Will the real you

Please stand up

Man up

Be bold enough

To say,

"People

I can no longer live my life for you

I can’t stay cocooned

Locked up

Tied down

Chained into

Doing what you “expect” me to do

Until I’m so much of your expectation I don’t even know who

The real me actually is"

It’s tragic

That the fact is

The moment you do

Anything ag...

At the age of thirteen

a marriage took place between

my paper and pen,

and since then

I’ve written poems.

Poems that have pulled folk from their seats,

causing them to stand to their feet.

Poems that have made them ooh and ah, and

Egg me on like saints do a preacher.

Because when I’ve hit the floor I’ve birthed these babies of words that

Wailed mellifluously from mic to speaker.

Yes I’v...

You are now granted freedom

Not just to walk it

But to preach it

Not to contain it

But to leak it

That those around you

Can’t help but seek it

Not just to have it

But to speak it

Yet

Many of us are committing homicide Because while we see the signs of the time Men panting for the word of life

We sit back with closed mouths and go through the motions like we are Christian mimes

Why?

Wh...

So one day this dude steps to me

And upon rejection

He

says, "You don’t give

Romance

A fair chance"

But the fact is

I’m quite the romantic

It's just the One whose charted my heart’s path

Is really kind of matchless

From His Genesis to Revelations

I mean even the woes of His Lamentations

Move me

So for someone else to woo me

You gotta come correctly

See

I want someone to...

When I grab the mic and spit

It’s not so the people can say, “Yooooooooo she ripped it!”

But I use this art

Of spittin’ lines

Of poetic rhymes

To grip minds

And change hearts

I spit

So that young men will have greater dreams for their lives

Than hip hop and hoops

Bigger things on their minds

Than gettin’ dimes and

Pushin’ coupes

Use their brain to maintain

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