Black Poetry : L.I.F.E...an elevated verse

Matchbook Lady

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L.I.F.E .......(elevated verse)

Endless bars and endless rhymes after/
Still it`s like nothing else matters/
Besides the bling bling, the girls and the rides/
Behind poor emceein' is where ignorance hides/
Grown men, and women too, talk about how to keep it real/
Yet they keep adding to the ever spinning fraudulant wheel/
It spins going round and round/
Emittin a high pitched sound/
Heard by the children of today/
By it, they`re being led astray/
Why can`t we change their ways?/
Why can`t we contribute to better days?/
It`s weird how Will Smith can make millions when not givin' into the game/
And at the same time, Cash Money makes millions off their shame/
Showing to the world their lack of respect/
Their role in the community they neglect/
Teeth shinnin' in the sun as it hits the "platinum fangs"/
Lil boys rhymin' bout trivial thangs/
Can`t be viewed as men yet when they spew such nonsense/
No wonder why today`s youth are so dense/
The radio and the TV raise these kids/
They rob them of their common sense and their wits/
We must do something to change this trend/
We must be aware of the messages we send/
Copywritten and trademarked for all to hear/
That today`s media is somethin' we must fear/
Poisonin' our minds, our hearts, our souls/
Strippin' the youth of their dignity, their humility, their goals/
Elevating their minds will now be a tedious chore/
For how can you tell them that life`s about much more/
Then the glitter and the gold they see on their favorite star/
How do you teach them that they must raise the bar/
On their standards of who an idol should be/
Oh, what can we do to take away thier blindness and have them see?/
Life is about love, empathy and charity,/
Intrinsic morality, future aspirations and intigrity/
Friendship, good sportsmanship and a respectful attitude/
Elevate your mind to a new latitude.
Read the first letter of the preceeding four lines/
Then you`ll know for what a true man dies/
To yourself be true, and to others be a light/
Understand that deception, and evil always lose the fight!!


PEACE
 
Thank you, thank you...u make me feel at home...can u tell what songs I was listenin to when i composed this next piece??


The sun rises and sets, everyday without fail,
But in every ghetto, its rays dim with every siren’s wail.
They say a rose can grow from concrete/
In spite of the negativity and the heat/
I cannot believe in such an event taking place/
Not when youths are layin in a casket with a somber face/
It ain’t realistic for me to have hope in a world so dim/
I cannot see that cloud’s gold trim/
What happened to the innocence of the young/
Why do they walk about with heads hung/
A man used to stand tall and proud/
Now it’s his “ice” or “hoe” that announces his presence out loud/
The whole world’s future lying in nimble minds and influential personalities/
But who can they rely on to teach them their responsibilities/
I’m calling the kettle black, preaching ‘bout what must be done/
I’ve yet to lay down my teachings to a young one/
But you and I, brother and sister, friend and foe/
Must let the wisdom of the ages start to flow/
Let it trickle to the masses/
Take off those rose-tinted glasses/
See the evil abyss for the colour it is/
Make extinct the saying “Ignorance is bliss”/
With a snake’s hiss, with the strength of a serpent’s venom/
It’s the evil corruption that’s overwhelmin’ ‘em/
The future’s light is dimming like the setting of the moon/
Brainwashin’ teaching them to praise a tycoon/
Before the One Up High, priorities messed up and jumbled/
Are basic morals to be left broken and crumbled?/
Time to unite in the ONLY cause/
Before humanity is reduced to a pause/
Nowhere left to go when the Earth is depleted so/
With nowhere but down left to go/
Make your footsteps imprint wit the weight of ur intelligence on ur back/
Start to shed prejudice so that intolerance and stupidity is something u lack/
“Dem a murdera” it’s been known and publicized/
Still ain’t no one recognized/
“Dem a vampire”, it’s been sung and “seen”/
Still people have to be tested to keep clean/
Teach a man to fish so he can take care of his own/
But never expect him to go the journey alone/
Ain’t no sunshine when Justice is gone,/
The sun has never rightly shone/
When she is away/
Ain’t no sunshine when we let criminals rule the day/
It’s not warm when we strive for an equality that is constantly out of grasp/
Wonder this time if we can measure up to the task/
Can we unite in equality, justice and peace/
What must one do? Beg and plead for u all to PLEASE/
TURN IT AROUND, DO SOMET’IN/
****in wit death gonna get u in a casket, no frontin/
Lights, camera, action/
Bring back the love and compassion/
Follow the caravan, follow the crowd that’s awakening/
Be aware of what you’re putting out there, what stuff you be perpetrating/
Remember it takes one voice to make the message heard/
Everyone waiting for someone else to spread tha word/
Somebody, anybody, but never yourself/
Priorities all messed up; truth coming only after accumulation of wealth/
Omitting education, spiritually and richness of character/
Neglecting such things as manners, never making it a factor/(said fact-er)
Sportin the newest vices that the devil has to offer/
Intellectual stimulation is something with which we can no longer bother/
“Bustin caps,” making money and copin ice, is what we about now/
Interesting how we wonder how’d evil get on tha prowl/
Laughing in the face of religion and righteousness/
Implying that we’re above all that nonsense/
Talkin bout how “yea, in God we trust”/
Yet, very quick to call a shawty so you can bust/
A nut -- almost wut we be when we ignore life’s basic doctrine/
I’m coming simple at you, no word play, just an acronym/
I’ma ask you to go 17 lines up and start at the letter R/
Then work your way down reading the letter at the beginning of every bar/
Until you get to the ‘Y’ – now do you understand, now do you see/
Why it is not just up to him, her, them, you or me/
It’s about US, our RESPONSIBILITY to one another/
To life, to our sister, brother, father and mother/
Only as a union can we gather the strength, the power/
To rebuild this world back up into the highest tower/
Seen all over the Universe as the beacon of light/
The symbol of what is true and right!
 

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