOU MUST INJURE HIM. IF YOU ARE TO REFORM HIM, YOU MUST IMPROVE HIM. AND MEN ARE NOT IMPROVED BY INJURIES. Quoting George Bernard Shaw.
Solitary Confinement of Youth
By Jojo Ejonga
(The nightmare of solitary confinement.)
On average, those warehoused in US prisons for the ‘first time’ are in their late teens, and early twenties. Take that and consider the institutional aggression cultivated in young folks as they’re punished with and cooped up in prison for misbehaving.
Prisons employ solitary confinement as a tool to punish misunderstood youths’ cry for an outlet. They need a proper outlet to channel their natural passions. Instead, many youth rot away in the “hole,” aging into oblivion.
Just imagine a young person who comes to prison for a single charge. He is still somewhat innocent. A few months into his sentence he gets into a fight and is sent to the “hole” (a cell in administrative segregation). He spends six months locked in a metal and concrete windowless room, only being allowed out three times a week for one hour.
As further punishment, his security level is raised from minimum security to maximum security. He must now survive in a more aggressive security level, having to practice violence to match the ultra aggression of the most violent. These mental adaptations have long-lasting impacts.
Now, violence is a necessary practice that recycles him back to the “hole,” except now for longer stints. The once-innocent youth is transformed into a violent product of his prison habitat. What is more aggravating is that a young person like him – after prison’s tough, degrading experiences – is tossed back into the streets with 40 dollars and expected to succeed.
Imagine that.
He’s expected to succeed after being unnecessarily exposed to a series of ruthless experiences with little to no help to address the negative behaviors and emotions that led him to prison and have only metasticized?!
Imagine him coming back to prison after causing more harm to others and himself. Say he’s arrested for several new ‘more serious’ charges, not to mention violating the terms of his probation. Unfortunately, this cycle of state-sanctioned decay is all too common and is an unfortunate reality for countless youth. It’s perpetrated by the State in the name of so-called justice.
But for what? and why?
The psychological and physical effects of solitary confinement amount to torture, inhumane treatment, cruelty and undemocratic practices.
None of which should ever be allowed!
On a Memorandum dated September 13, 2021, titled: Elimination of Disciplinary Segregation. Washington State Department of Corrections Assistant Secretary for Prison Division. Michael Obenland, was forced to admit to the fact that: evidence has shown that solitary confinement has proven not to be an effective tool for corrections and disciplinary. But Washington State, and other U.S. States still practice this culture this inhumane culture
The evils of solitary confinement is not limited to the United States. It is an issue that extends far beyond US borders. It is worldwide.
So, as an activist and advocate for justice, my duty extends beyond US borders, to any nation, country, or territory where injustice and oppression rule.
Is It Worth It
By Jojo Ejonga
I am in a state of confusion.
A state, so strange to which I can’t describe.
A state, where my heart feels joyous, but normed at the same time.
I ask myself is it worth it?
Is it worth being in such a state, while waiting for the precious jewelry?
I lean on “Yes”
Yes for love.
Yes for the priceless jewelry.
Yes for the precious queen.
Yes for the glamorous angel.
While I find myself unsuccessfully attempting to overcome my confusing state of mind, fooling myself to believe that I am not falling in love!
So, I ask, what is the solution?
The solution to this confusion, is the source of the confusion –ITSELF–.
“The Precious jewelry”.
I am Jojo’s
By Jojo Ejonga
I am JoJo’s, the big potato, you can find me in Idaho!
My kids are French fries, like a jack in the box surprise.
You can get them Curly or straight, with Bacon or with cheese, and
they are best served from mickey D’s.
My grand babies are tater tots, and taco town is the best spot to get them!
Kindness
By Jojo Ejonga
Some might say that others take their kindness for weakness.
But I say, kindness can be transformative to a person’s life– So please, never hesitate to show kindness to others, even to those whom you think are undeserving of such kindness.
Always be willing to lend a helping hand. You may be the only one who cares enough to reach out…
Doing so, you are extending to a person something great and powerful–
“LOVE”
Which we all need.
For love is powerful, and in power there is might and strength. For weakness is the opposite of power, might and strength.
That said, your act of kindness is not a weakness. It is the ultimate manifestation of love.
It is strength.
A Confession of Him Who Loves Crazily
By Jojo Ejonga
At the sound of your voice, my heart, my soul, and my body melts like gold dropped in a furnace.
In your presence, at your sight — staring at your angelical eyes, my heart, stops, my soul leaves my body — comatose here I am, my heart cries!
Is it love,
or
Is it lust?
It is your beauty,
or
Is it your heart that causes such a celestial reaction?
These are questions I asked myself — then it hit me,
“NO”
you aren’t confused, you are just “Crazily In love”.
Call this my love confession — I admit it is, because I am Him Who Loves Crazily!
I am in love, I am crazily in love with you, I am so in love that — I can’t even explain how I feel.
I have never been a wordless person, I have never shyed away letting a lady know how I feel, nor have I ever frozen in front of a lady!
But honey, something about you captivates my heart and my soul. My heart seeks your love, even if I have to sacrifice everything I have for your love my angel — your love is worth such a sacrifice!
If love was a crime, count me in as guilty as charged for love, not any kind of love honey — your love, your love alone Mon Amour!
I conclude my confession with these short words Mon amour:
You are so beautiful, that your beauty is unmatched,
You are so kind, that your kindness is incomparable,
and I love you so much, that my love for you is infinite.
Surely, this is not lust, it is “TRUE LOVE”.
Conversation with My Heart
By Jojo Ejonga
(Me)
Should I Run — Should I Run –Should I Run, I ask myself!
(Heart)
Quiet and be still, my heart commands me:
Why run, what are you afraid of? — a question from my heart.
(Me)
I can not explain how I feel, nor do I comprehend why my heart is swimming in the ocean of confusion — I responded.
(Heart)
Your state of confusion is normal — my heart said to me.
You are not confused, you are falling in love,
Actually,
you are madly in love — says my heart.
Take comfort,
Don’t run — embrace it,
for love is a beautiful thing!
(Me)
Thank you heart, If you are broken, or even shattered, it is your fault!
Life
By Jojo Ejonga
Life is precious, priceless, and valuable so treasure it, and take it not for granted.
Life is sweet, but short therefore live it with care, while enjoying each day you leave.
Life could be hard, but that isn’t a call for discouragement when hardship present itself.
Life is unpredictable often presenting us with unexpected test, sometimes unbearable, but keep your head up high and knowing that giving up must never be an option.
Regardless, neither the hardship of life, nor its length outweighs the “Beauty” of this precious thing we call “Life”.
Life is sweet, life is beautiful, just like “You”.
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