Per Severe

Tell the tough guy you’re tougher than tough times.
Turn off your clocks for a second...
Emancipate your mind, 
it takes time.
Unwrap the coil from your neck and unwind

Turn off your clocks for a second...
Wounds are wombs, 
new birth from them.
Unwrap the coil from your neck,
take The Pathless Path for a lesson.

Wounds are wombs, 
new birth from them.
Follow external and internal signs,
highest flight is from the fallen.
So show the tough guys you’re tougher than tough times.

-Stephen Kofi Opare Obeng
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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