IT RODE

BY AMIR’WHADI

It rode into my

Nightmare on a steed called crime.

A night to stand beside

me in this, my darkest time.

I know not a way to repay

the night.

            All I have to offer him

is that which he has saved.

            MY LIFE. |  AH

AMIR’WHADI WAS BORN AND RAISED IN TULSA, OKLAHOMA — HOME OF BLACK WALL STREET, CHARLIE WILSON, AND THE GAP BAND. HE IS AN ENTREPRENEUR, SONG WRITER, AND ARTIST.