Black Poetry : broke ***** (in the vernacular)

alyce

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broke *** people
upset me...
hurts my heart
when I see my brothaz
step to my sistaz
like they got
gold trim from the
base to the rim

when all that glitters
is in they mouth

and can't even articulate
what they talkin bout

and all the sistaz ain't even
exempt
in bandanas...
and slippers
tacky and
unkempt

acting like theirs
is pearl-lined and
triple fine

(Lawd haf mer c
on me and mine)

broke *** people
and I don't mean
material deprivation
it's more like the
result of mental starvation...

I'm speakin
of the void of understandin
low on knowledge
folks rollin on empty
in the think tank
ain't thinkin bout college

I'm sayin there's
a lack of learnin goin on
people walkin round
with holes in theysouls
with no fruits of the Spirit
folks who despise
the Truth
and don't wanna hear it

broke *** people
my sista, my brotha
all my neighbors
and we need to help
one anotha...

so I figure if somebody
loves me enuff
they need to tell me
some
hard-to-hear stuff

don't worry bout
softenin me up
with too much kindness
because I'm also guilty
of selective
blindness

just back me up to
the nearest mirror
so I can see my
broke ***
a lil mo clearer :wink:

alyce (c) 2002
 
Woooo :jumping: Weeee!!!!! Gurl, gurl, gurl!
I know you jes didn't sit down and blow up. You wrote dis in passionate pain...not in a flippant attitude. I see so much of dis heah poem EVERY day. I felt you all the way on every line. There seems to be a large increase in sorriness and I know this be painful to a lot of parents.

Well written Alyce. How can it be any thing else...coming from you? :)

Joyce
 

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