The Unwritten Word

By McKinley “Blakghost” Bundick Jr.

A book of religious inspired poetry, The Unwritten Word touches on overcoming adversity through poetry. I remember hearing a bunch of my friends saying they were spiritual, just not religious. I examined their claims and their outlook on spirituality and religion and that is where I got the title, The Unwritten Word. I believe the word is in us and it is up to us to continue to write the truths on how God has affected our lives. These poems are merely Psalms in my book of life. Something I decided to write to release the pain of life and help those who may be going through similar situations. The Unwritten Word is a collection of poems for people who were, like me, too timid to look to the heavens to find their strength. Inspired by events of my life and my many questions about my religion and the people in it, I wrote these poems to help those who may have been confused like I once was. These poems are not just poems but stories in rhyme form. My late father was the inspiration for me to write this book of poetry. I hope everyone enjoys it, just as much as he did.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 2, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496943729

McKinley “Blakghost” Bundick Jr.

McKinley Bundick, Jr, also known as Blakghost, has had a passion for writing since he was young. His drive to never quit and finish what you start was instilled in him by his late father. To him he owes many thanks. A poet long before he became an author, his love for poetry goes back the poems he would write to help him get through the harshness of teenage life. His inspiration came from learning the renaissance poets and the ancient African poets and even the old English poets and the way they told stories. The way they wrote was so fascinating to him that he often tries to embody the love and pain of his past as well as his ancestors to tell a story in his poetry. The poetry you will find is from a writer with no filter for his sins. McKinley finds accolades in the hearts and smiles of the people who read and enjoy his work.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

In The Beginning

In The Beginning

Afraid

What If

In Other Words

The Word

How To Fear God

Life Happens

Sheep to the Slaughter

Poems Of Dedication for McKinley ‘BIG MAC’ Bundick, Sr.

The Carpenter

Happy Valentine’s Day

Jade Andwele

Worried

Knowing Your Own Mortality

Poems of Prayer and Proclamation

My Dreams

Special

Unanswered Prayers

Storm coming

Poems Of Love

I Love Her

Good Thing

My Perfect Rib

Tithes & Offerings

Extorting The Storehouse

Televangelism

Words of Inspiration

Survival of the fittest

PeaceMakers

Not As Sad As I Used to Be

The Chosen Path

Thoughts to Myself

What happened

The Benediction

Real Poets

I Wonder

A Ghost Prayer

The Unwritten Word

The Epilogue

Quotes To Live By

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An immortalization of words

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Dedicated to:

McKinley Big Mac Bundick, Sr.

(Loving: Son, Husband and Father)

It is said that poets can immortalize you with words. So don’t make a poet angry, nor should you love a poet too much. Well, if that is true, this book is the immortalization of my father.

Though, this book didn’t start out as a tribute to my father, it kind of ended up as one after he passed. When pops got sick in February 2012 I couldn’t write anything. I spent so many nights crying myself to sleep, trying to remember my father’s words: Boy don’t worry about me, I’ll be fine. No matter how tough times seemed to get, things would always be fine; no matter how often I would worry myself about ‘little things’ and to me, those little things seemed astronomical, but if you asked my dad, it would be fine. The worry’s I have about this book, I try not to worry about because he would tell me: Boy it’s going to be fine. My father was my biggest fan, country to his core; an Eastern Shore boy where short answers were sometimes best explained a situation. He was to me, the model parent. Him and my mother meshed well, though sometimes it didn’t seem like it. I’m glad they were my parents. He was always thinking, he always found a way to make a way. Like I said, tis book didn’t start as a book dedicated to my father but it kind of just ended up like this.

This book started out as a book of poetry questioning religion. Poems about me trying to work my religious beliefs and why I was the way I was. But through it all, my pops helped me through this process. I started to trust God, I started to let go and let God. Even to the point of his death, because I don’t view it as God taken something from me, but he gave something. I lost my will to write when my father was sick, now I have reason, my father’s death gave my life new meaning. He wanted me to learn to be my own man, so I’m trying to take the lessons he gave me and apply them and share them with the world.

I wish everyone could’ve met him so I decided to immortalize him, with my words!

ENJOY!

IN THE BEGINNING

..was…

IN THE BEGINNING

"In the beginning…

The earth was without form and void

and darkness was upon the face of the deep…"

So in the beginning… before God said let there be

was the vast vacuum of the cold dark abyss

eons before the THOUGHT of this universe could be DRAFTED into existence

there was the myth versus the reality of our existence!

And unknown to the future known inhabitants of the cosmos

was an Unknown Being who may or may not have existed,

An all-knowing all-spark that could spark the big bang

before words meant anything.

The beginning gave birth to the thought, of speculation.

That no one being could forge the cosmos out of nothingness,

that no one could move across the vast emptiness of space and time

before there was space and time!

Because, once upon a time, we were polytheist,

then we left the God’s Babylon and became monotheist

and the monotheist believe the myth to be reality.

That in the beginning an all-powerful being achieved what we deem unachievable.

We called it a miraculous miracle,

boasted and bragged, then told a world of polytheist that they had been worshiping all wrong,

and they were either going to get with the God of Jacob

or watch as our El Shaddai proves that they’ve been worshiping idols in Babylon.

But the skeptics…

believe the reality to be myth

looking for tangible evidence to prove a higher power exist

trying to prove if life came from either God, Aliens or Physics.

That either we came from the words of the Great I AM,

forging something out of nothing

or disbelief in the belief that the big bang was sparked from nothing,

but for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction