A year ago

A year ago…I stepped on stage for the first time

it was December 10th…2009…A Thursday night…

That day at 17pm I’d had stumbled upon a flyer which said: “Johnny Hoes 2nd Poetry Night…(with Open Mic)” Location: Jimmy Woo, Amsterdam.

….and I said to myself…its now or never…..

now this is the part where you’d expect me to say: “and the rest is history”

but…history…is in the making

…that night…just stands for the beginning of a new era…

and the birth of Sleepy The Poet….

As I write…

I don’t socialize
Instead I silently write, turn my thoughts into rhymes
I speak to myself…yeah…I’ve got a mumbling mind

that’s how I suddenly find,

troubles I once hid but I chose to no longer hide

Now I deal with what bothers my mind…

no escape,

we debate

I Regulate…and finally decide

…I translated my thoughts…

Electric pulses, gathered  sources…translated by my hand holding a pen…

as I see the ink flow…I understand…nah…I know…what my mind is saying…

and the words that I need…those are the exact ones that my pen is laying.

Sometimes my own rhymes make my hair stand up
…yeah supersaiyan…

look…

All that I’m saying
Is that blur becomes clear and darkness turns bright

…as I write