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My Saddest Song

In this I tale to all my tale
of the life that I’ve been through 
And if I write this tale of life
Then the tale I write be true
And if found false beyond reasonable dought
may all my name be cursed
For I tell this tale with all my word
and what left my word be worth
In truth I write in sincerest hopes 
that of it you may read
Though I pray you hold no sorrow dew
for no sorrow is due to me
The time has past that alas
my heart be lost at sea
For the tide at last has freed me of my past
my selfishness and greed
And all it left is a broken glass
that reflects my sorrow and grief 
As the fall does turn the trees to bare
upon the fall of the final leaf 
A vacant field of smoldering ash
from the casualties former flame
Is all that’s left to gaze upon
upon the battle plane
And as I lift my eyes to gaze 
and reflect on the lands fall
The coldest grievance echoes through my head
saying I could’ve stopped it all
The distant words of an old negro spiritual
begin to recite inside of me
Oh what peace we often forfeit
oh what needless things we meet
And should be should scapegoat
on what alter may our faults bare
For all this do for we do not take
everything to god in prayer
Though always I hold these words in my heart
and of them I do believe
My faith bareith not enough to trust
for my faith be incomplete
Though complete enough to sustain in you that I do believe
that you know the level of my faith therefore you won’t deliver me
And in this I bare my deepest woe
for in you my last hope lies
For the angels that were all once hear to stay
have to all my grievance died
And name the murderer who sins
name the committer of these deeds
And in that name my heart doth break
for the murderer is me
So now as I stare at the dead war grounds
of what use to be my home 
I hum the tune of the beast Jawloon 
for it be my SADDEST SONG

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Tears of My Brain

This is the ending New beginning its over children daddy did it, It is finished so 
father into thy hands I commit my spirit I feel it its coming closer the sun is just 
growing colder, my soul lord is yours for the taking cause hatred is all over, from 
public school corners to the media that reports us and show us as being nothing 
more than just an enormous, pain in the side of the world, and make sluts out of 
baby girls, and make butts out of baby boys, who grow up around this noise, and 
knowing nothing in school, but how to act like a fool, and it’s cool till you grow up 
knowing nothing to do and they wonder why we crazy when the hatred you gave 
babies, ends up catching you at last and biting you in the ..., it hurts don't it homie 
when you really stop to think that you spilled so much human blood with what you 
did with a little ink ova da kitchen sink runnin water tryin to swallow that pill cause 
genocidal is he who sits on top of da hill now tell me whats wrong with this picture 
listenin to other Mr.’s use words to go against us and talk about all our sistas, and 
call dem out of their name the b's the h's and a's and they act like its ok for men to 
come up and say things like it's not a problem when fathers don't know their 
daughters, and they get all hot and bothered, Sorry nobody taught 'em, and they 
say that its common sense well how common is common sense when my mother 
had to struggle hustle and use it all just to pay the rent, now if it takes a village to 
raise a child and a father to raise a man then yall clear up somethin for me help me 
to understand what you call someone like me here walkin around when my momma 
had to raise me cause daddy wasn't around or nowhere to be found in a lot of 
cases many people facin the same situation on a daily bases, and basically it boils 
down to a lack of consideration and aggravation caused by the men of this nation 
and as far as it comes to facin with diversification the laws of education may not 
allow for segregation but the bases is buried deep within the bile’s of legislation of 
the emancipation and extermination of our whole negro nation, what I'm sayin is 
what they really showin the youth with the rims and the caddies is that this is our 
compensation for you not havin a daddy we ain't worried about you gettin it 
because of the facts see you'll be dead long n your grave before you can feel out 
the tax sheet, we ain't meant to survive we're meant to be blamed we the scape 
goats of our nation tears of my brain

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My Tranquility

As Peace and tranquility begin to manifest,
the ways of the tide slowly start to plot
my next storm to bare,
Though thrown down by the vast of trials
past,
I am alive and full of the wonders of life,
I am amazed of how the pieces of the puzzle
I refer commonly to as my life start to show
a picture that I have been serching for,
Though I yet to see the picture and clarity is 
far from the current of my modern day stare,
I long for the completion and the manifestation
Of a life I've dreamed of,
Though not dismaded with anticipation, decleration 
of the moment still stands,
My longing for a peaceful desired shore has not 
compromised my love and enjoyment of the sailing
on a complexing journey, the love, trials, falls, rises
and story
All Make what I have found to be 
My Peace and Tranquility

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Me

I am what I am no different am I 
then the birds above that hover the sky 
in truth I am that which I am
and nothing more could I be
no more then a tear drop that falls from an eye 
no more then the silent cries of a ghost at night
I am what i am no more no less

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Strenght of Love

Mom 
I’ve grown in to the man 
That I am because you cared about 
The person I am 
You taught me to fear the lord
And bond with my brother and sister 
On one accord 
Your daughter talked of your strength of love
And it is given from god above 
Less we not forget what great things you done 
For you are the one to hum I run
All that you mean to me you will never know 
Your love I carry with me where ever I go
 Your strength and love are returned to you
For I do love you so

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You Will Never Know

The sun did shine for all the time 
you were here with me 
though I dare not hold you accountable 
for wanting to be free in your hands you did hold me 
but what you never could understand 
was I could’t be the me I was in your dreams 
for I am just a man 
no more no less than that I am 
what more could I ever be 
for I took my falls and stood it all 
now here I stand in grief 
so take what ever word you will 
I have nothing left to say 
but I will carry my sorrow in my heart 
for the rest of all my days 
but I want you to know I love you so 
and I’m with you where ever you go 
and yes this poem is about you 
but you will never know

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Love of Mine

The way I feel when I'm with you 
can't be matched by a single soul,
Who else in this world would I run to when my
days and nights grow cold
all I really want to say to you 
is that you make me smile
like no other can
Proud I am today to say that 
I am your man
As the sands of time would have it
As it is designed by God's divine
dare no one to take away my joy
The sweetest LOVE OF MINE

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Good-Bye

The sun in the sky can only last as long as you stay,
So since you've been gone all my sunny days are oh so far away,
And every day that comes with you as a memory, 
Reminds me of a better place and time that love did capture me,
As love's prisoner I felt no shame to be caught up in your arms, 
The feeling I get when you hold me close caused me no alarm,
But now the end has ran its course and time has brung end to the trial,
And left me alone in a pool of tears that stretches for miles,
Indeed I hope your life is better since the day you parted me,
For there is no since in such a wretched wish damning both of us to misery,
In this tell I leave behind to shadow with no trace,
The sad day that came to past that I would no longer see your face,
In time though I know for sure my grievance will wither down,
But the burden that hangs in my heart right now exceeds the weight of a thousand pounds,
So I shall drain what little I can to spare my heart some room,
And sing today my saddest song that awfully sad tune

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Oh take good words
Oh hear me now
For my voice I lift in blessings of pure delight,
And the spirits of good fellowship
is the call for joy tonight,
For not a child born of woman 
from this day forth
Will ever know of limitations,
For the views of few can not undo
What happened on this occasion,
Let us not as we have
look for past injustice to waver in tone,
For in truth I do say to you 
you can’t undo what’s set in stone,
For such as the greatest of the potter’s wheel
without the fire could never be,
The synonym applies without once being slaves
our victory would be incomplete,
Never the less let us not permit 
that we rejoice in the former way one man treated another,
For it be not designed by the divine
that the son of man be better than his bother,
For all are equally shortened from his glory
and by his hands it was undone,
For it was in his will when he spoke the words “In the beginning” 
that we shall over come,
And though this be not our final battle
a mere speck of the final victory,
We celebrate this mild stone of a long coming
that many fought to see,
For by many’s blood, sweat, and tears
did this come to be,
So for ever more we will cherish this day
as the day the world was free

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Gold Rain

If tears were gold I'd be the richest person in the world,
And you'd be the great provider of my riches,
You would be my pearl,
You would be my oasis,
A light in the mist of a dark night,
To shine the night like the day and the day shine on til night,
In no rush to catch you in no hurry would i BE IF ONLY IF ONLY.
I can understand you when no one else can see,
You are who you are and that's who you are to me, 
Not one sound out of difference do i EXPECT,
For hearts do what heart do best and love til they forget,
Shilvery is dead they say then so must I be,
For the day that shilvery truly does die I will to dead be,
I don't want to say much else but that no amount of gold could hold me for you I'd cry a 
million tear IF ONLY IF ONLY