February 2012
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Def Poetry Jam
I remember there was this show that aired weekly on HBO.
It featured many different faces, from different places, of different races, different ethnicities.
It wasnt about the looks of the speaker.
But the words they were speaking. Occasionally a famous person would come through and paint a picture so vivid.
You feel every letter in each sentence. Grabbing the attention of the audience...
Voices
The world keeps telling me.
Cam.
Get out get some money.
You have to be flashy.
Instead.
I sit at home.
Thinking about my ancestry.
Sometimes.
I feel like the people who lived before me.
Speaking to me.
Said they left some business for me to finish.
I took on the mission.
In my other ear.
I hear.
We getting blowed tonight.
Nigga you down with it?
Nah that’s not really my...
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Poem
To me.
A dream is what you were destined to do or be.
But.
What’s a dream to a non sleeper? What’s faith to a non believer?
The thought of failing to an over achiever?
Love comes.
Then it leaves ya.
Lies in the school is what they teach us.
Tried to find the truth in the bible.
I barely can believe the preachers.
Why does a helping hand need diamond rings?
To help the...
“Fantasy is what people want. But reality is what they need. And I just retired...”
– Lauryn Hill
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Simple.
As a poet.
Most people would expect me to
Tell you to get right.
Give insight on life.
Write some shit about love.
Use animals as metaphors.
Give life to the sun and inanimate objects.
Preach like the prophets.
Give you something you can feel.
Make you think.
Whatever.
In one phrase.
My perspective on life is.
Think for YOU.
Live for YOU.
Just be YOU.
Simple as that.