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SET BACK TO GET BACK 2025

**"Set Back to the Get Back"**

Some people agree, while others disagree; it’s hard to please everyone I see. Do you disagree? Some want me to feel their pain, demanding sympathy without offering any in return. How can they prevail? It’s hard to believe I was once just like them. It’s called “The Set Back to Get Back,” right where they need to be. There won’t be any love lost for a lost cause—wimpy, lazy kids; grown men acting like lazy boys just to bounce back off the springboard. 

Those unhappy ones cry like a dreary, rainy night in London. Luck rounds out just like time on wristwatches. Now, who is watching whom? Big Brother, you said you would paint the path, but I guess you left the brush behind. I’m painting a different scenery, voicing my own opinion just to get away. It’s hard to stand by the image that set me back; it’s just too hard to get back.

“The Great Things I See, the Great Things I Don’t Want to Be.”  
—JCMT

God Deeds

GOD DEEDS

Setbacks like a trap
I am shackled for another lap

As I cried under the shadow
A river of tears on my face flow
I become weak and then slow

Nobody showed up in my folk
Then they  laughed at me when I become a dork

And then God sent an angle
Healed me with the voice of appeal
From the mountains from the uphill

Sound of echo a pact of friends
For the lost sheep, like the God deeds

Friday, April 9, 2021

Set Back For Black

there has been
sometime no win
its a sin
for all has been done
the repect we won
some can't faces the fact
still won't us wack
its ture too
its been
SIT BACK FOR BLACKS


Don'T Vote Set Back

we are the hope
don't be a doke
put in they wrong folks
this is know joke
it s a fact cards or stack
DON'T
VOTE SET BACK

Set Back To the Get Back

“Set Back To The Get Back”
Some like/ Some disagree/ It’s hard to pleads everyone I see/ Do you disagree ?/ Some people want me to feel their pain/  no sympathy / but no return / How can they prevail/ Hard to believe I was just like them its call the “The Set back to Get Back” right where they need to be at/ Their wont be any love lost for a lost cause/ wimpy lazy kids/ grown men act like lazy boy just to  bounce back off the spring board /  unhappy one/crying like bad rainy night in London/  luck rounds out just like time on wrist watches/ Now how watching who/ Big Brother you said you paint the path/ I guest you left the brush behind / I paint a different Scenery/ voice my own opinion/ just to getaway/ hard to stand by image that set me back/just too  hard to get back/ 
“The Great Things I see the Great things I don’t want to be   JCMT”

Set Back

i been there don that
now am like rat
or moving cat
still smart as a BACK
TRICKS in my sack
had a 
SET BACK


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