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Gymnastics Olympia

Hooray for Gabby, with so much physique

A true visionary of great intent

Who leaped high toward victory

With a unique routine that could beat

Engineered all odds with twist vault turns

Tumbling on to achieve world gold

Her passion foretold with utmost class

Energy and finesse, the dignity she expressed

As she made her mark in Olympic history

A world all around gold athlete is born

Being Born Black

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When God made man black

He gave man the gift of courage

He gave man the gift of strength

He gave man the gift to lead

He gave man the gift of endurance

God made man black for a reason

To glow with the moon and

To shine with the sun

Vigelence
She lived in honesty, as was loved by many
She left with good intentions, a blessing bestowed
For her family, she left a legacy of strong visionaries,
A reflection upon her pride that left her mark to remember
We shall not forget she cared enough, a mercenary and a vigilant
Her soul reenacting love by so many touched by her heart

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Black Fate

I often reflect on history

I am reminded of where I stand

I am told I am not equal

That my skin is inferior

God gave me strength, yet,

I am incapable of sustaining life riches

Hope to be misunderstood for imposition

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Black like Me

I am as black

As the ocean

Pure as air

Gentle as a rose

Soft as grass

I am black

As tar

Smooth as sand

Perky as a wild thorn

Childlike as the sun

Hip Hop Bird

His feathers were grey

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His beak was black

He would flap his wings

He would bounce his body

He would whistle to the beat

In harmony to African music

And I swore he had black in him

Whitney Houston

When we have forgotten our youth

Our glory fades in all reason

We have forgotten our dreams

To remind us who we are

When we have lost all hope

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We remember how her voice would carry

And how her words created peace in our hearts.

Granma
She lived in honesty, as was loved by many
She left with good intentions, a blessing bestowed
For her family, she left a legacy of strong visionaries,
A reflection upon her pride that left her mark to remember
We shall not forget she cared enough, a mercenary and a vigilant
Her soul reenacting love by so many touched by her heart

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In My Own Little World

I lie hidden
underneath this mass
ovations trickling high
consumed within my own world
a metaphor for an alibi
I lie hidden
underneath this mask
identify a hidden past
muddled confusion; a simile
of failed accomplishments
to be misunderstood
in a world full of progress

To Dream

is hope an infringement of life
where as an inspired metaphor
depleted a reason to grow
Is hope so defile in life
that a dream is deferred
upon the wish to succeed
is only a dream
Is hope so denied

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that every ..me you try
you trying, trying again
to start all over again?
Is hope so bi..er
that your dreams are over looked
because no one understood you?

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Hate Poem

the narcissism in color an addic..on
quota of being lynched
no one cares to pay a..en..on
no one trust a basket case
and as the color exists
white sheets, black painted faces
a mere reflec..on of being whipped
nobody‟s perfect un.. l caught
it is difficult to speculate the risk involved
the general, values of this imposi..on
is irrela..ve to pain

A Man Crying

Vicious white sheets
hovering hoods
in darkness
bow admi..edly
speaking hate
adamant controversy
praising glory and
a burning body
agile hanging

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from a tree
crying murder

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A Dream Deferred

• is hope an infringement of life
where as an inspired metaphor
depleted a reason to grow
Is hope so defile in life
that a dream is deferred
upon the wish to succeed
is only a dream
Is hope so denied
that every ..me you try
you trying, trying again
to start all over again?
Is hope so bi..er
that your dreams are over looked
because no one understood you?
Is hope a simile to believe
in all hope, life and maturity
to succeed
is hope the dream you believed
that dream and it became true
Hair is an Emblem

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my hair
the imagery of me
represen.. ng wigs
that make me
my hair
the vulgar, hip style weave
that others recognize the women in me
my hair
go natural go curly afro
fits the need to be bold
my hair

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one day long, the other day short
or maybe one day I will wear it bald
my hair
is what makes me, my personality
my hair is a status symbol to go freely

I Pledge Elegance to Our Flag

The thirteen stripes for valor
the original colonies fought for
red they died and white for peace
the fi..y one stars united we stand
a trilogy to sustain one common belief
for freedom, world peace and honor
my allegiance to the American flag

Day Hypo

Full mom arisen
sunlight dances between ..me
full moon resending
My happiness at day break
amending sleepy a dreams

Memorial of Tony

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I wonder I always wondered
where life is a.. er death
my brother I bother to wonder
is he safe in heaven
what are his interest
who are his friends there

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if he is ok with God
if so if he could send a sign
how to make peace with him above
to say I am sorry he is not with me
if I could trust his ambi..ons to leave
that he trusted God his soul
alo.. in a be.. er place
and will he wait for me
I wondered always wondered, wondered, wondered

Say My Name, Lover

a word
has so much meaning
just call out my name
and ask me again
and tell me who it belongs to
and repeat it over and over again
just call out my name
make it purr when you say it

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repeat it un..l you mean what you say
like you enjoy it connota..on
do not make me a pet name
call out my real name
un..l you not want no other
like you mean you need me
I remind you of your mom
we have the same name
so do not forget the word in my name
has poten.. al meaning
it is not only a word
it becomes a moratorium

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The Gospel Music

I heard a song
just the other day
that made me feel
the other way
the song had sound
the song had meaning
it captured my heart
le.. it just a bea..ng
the drums were so compelling
it made my feet thump
my hands clap
my soul rejoiced
I began to laugh
the song was so good
it moved me so much
I had to play it again
to reach my soul
so gospel has it

Daily Rou..ne

I awoke at five
the everyday rou..ne

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I prepared for work
I fixed lunch, ate breakfast
and rushed for traffic
I drove at 35 miles per hour
a forty-five minute drive to work
I paced myself to my offi ce
and coned to morning coffee
I read my email, the news
and peddled to do work
I greeted my students with a smile

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and at the end of day
I met evening traffic
pacing myself home
to study homework
to eat dinner and go to bed
my daily rou..ne

My Love

I miss your touch
the caress that made me smile
gave me chills down my spine
I miss the kiss
that made me gasp
the memory of your tender lips
pressed warm against mine
I miss your stare
our eyes met as one whole
the thought I felt true love
I miss your empathy
towards my immaturity
that made me strong
I miss saying our last good by
enchanted, I sigh

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I love you

Suicide Thoughts

I do not like quiet
my thoughts race of suicide
it is my inability to conceive thoughts
process, progress denial in quiet
I lie s.. ll mor..fied in frustra..on
I pop pills to infl ict pain
so my body cries pain
the pain that subsides in memory of being hurt
I lie quiet s..ll ..ll death becomes me inside

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quiet I hear voices chan..ng in my mind
at my moment of peace I lie s.. ll quite
a moment of silence I dri.. in dreams
of being far off not here in paradise
I lie s..ll quiet I lie s..ll

The Legacy

we grew through sound
at an early age
popping the dance beats
on the radio, through the streets
words through mellow tunes
a passages and a historic relic
Mao legendary pop ar..st
the notes flu..er ..me

I Have a Dream

It is a world where technology was possible to every man
I once dreamed of human mobility
It is a world where educa..on did not discriminate
Where the state of man was comparable
It is a world where health care is inevitable

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I once dreamed of peace
Have a Dream
I once dreamed of human evolu..on
It is a world that created opportunity for man
Where equality of every man was probable
It is a world where we solved problems through minds not killing
Where is a world ridden of poverty
It is a world free of hatred and denial
A world free of sin

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On Being Black

On Being Black
As I pass by all the smears of betrayal
As I stand you, clutch your bags in fear
As I shop, you say I s..ll
As I greet you, you ask if it is a con game
As I socialize, you think I am gay
As I test in school, you wait for me to fail
As I interview for a job, you check my background
As I go to the doctor, you test for drugs
As I pray at church, you say I am not religious
As I speak, you are in disbelief
As I achieve, I pose a threat
As I willfully do, you monitor my strange behavior
As I live day by day, you call the police
As I try my best, you show I am inferior

Crush

How I love thee
As enchanted as .. me passes
You are forever in my memory
Through every sen..ment sigh of retrieval

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Compassion expels happiness
Valued in each kiss
I yearn for your warm caress
Missing the sen.. mental token
An epiphany of treasure unspoken
In cap..vated by words of choice
That persuade meaning
In how I conceive you
My heart thrust compassion
Consumed in lust
In dire need of every mood

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My soul craves harmony
In unity of a companion
Who cares for me
Failing to meet your desires
You beat me with your fist
You curse me with your anger
You train my mind to obey
I cannot handle my fate
Before I lie dead in your possession

Poor Volvo No Venire

Des pies de venire
Hacky ulna pregunta
Espier venire

Faith

May your soul be filled with God‟s wisdom
To become an appren..ce of faith
May your heart be touched by nature,
To live by God‟s words of hope
To encourage others to be followers of God
Where hate is abandoned in fear of God

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To be a protectorate from evil
To defend the belief of the Church
Where young minds can understand God‟s leadership
For religious purposes of a spiritual creed
That defends the na..on against wrongful deeds of hate
Where fate in God leadership to promote world peace
May God protect the female holy veil for equality
Open her eyes, Open her soul to the covenant of God
May men be teachers, May men be leaders, May men be role
models
Of the family, Of the community, Of the church
May man think of Church as an audacity of hope of the family
To an..cipate the love and guidance of social freedoms
May God guide me from sin, As I live this journal to heaven.

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Disappear

I‟m gone disappear
Vanish in the clear
Float on a breeze
Glide over countries with ease
I have the slightest of anything
But the challenge...the uncertainty is so bi..er-sweet, so en..cing
Hopefully, I‟ll find what has been calling me
My hearing full of water and my peripheral clouded, and I just can‟t
see
I know it‟s great, it has to be, to call to me for ages
Through puberty, through yearnings, and through love, the sound
of the
call has never faded.
It‟s not easy
Believe me
to leave known precious and stable fruits, in search of my own
unknown fruits and treasures
Will my experience or my educa..on qualify me? Will they measure?
Will arithme..c calculate the steps it takes to lead my parched body
to the purest of streams?
My thirst unbearable. Where I see thousands of ripples of coolness
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shimmering sparkles as they beckon and reach for me, yet madness
is my dream
Maybe my light will shine
And maybe...just maybe, I‟ll follow this ..me
I‟ll never know when my calling will cease to call, whether the ..me
is far or near all I know is, I‟m gone disappear.

The Children

The faces in the picture smile
Hurt shines in their eyes
Pain and agony hidden deep

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Years of regret kept secret
A true story that is never told
The past hidden so well
Hearts that cried each day
With no protec..on from the hate
Tiptoeing on broken glass
While trying to stay invisible

The Search for Truth

When was the last ..me...?
Our big, black fist grappled over the fear of losing something,
something... s..ll the pendulums of .. me scan..ly fl ings sand.
The .. mes con..nue.
When was the last ..me...
Our strong scarlet red groped for the apathy of losing
something, something... yet, s..ll the drums pound from the
desserts of Africa at Verba..m?
And are not herd.
When was the last ..me...
Our feeble minds and our weak souls had spoken distorted truths
about our people‟s past and of who are and what we believe
fatefully.
Oh... how the soul parts.

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Amore, Prayer of Succession

Once more,
Give me the chance to follow
And I‟ll let Him lead.
Break me from my faith
And I‟ll en..ce you with his words
Withdraw me from pride
I will tender you with kindness

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Forbade me from all truths
my mind will forbade you to induce
For Almighty God, is the
precursor of succession.

America Prosperity

Like a turtle in its hollow shell
Like a bird scoring over the heavens
My soul wants to escape into
hopes and dreams
in a journey away from sin
I will never be alone
I will never be alone
I will run with your love,
God, Leading the way from sin
and I shall follow,
You understand,
your presence means a lot to me.

America Speaks

I remember my struggle
defending who I am

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I felt all alone, with no purpose
You made me faithful with your
heart and your love, all-powerful God
you entered my soul and made me whole
in my sickly mind, your Spirit prepares me
for the future, I rejoice
for you to judge my life
with the lives of others,
your Spirit faithfully
reigns over the world.

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Walking with God

I will be there to the end. O Lord
Because you were there for me in
My ..mes of needs
You protected me, guided me
Raised me from sin in your honor
You drew me near to love
tall in nature
of you recrea..on let me be
redeemed eternally with your
permission I will rise
I will shine in your presence, O Lord
I will be there to the end.

American Patrio..sm

Faith...
is enveloped in aspiring dreams
through fate alone; a purpose
a republic commi..ed to principles...
Which ques.. on fear?
Democracy guidance...
For a government - to call to freedom

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Ask for Trust in which the government stands
for the cons..tu..on speaks of holy guidance.

What a Word Implies

Civil Rights are when...
A word is a symbol that can be used out of context.
To define a word is to emphasize meaning.
A word can be a metaphor or simile or a gesture.
A word can be used to describe.

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The fights for equality means equal access.
To define equality means to inherit opportunity:
Opportunity to value a good educa..on.
Opportunity to have a good founda..on.
Opportunity to have the freedom once denied.
Such words display hatred and degrada..on.
We should not call each other a “Niger.”

The Legacy Con..nues

One day African Americans
Will become Physician Assistants
One day Coloreds
Will become Teachers
One day Negros
Will become poli..cians
and school Administrators
A Promise that one day Black people
Will be noted later for
their level of success

Prayer

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Never been on drugs
Never done weed
Never got drunk
Never had extract
Never been to prison
Never been with a man
Nor Women the tempta..on
Never exists
„40 and a virgin
Never had kids
Never wanted an abor..on
Never had sinned

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Never has stolen
Never has cheated
Never got chased
To live in paranoia
One thing I ever wanted
Is to live in prayer

Pray for a Reason

Pray, say a prayer
Pray for the light of God
To shine, shine through you
It does not ma..er who or what you are
Just thank heaven for life
And another life, a life,
Express your song, just pray
Pray for the reason the good granted by God
Pray, say a prayer for your condi..on
To shine, shine through you a plan
To give love, to share love, the meaning of love
Just pray, say a prayer
Prayer for the light of God
To come through to you
It does not ma..er if you are not good enough

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Praise, thank heaven for life you live
Pray, just pray and pray again for a chance
Live it over and over, to pray
Pray a song of light

My Soul

All the years of suffering that happened and my life my
soul stays strong and helps me fight the good fi ght. Free
to wonder like the wind that‟s tell god comes and free us
from sin. Only your soul knows who you really are Couse

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you are it and your body is a shell holding it and.it
doesn‟t ma..er what things you have most seal there soul to
on the things they have. Are souls are here to see how much
we can bear the pain. Tell the lord comes to see us
again. A true test of ..me how long will we last I ask?
Four ever Couse a life lost is a life reborn

Love

love is wonderful love is sweet love cannot be beat
ones you‟re in love its forever in your heart it is like the
summer sky in the night is like music to your heart it
makes your heart quiver it makes your shiver all over it
will take your breath away love is so wonderful love.

When you find that one

When you find that one you know that‟s the one when you find
that one you feel it in your heart when you find that one
your heart quivers like a chill when you find that one its
always and forever when you find that one you won‟t let that
fish go when you find that one hold on and don‟t let go un..l
death do you part it‟s that love you know it so when you
find that one always hold that soul mate close to your heart

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because your heart and the one above sent that one true love
to you.

Poem

The world is a quilt and each patch is a nation
Bound by a thread since the days of creation
Adorned with great color and radiant splendor
Though divided by race and religion and gender

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In some eyes, it is handsome, in others canto rated
The patches are different, unmatched and unsorted
Incongruous in pattern, in shape and in color
Not one is much similar to any other
So some try to imagine one great design
But in truth our uniqueness is really just fine
Nations and patches of all kinds and all sorts
Customs, religions, languages, sports
This is okay if each patch has its space
And on the quilt of the world, each nation has its place
But the stitches that bind us are easily shed
By the wars that are fought and the words that are said
We must realize the appearance of no patch is inferior
And the ways of no nation can make it superior
Divided by oceans, united by a dream
The world is a quilt and our love is its seam

Blacks in American History

Old age has caught up on me
Where wisdom is patiently counting dawn

Who am I? Am I the person who bathed you, played with
you and read you bed time stories until the wee hours of the night?

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Am I the person who coached you and supported you through your
journey? Others see me as bitter and cold.

And aint I an American?

Who am I? Am I the one that cooked you dinner and cleaned
the house while you were away? Am I the one that nursed you while
you were sick? Am I the one who obeyed orders and completed
good deeds? Others find me helpless.


Who am I? Was I your right hand man that made sure
everything was in order? Was I the one who followed orders
and went beyond call and duty? Was I the one who went beyond
adversity? Others find my faults.

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Who am I? Am I the one to respond to duty? It is my
patronage to follow and protect and test the waters while others
cannot. Others don‟t respect this.


Who am I? Am I the one God made strong enough to follow
in His path in this journey to be heard? I am an auntie. I am a child. I
am a teacher. I am a soldier. I am a child of God.


I walk like I am disabled
There is a monkey on my back
I carry the load of intolerance

I may be used
I may be abused
I have been lied on
I have been beaten
I may be lonely
I may be seduced

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And my prayers and dreams
Shattered the truth
But I am still here

American pursues a state of war that affected the lives of the people.
The war satin has changed this nation. Let support innovative
solutions to our problems:

..
Let‟s find solution to not end what we need such as social
security and Medicare. Let us raise the bar on healthcare that
will help everyone.

..
Let‟s not increase the debt ceiling.
..
Let‟s educate to create insight and occupational skills for

jobs tomorrow
..
Let‟s create technology to invent itself
..
Let‟s let research create venues for a healthy state
..
Let‟s not make our imports maximize our outposts
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Let‟s create jobs in the US where we can become external

consumers of trade

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Let‟s determine the differences between religion and
morality to challenge issues such as laws for gays, abortion,
civil rights, and immigration

Let‟s make history. Let‟s get our nation back on track.

Four Colored Girls,
I cry many tears of endearment
Many sleepless nights

I speak loudly in anger
Bitter harsh feelings of denial

Confusion asking for respect
When emotions lost its meaning

I cry many tears of rejection
Their words speak louder than words

I whisper, I whisper, I whisper words of wisdom
A freedom of expression
Pondering in fear

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I cry many years for forgiveness
I have wrongfully sinned

I pray for the strength to protect my soul
For my fate to determine its keeper

Woman‟s Voice: Happiness… is joy. Being able to share laughter
at your faults that are both embarrassing and demeaning. It means
to come to realization that God made humans that a couple has the
ability to mess up. It means to confront with each other‟s insecurities
to admit to your faults when you are wrong and praise glory when
you are right. Happiness means to accept each other‟s feelings to trust

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them. Happiness means to let your fate grow as whole.
Man„s Conscious: I wanted to confront you. It had been something
I held within for some time. I ask why I feel alone when we are a
couple. I want you to understand I miss the ways things went. Now,
I feel hurt in my heart. You come along with a different personality.
My child died and I feel things are different. We do not hang out the
way we use to. We do not talk like we used to and sex is not the same.
I feel why we can‟t talk this out. If you lost all reason for what we
have I must leave.
Woman‟s Voice: Sadness… is silence. To allow your feelings to
express anger. It is to feel anger is not in control. Where dramatic
outburst come from the heart asking to be forgiven. It is the ability
to cry out outburst for forgiveness to acknowledge your feelings are
heard. To cry is to say words you wanted to say and to feel the things
you could not feel alone.
Man‟s Conscious: Your ability to not love is my inability to trust you.
How can I allow us to grow when we distance ourselves? I feel you
do not want me to trust you after your child died, because, you shut
me out when I am trying to cope with him not being around. There is a
line between us, between fate and faith. If we are both willing to make
this choice, we must both be willing to walk the distance together.
The words we choose not to say, is what we fail in this relationship.
Woman‟s Voice: If you are the man I thought you were, the man I fell
in love with, I need you let me to love you.

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Man‟s Voice: I want to be a man. I am a man. As I reach this rite of
passage, I need you to be there cheering me on as my partner in life.
Silence…as the couple held each other and stared in each other eyes
in silence.

To My Unborn

Girl: Sorry I disrespected you. All the times I lived longing for your
daddy to step up to the plate, longing for your daddy to step up to the
plate, longing for your daddy to step up to the plate to claim you.
Boy: For I did not know of our Godly creation .Our baby is our own

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salvation.
Girl: Instead I saved you from the agony and distress before you were
born into poverty, abandonment and denial. I protected you from
neglect.
Boy: It is what I thought she wanted. It is about me. It is what only
she understands.
Girl: And when I inhaled life, I felt the taste of your breath when
I aborted you. I feel the selfish pain of guilt that I betrayed you. I
betrayed your father. I betrayed God.
Boy: It has always about me what she thought she wanted to have in
life.
Girl: I could not support you as a single mom.
Boy: I wanted us to grow together through fate to face rejection from
ignorance and betrayal. I wanted to be a daddy.
Girl: I wanted your daddy to be a daddy.
Boy: But so she kept you a secret. I am sorry for her decision was final
without much thought not knowing the inevitable of one day seeing
our child achieve.
Girl: I chose this path, to have an abortion, without reason but with
just cause. And if I see purpose through reasoning, wanting to tell
your daddy the secret that lies within me, our souls will be redeemed.
Many tears, many tears, many tears; I cry.

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Moral Obligation

I am an apprentice by faith,
And God is the master of wisdom.
Our covenant is the fellowship of passage,
Redeemed by His Holy Spirit.

I am a journey man by fate,
And God is the temperament.
Our convocation is through prayer;
Humbled by His image.

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I Believe,

Sometimes the greatest struggle
Is to find peace of mind
Sometime the mind goes astray
Only to find its way back to God

Teach me to crawl before I walk
Every step to heaven
So that I‟m born a revived Christian
Rising higher and higher to God‟s glory

I first knew God when troubled
Then again when found
Now I believe what glorious sight
I accept Jesus Now I believe

Oh I believe in the mercy of the Lord
He delivered me from evil
To praise His holy word
Oh I believe in the mercy of the Lord
I believe that I am saved
I believe that I am saved
I believe in the healing powers form sin

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I am humbled by the Lord
I am stronger by His ways
Oh I believe
Yes I believe
Oh I believe
Yes I believe

God I am thankful
For the gift of life
You alone have bless me
I thank you for giving me spiritual growth
To grow by the ability to love

Oh, yes, I believe

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Tennyson

The freezing shattering mist
Brought
Cold
Chills
Of heavy
Hallow
Winds
Yodeling death

Time

IL tiene Frio
Negro llama lepal
Au escribe tiepes.

2 B Luvd

2B
Is 2 luv
Y‟r own.

2 have

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Is 2 luv
Whats known?

2 luvs
Is a kind act
2 have shown.

2 live
Is to luv
Not 2 b alone.

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2 luvs
Is to b
N luv.

Playing Basketball

I like to dribble
Making the ball spin,
Up and down the court,
I‟m in for the win.

Right guard vault
Twist and turn offence
Defensively in opposition
Every team player‟s defense.

Got momentum
Got a way to score
Out for that extra point
Its game four.

The game is in opposition
Dysfunctional moves
The product of geometry

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Puts the game in move.

Across the court
Getting into action
An active team
Watch your reaction.

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Venelle

My poem travels through time
Its meaning is a math equation
Its contour is a painting

My poem has a journey
It speaks its voice heard
Through epitaph of reason

My poem is a scroll
It has many ordained laws
Its voice is a religious sound

My poem is a manmade river
It shares common ground
Its system relies on wording

My poem is a eulogy of thought
Its passage has character
Whose pretense relies on actors?

My poem is overwhelming
Too much to represent

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All within time
My poem is heaven sent

Shallow Reign

A narcissist is true
To girding thoughts.

He reaches beyond
To find his place
Will never get very far.

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He has many visions
Infinity to reason
Inability to invention.

Persona

I am clean as a whip
My workplace reflects my room
My room is roomy place
A to do list of chores
My laundry bent over the couch
Hangers loosed on the hang of trash
My shoes in organized piles
My bed covers in ruffles
Just stuff scattered on my desk
Makeup smudged on dresser
Lingerie stuffed in clambered dwars
My workplace is not a reflection of my room
All tidy kept away is my secret

Controversy

I feel the pain
Deeper and deeper

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It is not the same
My soul is its keeper.

I want to succeed
The fight is my flight
If only to proceed
You are always right.

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Sickness in my head
You are a user
Heartened expected
Lead me on bruiser.

I am out
Out, out.

Repass

The powerful are justified
The weak are humbled
The poor have wisdom
The lonely consumed in wealth
The sad are convicted
The insane are frightened
The mad are victims
The worrisome are impulsive
Society is dysfunctional

Hypo

Sunrise lifts above
Peaking, searching for life

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Rays shine through heaven

Fallen

I set to waited
Yearning for you to caller
You were delated
Folded time fallen
Advanced passes

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Hollered and rolled
Time goes on lessons
Looken at confesses
Looks kept on guesses

An Eagle

A whisk of wind whips
Soaring, gliding, wings sailing
Trailing over the horizon
Looking down on its prey
Keen eyes on looking onward
Wings a brisk selling downward
Towards the bottomless pit
Savoring the vegetation
It devoured a slimy, icky worm.

On Rhyme

Give me a minute
As I compose this rhyme
Until the poem is finished
If you‟ve got the time.

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I have been writing lyrics
At a drop of a dime
Thinking of a rhyme scheme
Written fine.

Written as it so seems
So tell me what I mean.

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Imagery

Coffee grounds shuttered
Herbal scent of as the aroma
Perked hot fuses of
Mildew titter tatting
Downstream pouring
Heavily molin drops into a
Small silver metal kettle

Figuratively Speechless

He, he, he
HIs eyes shined like diamonds
His body was hard as a rock
His dress represented his demeanor
His speech had much personality
His attitude was the embodiment of skills
He, he, he
He had class
He had repeal

Missing

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I miss all the times we shared
I miss you‟ve shown you cared
I miss how true you are
I miss because you are kind
I miss you because you make me laugh
I miss you when I am sad
I miss you are indeed so grand

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Temperament

Words you choose to say
Deception in disguise
Yet you fail to understand
Saddened by untrue lies
You have mistaken me for someone else
I felt you should have gotten to know,
Who and what I truly represent.
If you took the time to know me
Then you would see
That I am a child of God
Yes, it is really me
And what I perceive to be.

II

A Hugh of dark mist
Channels clouds into clusters
High above the heavens
God‟s hands clap
To justify reason
A beam of light strikes
Unto earths suffice

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Pellets of humid dew dance
Hurdling unto earth‟s crust
As God is its witness
The death toll has no mercy

III

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times,
It was the age of wisdom; it was the age of foolishness,
It was the epoch of belief; it was the epoch of incredulity,

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It was the season of Light; it was the season of Darkness,
It was the spring of hope; it was the winter of despair,
We had everything before us; we had nothing before us,
We were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct
The other way--in short, the period was so far like the present
Period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its
Being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree
Of comparison only.

The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o‟clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.

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Sonnet V

Who is the fairest of thy all?
For all thy beauty I am not worthy
Let our love be true the test of times
For what left to all are we left to prove?
Exons desire passion trove
Virtue is in prism for goodness show
To defeat all reason love to grow

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Gaze deep inside my heart
To see the sunshine over the bank
Natures call to fertility
As the planets move I dare not say
How fair love be fair game
All serenity will justify time

Let not our marriage fold
To admit virtue is a bond to mold
The fabrication of deceit and lies
Will not defeat purpose and all reason
Unity is our foundation
Through the just of times
To overcome the fear of doom
Let temperament be our canvass to longevity
To bear reason to gender fault
For love is a pendulum testing time

VII

Deep down in the heart of me
There is something disturbing inside
The image in ME must confide
Miss Notion not to be

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My heart is yours
You carry my soul
You carry my soul
You carry my soul
To serenity, to love, to unfold
My heart is yours
Forever to console
My heart is yours

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I am broken for our love
It figures our emotions would distant
Our feelings no longer consistent
Leaving it up to God above

VIII

Love will never end
I would make your dreams become true
Only if you would want me to
If your dream were to travel
I would sail around the world
To the depth of the ocean
We would enjoy the ride
If your dream were to fight for life
I would challenge death
To console your soul with prayer
To do what is right
If your dream were to be rich
I would empower your self esteem
And be an anchor to your dream
If your dream were to be a soldier
I would be your Sargent at arms
Protecting you from your enemy

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Guiding you from harm
If you dream were to fi nd fame
I would attract popularity
With gainful employment
With fame and popularity the same
If your dream were to fi nd peace
I would give you my soul
We would be in this together
Through rich or through poor
If your dream were to fi nd charity
I would give you my heart
Or love would be forever

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From sickness and health do we part?
If I could answer your prayer
I would give you my faith
Through all hope
Love will give or take
If man can dream
I would be your counterpart
To love, to hold, to Cherish
Forever love, forever love, forever love
XO, XO, XO, XO

VIIII

Every morning I hear the cry
Rested amongst sleep at 5 a.m.
Mourning the last cry of symmetry
Past the day‟s routine to return
To the same cry of warning
Debts survival of union within ones cult
To break in silence
The dog ate my cat.

Trees coveted the dirt rock road
With the scent of pine

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The long ridden trail to a familiar road
Snow covered trough hinted winter has arrived
The coyote has gone to rest in his cave
Wild hunting season is bountiful
Altered smoke fills the sky from farmhouse chimneys
Fish has gone for vegetation surrounding the frozen lake
Long I wait tile day is once dawn
I sleep for now
I dream

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Stood Up

The Beginning

A sigh of reprisal was an ambivalent cry
My aching heart dispels anger of being told no
Over and over again - the denial

The Middle

Longing for your acknowledgement
To be accepted into your realm of social life
I wait for your arrival to return my soul you took

The End

With every word lost in speech
I yearn to express the pain my heart feels
To not be loved by you

The Cult

Locked up
Ingrate minds

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Neglected by their peers
Just a matter of time
Papa don‟t claim him
Mamma can‟t save him
Bargain with his own life
Ill doctrine lessons off the street
Idle minds dwindles about their peeps
Money laundering swindles of what to keep
Hustling cash on the dime

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Got to get paid, got to get mine
Took another life an innocent child
Battling life‟s struggle
Gang bangers style
Hope I live to see 21

Holy Spirit

The silent stillness
of quiet hem;
is a supple grace
of the holy spirit.
As the Holy Ghost
is at service
to my soul.
To consume salvation;
to alter death;
where angels rise
and shadows rest.
And as the day ends
And gospel fades
A prayer inhibits

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a familiar beginning.

The Negara Saga of a Ghetto Queen

harassment and denial

from opposing religions

to either flunk her out

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or to face rational decisions
drive bays, car bombs, and parents threats
the unreachable child
had many regrets
angry crowds knock out car windows
vengeful gangs kicked in doors
all against one student from reaching
her educational goals
God would not judge her
but grant her creed

Cancer Cell

pneumonia first called its name within the walls of a cell. Blinded
pneumonia, carrier of disease that roamed an ill virus through various
blood cells. Horrific pneumonia, spectra merging through cellular
walls. A sickly virus from a destructive cold. Mania pneumonia that
marked itself in place a lymph node a cold, ill place where bacteria
roams to claim cancer. A pneumonia cell that spreads word to other
enzymes cancer has claimed a host called death. Death has no age
limit.

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Vegas Dreams (Spoken Word)

Out of Vegas, the city that never sleeps, where anything is possible.
That dreams are made of what inspires you. I am from what is
honorably known
as the West side in Vegas. My hood is home of the Crip. Some know
it as the ghetto
where many fear to be seen. My hood comes from where you don‟t
know how to act of the middle class - administrators, senators,
educators, athletes, police offi cers, gang
members, pedal pushers, drug addicts, erotica and the sons and
daughters of future Crip. The west side is affluently known for black
settlement in Vegas of the sixties. It is the home of the Moulin Rouge
where only the black stars had facilitation for entertainment and
where they were housed in its hotel. Vegas the home of the north town
blood. Vegas home of the south side Crip. It is all about zones. What
comes from the hood stays in the hood. The west side is a family
raised in a village. It is the doctrine of faith and value stood. The west
side is a community of faith where everyone knows his place, knows
where he comes from, knows how to speak and give back to the place
of residence. No relations to drive bays, gang bangers, homicides.
It is a unity of peace and love with who you identify with. Home of
the high dropout rate because youth can earn as much doing service
without a degree. Home of where schools were not desegregated

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until after 1978. Home of high teenage pregnancy rate, where baby
momma drama is a concern. Home where jail bait was 15 years adult.
Home where curfew was at 1 AM in the morning. Home of the block
parties where kids hung out in the street late nights to roam during
the summers. Home where athletes were not educated and could not
read after high school. Home where players had to be from another
country or mixed to be popular on the team. Home where drug dealers
can earn 30 grand selling drugs off the street. Home where prisons
hold the abundant youth due to social poverty. Home where there is
much fear of disaster. Home where there is much love. Home where
a college degree can mean something to the development of the
community and must not be taken for granted.

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Baby Momma Drama

It takes two to make a child
in desolate of ignorant minds
that led a child to conceive a baby

babies having babies
at the age of ten
haltering a child of own

delivered by a paramedic
snapping hips back
to console to secrecy

worried about being caught
vowed through deception
from an under aged teenager

a baby momma drama
how old, old enough to conceal child
inadequate mask

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to growing up too soon
from child to adult
a forced responsibility

somewhere out there
is a 30 something child
to a 40 then and some mother

whose child does not know who
their mother truly is?

Judgment

a fatal cry of deception

morally advised
Neglected by each emulated touch
fondling dreams of anger lie inside
Hazy, vivid memory
growing young in his possession

Disturbing images from abuse

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wanting to break through, to recover

from an oppressing manifestation

Stereotypes

Stereotypes, is that a gesture? Are you entitled to pass judgment based
on preconceived thoughts? Is the circulation of thoughts based on
rumors? Do you judge because you do not care to understand my
position? Is it because you never got to know me and do not care? Can
you really tell by first impression that I am different? Is it my outward
appearance, you base judgment that I fit those stereo types? Can you
tell by looking at me, what you do not like about me? Is it my outward
appearance you hesitate to retaliate towards? Must we bargain with a
liturgy? Is it something I said that you‟re against? Is it over something
someone said about me that has got you all fired up? Did I not follow
through based on your ideology of reasoning that frustrated you? Is it
right to judge, because of how I acted out that you must try to change
to your preferences? Shall I admit something is wrong with me? How
does one respond to stereotypes? I am who I am.

To Love one

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is
the emotion to love oneself; because one must love oneself in order to
allow others to love you. Love is feeling of greatness that you place
God above oneself; because God it the gatekeeper of your soul. Are
you
feeling me? Loving one means you are blessed that you feel good
about yourself and you are doing right by God. Loving one means
that you have an attitude of pride. You represent that feeling of
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soul. The way you carry yourself is how others will judge you. Love
God,
love life and love one.

Faith

May your soul be filled with God‟s wisdom
To become an apprentice of faith
May your heart be touched by nature,
To live by God‟s words of hope
To encourage others to be followers of God
May spiritual education open the door to a closed mind,
To not be perturbed of evil
To become enriched in fate to guide the blind
So he too may seek holy spiritual freedom
Become a PR actioner of faith
Where hate is abandoned in fear of God
To be a protectorate from evil
To defend the belief of the Church
Where young minds can understand God‟s leadership
For religious purposes of a spiritual creed

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That defends the nation against wrongful deeds of hate
Where fate in God leadership to promote world peace
May God protect the female holy veil for equality
Open her eyes, Open her soul to the covenant of God
May men be teachers
May men be leaders
May men be role models
Of the family
Of the community
Of the church
May man think of Church as an audacity of hope of the family
To anticipate the love and guidance of social freedoms
God is my Shepard I shall not want
As I walk through the valley of fire I shall fear no evil
God is my temperament
May I profess the faith God gave me
I believe he is the deliverer of my fate
May God guide me from sin
As I live this journal to heaven.

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A Time Remised

Confusion
Doubt
Emotionally stressed
Venerable inherit
Painfully assist
Damper horizon
Moderately sensed
Modifi ed solution
Dangerously ad missed
Tranquil upset
Fervently blessed
Inhale jeopardy
Externally confessed
An imagery, a concept
Figuratively obsessed
A silent memorial
A gesture remised

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A time remised
A time remised
A time remised
A time remised
A time remised (silence)
I‟m out

Our Love

How I love thee
As enchanted as time passes
You are forever in my memory
Through every sentiment sigh of retrieval
Compassion expels happiness
Valued in each kiss
I yearn for your warm caress
Missing the sentimental token
An epiphany of treasure unspoken
In captivated by words of choice
That persuade meaning

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In how I conceive you
My heart thrust compassion
Consumed in lust
In dire need of every mood
My soul craves harmony
In unity of a companion
Who cares for me
Failing to meet your desires
You beat me with your fist
You curse me with your anger
You train my mind to obey
I cannot handle my fate
Before I lie dead in your possession

Forsaken

Written by, Passion

We have been taken as an enemy of all
In prison our ability to communicate with God
We have mistaken our old tired lies
Creating fear within our delicate skin

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II

Drugged addicts holding us back
Alienating a rafters dark steps
The ghettos furious life sentence
Devious of the calm waters

III

We entrap our minds in dissolute times
An image of a storm perturbs warm waters
A roots bough underneath the soils foil
A shadows emerges a hallow path

IV

To taste its breath of poisons air
Hovering silence embrace for peace
Time‟s client is an admissive stare
Ghostly hands deplete death entrapment

V

Ghastly sign of escape of insanity

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Trying to vacate his unsought welcome
The river trails defeat and defile voices behind
His huge plow hands hold in singes of dirt

VI

His back hold gashes of violet sups of blood
His heart meditates for a savior
The dark night encloses desire to be free
Lord, grant me strength

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Perilous dreams deferred
Envious puppets emulate denial
If tears could speak
It speaks of fear

VII

Align the dark shores
To compromise life in deception
Hammering light conspiracy
To position for failure

VIII

A quilt made of old tired jeans
A sewn patch from each generation
A coveted patch woven in gayety
A smoldering vintage kept hot

VIIII

And in the middle of the day
We would all exit
The storm

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Amongst a clay of dust

And mother will bequeath love
And nature will provide fruit
And prayer will be inevitable truth
And the new born will never speak in silence

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Red Nature

Red tepid water
drains through building
blocks of slothful thought.
Thrust winds, rain, sleet build
red energy from lightning in
the sky moldering in deception.
A scented red rose with
long thickly sharp prongs
speak of gayety pride.
A red liquid imprint from
an old newspaper personal
dreary same sex ad.
A tornado battled winds blew
down the red old country barn
in depravity of old tired accusations.
Awakening death dreary dark
black clouds with tiers of
red voices speak of
despair, agony and fear.
Red sun rays piercing
confused signs of life of
a lustful inquiry.

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Chilly air rips through
the wear and tear
of a red old
withered
jacket
beaten
and
denied.

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On Gambling

I spent the day whooping a dime away
I sipped on jinn and juice boozing my life away
I bargained in debt suicidal thoughts
As I spent every quota on a dollar afterthought
I wondered the casino had a quarter to spare
When betting commission with my family life to spare
I hoped that much energy it took to roll the dice
Would make me a millionaire for half the price
A fallacy that took all I had
For all that‟s worth, my bad

Pimp

I sat in the salon getting duties up for the pension
As a pimp undressed me with unsought commission
I had the body and the hair to match his admission
The pimp saw interest in his mission
Although bargained I had no intention
I was too clean to forsake cheap submission

Still Here

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I may be used
I may be abused
I have been lied on
I have been beaten
I may be lonely
I may be seduced
And my prayers and dreams
Shattered the truth
But I am still here

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Brass Monkey

I walk like I am disabled
There is a monkey on my back
I carry the load of intolerance

Fat Boys

His butt is so fat
When he turns a corner
You better look twice
You do not want to miss it
You may run into it again
Until nothing is left

Make me a Woman

Old age has caught up on me
Where wisdom is patiently counting dawn

Knowing Ones Place

I know where to go
I know what to say

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I know when to stop
I know my place

Believe in God Always

I asked for Strength.........
And God gave me Difficul..es to make me strong.
I asked for Wisdom.........

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And God gave me Problems to solve.
I asked for Prosperity.........
And God gave me Brain and Brawn to work.
I asked for Courage.........
And God gave me Danger to overcome.
I asked for Love.........
And God gave me troubled people to help.
I asked for Favors.........
And God gave me Opportuni..es.
I received nothing I wanted........
I received everything I needed!

Dreary Blues

My skin lives by day and night
The moon often receives its pension for granted
The stars redeems my colored soul
Night and day compensates for paying rent

Rise up and Sing

Awaken, vision the river
Distance our past

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Broken gutters, rusted box cars
A deterred reality
Into a virtual culture of blues
Ruptured by night

African Dance

Fling my arms
Wiggle my feet
Body movement
To the African drum beet

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Bounce my head
Tap my feet
Snap my figures
To a passionate beat

Fondle that guitar
Peddle that piano
Blowing that horn
To the bee, bop rhythm
Of the harmonic drum

Eight Ball

High on the corner
Sipped 8 ball juice
Got me reminiscent
Of all the women I seduced
High on hog dreary blues
Talking all that jive
Sipped 8 ball juice
Got me thinking out loud
Oh my troubled mind
Got me praying
Got me drinking

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The blues away

Fellowship

Scared, my body trembles
My knees knocked, bear ground
As my hands clasp together
My head bow down
Dreams

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Wish

I make a wish upon a star
I wonder, I wonder
The distance of heaven; afar
Up above the sky, so bright
Heaven within my grasp tonight
My eyes see the glory
Of divine life

Coldest Day

The devil‟s breath is as cold
As hell is hot

An Eagle

A whisk of wind whips
Soaring, gliding, wings sailing
Trailing over the horizon
Looking down on its prey
Keen eyes on looking onward
Wings a brisk selling downward
Towards the bottomless pit

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Savoring the vegetation
It devoured a slimy, icky worm.

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REFLECTION POEMS

Death

An Autumn Day
The frolic leafs‟ of an autumn day
Dense forest Piercing time Against the wind
Aloft - Silenced - Crushed
Murmuring whistle cries death:
Rust, Scarlet, Auburn masks of leafs‟
Lifeless a dry, humid hole.
Color
If a color pertains to a hue
How depth of the hue pertains to light
While a mixture of hues define a contour
How much contour is needed to defi ne beauty
If I were black, brown, yellow, white or purple
It would make solid black however you defi ne it
The beauty in is if opal is in fashion
Black goes along with everything.

Reunited

The etching of a Caterpillar steps

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Paint images of the patience it took teach grace
The autistic of spindling of a spider‟s web
Resends a creation of motivation of inspired concepts
The beauty of the sun settling beneath the sea
And of night parching the end of day
Enchants memories emulating peace
The gift to breathe life, there is love
The agility to smile, there is love
The spirit of hope, there is love

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18th Century to Present

Take these worn shackles off my feet
You are wearing me down
With your controlling episodes of emotion
You do not own me
Let me be free to express myself
I felt you hold on to remit a fantasy of yours
When I don‟t feel the same way as kids do
I want to feel free from being tied down
I am tired of being reminded of you
When I don‟t exist, time does not persist
And I must move on, because there is a soul
Inside of me peeping out wanting to be free
But you won‟t let me escape from your spirit
You are not my soul mate, not the one I want
Not the one I dream of and still you wait for my return
Your ghost hunts me, stalks me follows my every mood
Now, I must go to the pasture to hide
For I cannot love anyone now that you have broken my heart
I Am
I am up and down
I am all around
I am here and there

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I am everywhere
I am in and out
I am all about
I am omnipotent
I am God

Remembering

I can barely feel your presence
Emotions left and are not around
I vaguely recall your whispering

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Within my heart, as my body trembles
With fear of not having you here
with me, reminding me that
The light traces your path to where
Life began, mourning not to sell
Your soul to the devil; peacefully
You lie to rest

Compassion

Tupac, a visionary
not to be mistaken for self-pity
Tupac, a legend
not to be misunderstood for self-hate
Tupac, an evolutionist with style
not to be minted for self-envy
Tupac, a revolution
not to be mistrusted for self-affliction
Tupac, an artist
not to be mistaken for self-denial
Tupac, spiritual advocacy
Left a rose in the cracks of the street
Pithing the way for others soon follow
It is more than a dream...it is a way of life

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Reflection

I vaguely trace your appearance
a distorted figurine from the past
Blotches of ink splotches across the canvass
Splotches of oil dances life to an unknown postulant
Imagery emerges a distant path of discovery
fading fast

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A Letter

I remember my struggle
defending who I am
I felt all alone, with no purpose
You made me faithful with your
heart and your love, all-powerful God
you entered my soul and made me whole
in my sickly mind, your Spirit prepares me
for the future, I rejoice
for you to judge my life
with the lives of others,
your Spirit faithfully
reigns over the world.
Like a turtle in its hollow shell

Don‟t Ask

A haze and a junkie
Jiving high
Living on the street
Inhaling a lie addiction
Saving for a raining day
To get my stuff together

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A weeper over college
A choice jiving high
A cigarette stick and a pregnancy
Hustling pool on welfare
Meet you at one
Meet you at three
One day immoral embarrassing
A smile be your umbrella
Don‟t ask
The games we choose to play

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Death of Loved One

My soul quivers with emotion.
My heart divided by the loss of a true friend.
I experience phases of unearthed passion;
Perturbed with urgency, seeking soon your return.

Eyes of a Child

White orchards hallowing
in the wind
Bopping heads bounce
in laughter
Prayers of serenity dance
in harmonic prayer

Scars

Abandoning interest to pursue life‟s conquest
through the humility to change ideas
is human evolution and spiritual inquiry

Suicide

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Horrid wind - I lie to rest
underneath your corral wreath.
Blinded by your mask of illusion,
I seek hollow guidance, where truth
can find my destiny.

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Global Warming

Penguins that play in ice
Whales swarming loops in the ocean
Squires that hobbit in trees
Birds that mate in the spring
Oceans sting black pearls of oil
Skis hover above clouds of Grey smoke
Trees burned down by fire
Quad mires destroyed by man
It is man‟s invention
of technology
Depleting nature through
inventions of energy
factories creating pollution
The dark ages had the same
intention, to dig
irrigation deep seeded
in the earth
Ozone‟s in the atmosphere
in question by gasses
depleting within
Ice melted by heat
as its resource is used for

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Cleaner water demand
An innovation by man determines
the outcome of
that affected the lives of
man, nature and environment
put to an end
Life is too precious to destroy

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Self-Reflection

A dream falters into a
somber whisper.
It becomes easy to make
aspirations than to make it
a reality. Become careful of
what you ask for, for tomorrow
is never promised.

Loneliness

Loneliness is when you
consume your time making
excuses to decide your past
confiscate time to find
reasons for being late
lose your memory and release it
with accolades of deception
You are all alone
when you stopped enjoying life

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To Dream to be an American

I am an African American
and a composite of many dreams
I am a patriot of God‟s faith
and an antedate of a black reverie
I am an American
Born and reared
from different attributes of people
who have each bled or shed a tear

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From the battlefields
to the highest court
from the past until now
have stood like true patriots
with hope a new hope for all humanity to be found?
I am a true American
though how difficult it must seem
But I am one true African American
who dares to dream

Children

Children are our future leaders
in deciding the outcome of the fate as a nation
Children represent consciousness of actions
that will determine level of competencies and invention
it is our duty to teach children to develop reason
so that they will be prepared to instruct
the next generation

A Day in My Life

One must walk a mile in moccasins
To observe an internal journey; exasperation

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To mock the confusion and trifle; each step
To a journey through madness, seclusion and obliteration; words
To emerging forces of betrayal and envy; voices
To emerge from an inclusive identity; unknown
Insanity; schizophrenia

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On Love

I can feel the passion
I can feel the pain
it feels all the same
Tears fall down, down, down
into an inferno of emotions
God only understands what I fear for you
a puddle of tear fall down, down, down
Your breath is the wind of confusion
arising to the tide of affliction
haltering a sun ray of deception
the tear a metaphor for delusion
I fear the passion
I fear the pain
It all means the same
It All means the same

In My Dreams

I once dreamed of human evolution
it is a world that created opportunity for man
Where equality of every man was probable
it is a world where technology was possible to every man

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I once dreamed of human mobility
it is a world where education did not discriminate
Where the state of man was comparable
it is a world where health care is inevitable
I once dreamed of peace
it is a world where we solved problems through minds not killings
Where is a world ridden of poverty
it is a world free of hatred and denial
a world free of sin

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Falling

Falling from deception
not knowing where it all ends
Failing to conceive a notion
of what ailment I strive to be
Hopeless feeling of defeat
Whole became empty
in confronting my worst fear
And denial
became serenity for departure
in a world full of despair
Falling from heaven
falling from life
falling from death
Finding ever ending peace
with my identity

Truth – Hip Hop Poetry

It is not what you know it is who yo know
Startling those fake rimes that react slow
If you got the flex to get in the mix
Yak do know who is feeling you

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cause your whack has no flax
and your dope rhymes are not fly
I ricoshade rhyme to a melody woo unique
that all you could say is by
I am super fly rhyming high
so elevated you want to cry
my beat is so depth you cannot compete
to a lyrical tune that want make mom groove
sit back and listen to the creative inventions of word up
the master of funk gone drop on yo luck
beep bop to fleet lock to a murderous sound

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so depth in depth no other can croon to the rhyme
so by no more lines no alibi or excuses
the beet just rocks like a cradle a motionless beat
bee bop to feet lock an original sound
rocking I could do me all night long
my beat got swagger
my beat got feet
my beat got yo hair growing
out of your seat
when I move people sway
when I groove people say
play that beat, play that beat
have yo grandma out of her seat
there just no other with rhyme like mine
rhyming is hard to find
its not who you know it is you got to go

Reflection – Hip Hop Poetry

Yea//Yea//Yea//I am on a mission//it is my pleasure to defeat you//
treat you//beat you//with the bust rhymes//so high to greet you//with
a voice so high//the streets look yo rhymes do not match the heat
that I swear// a voice that adds strength//a popular request I lead this
joint higher and higher//right out their seats//bobbin their heads to the

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hypnotic beats//drill en holes in the concrete//rhymes so real it has
sex appeal//it is my intention//a mission//to add flavor to the swizzle
that has base and time//it is my pleasure to create words on paper
so innovative//let me bust this rhyme//ah ha, ah ha, ah ha//I am on
a mission//moving and grooving and moving//like it is supposed to
be//adding amazing grace to spirituality//yea, yea, yea//I am on a
mission//with rhymes so depth I am making history//a voice in the
crowd they want to hear//they like my temperament//they hear my
style//having you all jealous and proud//if only you could race a mile//
you are in defeat my brother//ill in it feeling it//cranking the upward
beats//it is just a matter of time//I defeat you with my depth rhyme//

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tick tock tic took//it is about time//A super Women//a black deli ma//
Broken hearted female//Lost in addiction//A corner whore//To support
an infliction//A single mom//Trying to make ends meet//On welfare
selling her body//Just to afford nicer things//Cause child support is
never enough//To raise a family//Father is in prison

Green Pastures

Green Pastures
Green, green grassy land
Blew wild, wild wind whaling
Spreading serial seeds of fertility
nurturing a natural notion
Pretoria practice of penance
relying readily on reissuance
faithfully, fearing another‟s fate

Change

A Promise is
a dream sparse
into a somber whisper
the present
dictates a vision

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it is easy to make a proclamation
than to keep one
be careful
for what you wish for
for the future is never
promised

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Super Women

Broken hearted female
Lost in addiction
A corner whore
To support an infliction
A single mom
Trying to make ends meet
On welfare selling her body
Just to afford nicer things
Cause child support is never enough
To raise a family
Father is in prison
The father lay dead in the street
From dealing a cocaine habit
Passing aids from jail lover
A grandmother in church
Cries out to God
I need you
My family needs you

Life

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Life is a reflection of a journey,
from its course in choices you make of it

Nature

A woman is feminine by nature
She carries her weight with grace
She can be affirmative at times
She can be superior and raise a family and work
A woman can define sensuous traits

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She can dictate space
She can be lead a race
A woman can be an innocent rose
She can be psychic and recognize reason
She can be compassionate in what she does
By nature, a women is instinct

Rage

State of mind
Contrary to what is said
a delusional hatred
to be mistaken for love
Voices. Voices that welcome madness
Immoral words that imitate denial and bigotry
Words used to break you down
Rob you, make you a criminal of self-thought
was that what I thought you said?
A blind man relies on touch
A sane man on logic
Delusional voices, that make me mad
That make me sad, That make me want to fi ght back
To defend my youth, defend my cultural heritage
Where prejudice has no warrant

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Spoken words, only justifies reasons to be misunderstood
I will not be judged or profiled or prejudged by fault only credibility
For I too am America

Sky

Azure sky mounted behind gaseous clouds,
Metallic ocean flutters beneath mystic barriers,
Vegetation barely over muddled olive terrain,
Orange horizon to the break of mourning
Life surrenders to nature‟s beauty.

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Paranoia Schizophrenia

I hear the voices everywhere
Through every source
The television and radio
By campus, travel and shopping
I hear the voices talking to me
Anticipating the will to do wrong
Finding fault of my present and past
I hear the voices talking to me
Knowing everything about me
Detail for detail saying things
That hurt, make me cry and scream
I hear the voices in my head
Voices that say I am unhealthy
Voices that question that I steal
Voices that say I cheat
Voices that threaten me and my family
I hear voice, the voices in my head
That tell me to back off
That tell me to quit
Conversing back and forth with a voice
Talking to God, “God bless the meek and humble”
“As I walk through the valley of fire,

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I hear no evil, I feel no evil, I fear no evil”
The voices state I will remain innocent
The voices are in a confrontation with God
God protects me from sin, the voices
I hear voices in my head that are delusions
from a past that does not exist
I hear the voices conversion
I hear the voices that say
“Do not give up.”
The voices follow me everywhere
They are desperate trying to acquit me
I pray each day for forgiveness

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A promise I will do better
Hoping someday the voices will get to
know me and stop their voices

Lesbian Self Love

I discovered my lover self
My soul mate that met me sexually
A self-touch explored my body
With warm caress in pleasures unspeakable
I discovered my lover myself
Desirable fantasies from a male lover
A female self-lover
Who showed me how to love myself more
In their memory
A self-lover
Wanting to feel what I could only desire
I discovered my lover myself
My inner self desiring to love oneself
A lesbian
A self-One Love

Bright Stars

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Stars shine so brightly
so far away
Mystical dome of planets
a source of light
of any given day
the horoscope awakens
illusion
each to find his way
sparkling so high above
the heavens

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granting life, there is
someone out there
watching us through truth
the stars a sign of heaven
is present in the lives above

Ghosts

My mind is playing tricks on me
with what I write changes memory
A re path from intentional meaning
with what I see is an image
that is not clear
with what I remember is not what is so
It is a mere delusion
with what I said
is not what I meant
with what I hear is distorted
It is a gibberish feeling

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with what I feel
Has no emotion
My mind is playing trick on me
with a touch from a ghost
that reminds me of why I am crazy

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LYRICAL POEMS

Sorry

Sorry I never took the time
Sorry I never said goodbye
Sorry I never made the time
To be with you
I wish I could hold you near
Hair blazing in the wind
To ease away the pain away
Sorry I was not there
for you to hold
while being lonely
In need of a true friend
Sorry I did not understand
you, wishing the pain away
Sorry for the times I did not ask
what was on your mind
I find excuses I turn
I wish I could hold you near
a reign of tears fall
wishful thinking
Sorry for the times we spent

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Apart all apart from our heart
My heart pains
I wish I could breathe within
And take all hate away
A promise to bring you back to life
In my memory for us never to part
Sorry for all the times
I meant to be there for you
And could not
Sorry for the times
I could not speak

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what words and emotions say
I take it all away
Sorry I could not be a friend
I take it all away
Joyful tears fall
Down my face
It is not what people think
It is not what people say
I respond if we can do it all again
I would take it all away
For the memory of it
Never us part
Sorry in regret
I would do it all again

You Don‟t Know What Love is

Confusion
Doubt
Emotionally stressed
Venerable inherit
Painfully assist
Damper horizon
Moderately sensed

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Modifi ed solution
Dangerously ad missed
Tranquil upset
Fervently blessed
Inhale jeopardy
Externally confessed
An imagery, a concept
Figuratively obsessed
A silent memorial
A gesture remised
You have everything to gain

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nothing to lose
just feeling the vibes

Feeling the grooves
Confusion
Doubt
Emotional lee biased
Vulnerable
tradition,
Alter raptly insets
Broader horizon
Moderately obliged
Modifi ed solution
Danger sly ad missed
Remitted projection
Extra denary blessed
Internal expression Literaly confessed
A supplemental gesture
Figuratively abscessed
A silent memorial
A gesture remised
You have everything to gain
nothing to lose
just feeling the vibes

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Feeling the grooves
Confusion
Doubt
vulnerable e
tradition
broader horizon
Modifi ed solution
Remitted projection
internal expression
a supplemental gesture
a silent memorial
a silent memorial

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You feeling me
Just groin and moving
you feeling the words
Feeling the groove
Emotionally biased
Vulnerable
Alternately horizon
moderately solution
Danger sly projection
Extra denary expression
literally a gesture
fi guratively remised
A silence remised
A silence remised
A silence remised
A silence remised
A silence remised
A silence remised
A silence remised
A silence remised
A silence remised

Deep down in the heart of me

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there is something disturbing inside
the image in ME must confide
Miss Notion not to be
My heart is yours
you carry my soul
you carry my soul
you carry my soul
to serenity, to love, to unfold
my heart is yours
forever to console
my heart is yours

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I am broken for our love
It figures our emotions would distant
our feelings no longer consistent
Leaving it up to God above
There is no resolution
what we had is left a memory
now alone in solitary
we had to part as the only solution
My heart is yours
you carry my soul
you carry my soul
you carry my soul
my heart is yours
forever to console
my heart is yours
Cannot I reminisce over you
you took my broken heart for granted
to have my only true love abandoned
Love is only you, you, only you
My heart is yours
you carry my soul
you carry my soul
you carry my soul

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my heart is yours
forever to console
my heart is yours
I picture us once more
Enveloped in admiration
your healing touch full of compassion
in actuation, love will soar
Let us fl y together
Flying high above the heaven
Leaving regrets behind
Let us fl y together

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I am yours
And you are mine
My heart is yours
you carry my soul
you carry my soul
you carry my soul
my heart is yours
forever to console
my heart is yours

Protest

There are people asking
Why, Why, Why
Are people dying
In a senseless war
Why, Why, Why
Are our soldiers dying
Who are we lying to
So many body bags
So many dismantled bodies
Why, why
in a senseless war

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Who are we protecting
who are we defending
the war is getting us nowhere
in a war already won
by the people there
Why, why, why
Are people that die each day
some of ours
Many of theirs that want peace

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Deterred from lies

Why, why, why
in a senseless war
A fight for oil
A fight for world peace
A fight for democracy
A plight to plea
A fight to control
When we are not wanted there
We fight to create world hope
And we are getting nowhere
Why, why, why
in a senseless war
We see the changes
we deny retreat
in a nation unstable
Why don‟t we just flea
Why, why, why
in a senseless war
We fight for the principles
our for fathers gave
to create unity
in a country enslaved

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by chaos and fatigue
People lead in insanitary
Why, why, why
in a senseless war
Please let us find a solution
to stopping the violence
to fight for a common defense
let us leave this war with good intention
Why, why, why
in a senseless war
We have the lowest education in the nation
There are homeless living in the street

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Our children do not have no health insurance
Affirmative action is in question
We want to avoid World War III
Our economy is in secession
Our reputation is in question
Our sanity is in question
We have standards to meet
Other nations are building nuclear
We fight terrorism to defeat

Why, why, why
in a senseless war

Reality

I dream of the day
I would come to say
It is not just another day
I would say safely from return
Of delusion, illusion and allusion
I would reminisce of high grandiose
Doing things unmanageable things
Of being a star athlete, a writer and pageantry
I dream of the day

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Where I could say
What I did was of today
I would live my life
Where my present in my daily life
Was a daily chore full of ambition
Full of glamor
I would be thankful I could help someone
Or do a good deed where my past meant no more
And my past was not just a dream
I dream of the day
I would come to say

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It is not just another day
It is not a dream
I would return safely from
delusion, illusion and allusion
Where acts of kindness
Were a cliquey
I would dream of what I could do now
Now is all that really matters
I could be me
If my life were not a dream
I would be me

Rain

Rain fall down
Let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain
We are at war
For no reason
Let me find my serenity
Millions die of Aids
How can it be
Life in jailed in surveillance

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An institutionalized slavery
Kids wish their lives away
With drugs and alcohol each day
We pray that
The rain falls down
Let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain
The rain falls down
Let it rain
Teenagers getting pregnant

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and ditching school
Parents are in wonder
if they are the fools
Anther man lynched down south
Anther man out of work
Thousands of mothers on welfare
There just aint no hope
The rain falls down
It fall hard and deep
Let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain
The rain falls down
Let it rain
No one goes to church
Without burden and weak
In prayer to let them make it
Through another week
Let it rain
Let it rain
Let it rain...Rain down
Rain down, let it rain
Rain, Rain, Rain
Let it rain

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Running Away

I think I want to run away
To a better state of mind
I think my life has to find
A piece of mind
If only I could stay
I think I want to run away, Run away, Run away
To capture meaning
Of what I cannot grasp

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The meaning of being grown
And on my own
To find a piece of mind
a better state of mind
At piece with who I am
What I have become
To find meaning of love
forward life
Run away, run away, run away
To capture the meaning of life
If I run away
It will be another day
In any way
I cannot stay
I‟ll just run away
to capture meaning
of being grown
Deny all ethics
Of staying alive
Life will have new meaning
I will fi nd love
I will run away
I will run away
Run away, run away, run away

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And fi nd love

Love

I am in love with you
I cannot explain
The way I feel for you
My love is deep, so deep
The world would end
full of emotions
full of emotions

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I must defend
I am in love with you
I cannot explain
The ways I feel
For this love is real
I cry about the break up
Hoping we would make up
And it ends in silence
Deep, deep silence
You will always have my love
To travel near of far
I cannot let you go
Without saying that
I love you
and this love is true
Just to make up to break up
Full of emotions
I must defend
The caged bird sings.

Life

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It is bad enough
I had to say good bye
To find you so fly
Of all the alibis
Now I am all alone and confused
Wondering whose next to fit your shoes
There may not be another
Just like you
What else am I to do
Sending shouts out to yesterday
I am left cold, no way

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I am all alone
I am all alone
My life‟s in fear
I will always be alone, in tears
No one but no one can make it alone
All alone without a friend
To talk to, hang out and live in sin
Why oh why, does it have to be this way
Could we not just be friends, I am afraid
To be without you...sad
For what we had was true
A new beginning, is what is life about
I will have to take another route
To comfort, to love another like me
If you were not so permissive
We would see it is not working
From you to me
I am alone
All alone
I am alone

Loneliness

My heart wonders around inside my soul

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Dwindling the pain of loss
Dwindling hurt emotions of failure
Dwindling remorse from the present and the past
Dwindling time as time passes
Not a day without wonder of
who I am what I am worth or if
there is a possibility of hope
my life endures pain
waiting for the pain to go away, go away
my heart dwindling the pain to go away
heartbreak voices surround inside my mind

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will not let go, dwindling away time
My heart that wonders inside my soul
The feelings of loved ones
Carries my soul forever intentions
to live as long as love lives
My heart wonders around inside my soul
Inside my soul
Inside my soul
Dwindling the pain of loss and failure
No remorse, no presence no past
Dwindling time as it passes by
I sit in wonder why I live this choice
It is God‟s decision for me to live
inside my soul, I pray
Thank you oh Lord
For life

Secrecy

Shah
I got a secret
I am keep en from you
Shah
Do not take it as a surprise

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It is kept a trinket
down in my soul
That embellishes truth
Of a matter of fact
Kept hidden underneath my skin
Shah
I got a secret
Undeniably innocent from a lie
Saying where I go
Where I came from
Don‟t tell

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Shah
I got a secret
I been holding it inside
I clam up to ignore
Emulations of fantasy
Like a never ending story

That hunts my desire
Locking you in sight
Memories unfold fallacy
A tale about you too
Shah
I got a secret
Is it meant for you
Be not pretentious
Evidence lurks back at you
Shah
I got a secret
If I told anyone
It will erupt from inside
I don‟t want anyone to know this
My love is an impostor
Twin invalid
Shah

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It is a secret
No one must know
Shah
I got a secret
Shah
I got a secret
Shah I got a secret, a secret
Shah
I got a secret
I don‟t want anyone to know
Shah, I keeping it
From me to you, shah

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I got a secret
If I were to tell
its purpose
It would not add meaning
To its pretense
It is held enveloped inside
I am your secret admirer
Shah, don‟t tell
I remember you as someone else
Or did I represent a twin
Why does this kind of thing happens
With something within
Shah, can you read my mind
I felt passion with your ghost
I could feel your presence
You‟re the one
You‟re the one
It was you I saw in a dream
My pretend friend
I felt your presence
Holding my soul
Easing the pain
Erasing all fear
Shah, do not tell

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Unless you feel it too

Life Struggle

My biggest struggle
Was getting over you
While you controlled my life
I lie in death
Longing for your return
To be fooled our love
Meant something

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To both of us
My biggest struggle
Was letting go
I wanted to believe
You needed me
In your life
To make life complete
You left me destitute
Like a prostitute
My biggest struggle
Is to carry on
Like we had no meaning
Missing you
Getting over you
My biggest struggle
Was replacing you
When it seems there is
No better than you
My biggest struggle was
Getting over you
Struggle, la, la ,la
Struggle getting over you
La, la, la
Getting over you

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Losing Love

You, You are all
All of me
All I had kept inside me
For so long
It seems too bad
The memories I feel
Letting go
You, You are the one

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Who made me feel whole
You light up my life
With so much soul
On high knowing you
Missing you
Touching you
For so long
I cannot bare letting go
You, you are all
All that belongs to me
reminiscing about our past
How we were true friends
I needed a shoulder to cry to

I needed a friend to talk to
I needed a lover to share
my hearts has fallen
I was crazy about you
I needed you
Wanted you
Missing you
You, You are all
All that is inside
Crazy about love

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You, You are all
All its about
Feeling for the past
Recalling your every move
I cannot believe you are gone
Touched by a friend
Like angel
Who was there for me
To lean on
To cry on
To feel for
All that is inside

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Crazy about your love
You, it‟s you
All its about you
If I could rain heaven
Down on earth
Life would be a disguise
To fi nd reason
How I could live alone
Myself, by myself
All alone fi nding reason
To keep you here inside
There is a place
Deep rooted inside of me
That treasures all feelings
Making it possible to share
The gift of love you gave me
With others
Now that I know how to love
I want to stay
Believing reason
In me, it is about you
In me, that I learn to survive
It is you, I feel like believing
I am free to escape

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It is you, all about you
it is you, all about you
I am who I am
I am free

Dreams

Dreams are made of the feelings we share
together as one hoping that our
love will never end
I would make your dreams become true
only if you would want me to

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If your dream were to travel
I would sail around the world
to the depth of the ocean
we would enjoy the ride
If your dream were to fight for life
I would challenge death
to console your soul with prayer
to do what is right
If your dream were to be rich
I would empower your self-esteem
and be an anchor to your dream
If your dream were to be a soldier
I would be your Sargent at arms
protecting you from your enemy
guiding you from harm
If you dream were to fi nd fame
I would attract popularity
with gainful employment
with fame and popularity the same
If your dream were to fi nd peace
I would give you my soul
we would be in this together
through rich or through poor
If your dream were to fi nd charity

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I would give you my heart
or love would be forever
from sickness and health do we part
If I could answer your prayer
I would give you my faith
through all hope
Love will give or take
If man can dream
I would be your counterpart
to love, to hold, to Cherish
Forever love, forever love, forever love
XO

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Remembering Love

You do not know how good
You make me feel
When you are around
My life is complete
With your presence
With your touch
I feel loved by you
It is a feeling
I never had before
To trust my life
In your hands
Was a big step
You do not know how it felt
To feel your warm embrace
I opened up to you
To allow this to happen
With so much emotion
I felt love
Love like no other
You captured the essence
Of my heart
When we talked

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It added meaning
It was a friendship tied
In a known
Head over heels for you
I remember what love was like
Since your life has not been the same
Your love is forever
In my memories
I remember my fi rst love
My fi rst kiss
My fi rst hug
I reminisce, I remember

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Prayer

I believe in miracles
I believe in dreams
I lift my voice
to be heard
Heaven only knows what I feel
I believe
I believe
Chorus:
I believe in a celestial of stars
Dancing in heaven above
I believe in showers falling down on me
is a sign of love, a sign of love
I believe
Chorus:
I believe in family helping one another
even in times most need be
I believe in being friends
I believe in you and me
Chorus:
I believe in the Lord
Having a helping hand

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Always listening to our call
To deliver us from the bad
I believe in the cause
To surrender love effortlessly
I believe in God
All hope foresees
I believe
I believe
Chorus:
When I was in doubt, in doubt
I felt the pain, a special healing

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To deliver me from death and destitution
To a place where a rock lies
God answered my prayers, he delivered me
When I failed to pray
I walked a lonely road
God carried me, he delivered me and are free
You see I was never alone, he cares, oh yes he cares
When I was in doubt
Faith led my way, I was never alone
I followed his word, yes his holy word
And I was healed, I believe in miracles
I believe in love
I believe in guidance
Yes, Lord I believe in you

Memories

Memories
Memories honor our time together
Honoring our time apart
That we spent together
A promise we were meant for each other
The good memories of our past
Memories

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Remembering our last words we spoke
Remembering our laughter broke
Into tears, we felt the affection
Our hearts broke into reflection
The memories we shared were true
Memories
Of the times of us together
Spreading good news for our love forever
Of the times we shared in peace with God
Memories, oh memories
Memories...
It is hard letting go of loved ones

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when our time is valued as a couple
when our days outlive time
of our hearts intertwined
the memories of our love
Memories of our love
Memories of our love
the memories, memories, remember us
Remember what love is
Remember, remember, memories

Race and Ethnicity

I

I feel that racial profiling is wrong and discriminatory while being
objected towards race and ethnicity. Often I hear on the radio how
poor groups are harassed by police officers based on their race or
ethnicity. While groups are pulled over for suspension of being drug
dealers because of the car they drive. It is unfair for the police to
stereo type groups for being motivated and convicted of crimes they
did not comment. While groups are convicted of a crime for being
hostile based on their demeanor. There have been reports of kids
being murdered by police officers while defenseless. Racial profiling
is wrong, while the people who actually doing the crime from other

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