Derek Gincoo

Random Rhymes

I’m feeling the pressure like an unprepared professor at their very first lecture,  as my anxiety begins to build and tests my will I discover what are my tendencies that time has instilled,  it’s like I’m a stranger to myself who has issues with mental health and no instruction manual on my bookshelf,  looking back […]

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Honest Mistake

Derek pulls up to a red light on a dimly lit back street as he is making a pizza delivery. It’s about roughly 930 pm on a Thursday night, clear skies and the moon is fully lighting up the night sky. As he waits for the light to change from red to green, his cell

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On the Edge…

“Hey man, calm down. You don’t have to do this.” A man yells from a distance. As D stands there with his eyes swollen with tears. “It’s ok man things are going to be ok,” says the police officer as he slowly, slowly steps closer to D. D shouts, “Y’all have no clue what I’ve

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Argumentative

You the worst, you ain’t shit, you took my heart and abused it, you took my time and used it, I lost my mind with you, I don’t feel as fine with you, guys tell me all the time cuz I’m with you, all I do is make sacrifices, what have you given up, if

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Confidence

I’m in love with the woman of my dreams,  The problem is that I can’t seem To hold on to her,  She comes and goes like seasons,  But I feel like at times,  she’s been corrupted by others’ thoughts and views,  and disregards the things that I believe in,  and When I wake up in

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Bad Navigator

My hands are on my back and my shoulders,  the temperature is getting cold but my heart is so much colder, I don’t have anyone to pick me up when I need some lifting,  but the empty whiskey bottles leave me with a good feelin,  as I ride down the long road,  my path of

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Pressure

You keep pushing me away,  you keep pushing me to do things I don’t want to do,  you put me in this place,  I’m supposed to have this happy home,  but when I’m at home I feel like such a stray,  taking it day by day,  searching the internet to see if I’m the right

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Why Do I?

Why do I feel alone Whether it’s my parents not wanting me to make the same mistakes they made even though I’m on a completely different path or have unrealistic expectations that I could never live up to Or maybe because my sex drive and confidence are as low as they ever could have been

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Adulthood

Here are a few things that I’ve realized in my adult life. No one gives a fuck about you while you’re here. But when you’re gone they speak so good of you or ask the lord why did he take you so soon. And it’s the same if you’re not dead but just not in

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Dark Times

Being pushed away and forced into isolation by the ppl I’m close to including myself, especially when the world I live in makes me feel like I’m never good enough it tough, I can’t shed a tear because I’m a man, I cant complain because that makes me weak, I cant talk about it because

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