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Brashard Booker Poem
“Cold World"
It's been many long years, and the days are getting shorter, Many stories of lost loved ones, Children looking for their father.
This World is so cold, Even worse if you're black. Not a racists, but it's a fact, I mean y'all leave us out dry with nothing, then fool us with "White" Crack..
The "Police" don't protect and serve, instead they provoke and neglect, should we put our hands up, naw it, unload the tec.
I thank The Lord for every day, I'm not gasping for breath, questioning how do you not pull the trigger if your afraid of your own death.
So I shall walk by faith and not by sight, because I know a man that orders my steps, and he'll take care all my fights.
They gave us a book to read when we could not think, then we learned that those "White" pages was nothing without the "Black" ink.
So through many battles our ancestors have fought, and the great M.L.K "I Had A Dream" speech we all have been taught.
We still continue to fight for total freedom, but freedom isn't free, so "By Any Means Necessary," like Malcolm X, we must be.
So to my "Black" successors please enlighten the next, because as we know it's a "Cold World" we live in, and even worse if you're black.
- Brashard Booker © 2015
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Brashard Booker Poem
"Love Hurts"
So many times I've weeped in anger, from thinking he was the one for me, one unanswered phone call to the next, now I regret, how stupid could I be.
She gets butterflies from the thoughts, of what her love life has brought, all the pain that it has cost, and the lessons she's been taught.
So many times she just wants to text, call, get in the car and just go, to wherever he is, just to say hi, do what he's doing, you know.
Roll with him for the day, because that makes her day, His smile, his hug, his kiss, his presence, simple things take her breath away.
Then she sees small signs, but tries to look over them, because it just can't be. Please no, we were posed to grow, a love as deep as the sea.
Signs turn into true actions and it comes to realization to her, that although she saw something different at first....to him...she's just another. Remember. "Love Hurts"
- Brashard Booker
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Brashard Booker Poem
"Can't Lose"
Today as I sit in this bed with my head hanging low, I begin to think about the struggle I go through and how i want to blow.
It seems as if I just can't win for losing, it's like everytime i take steps forward I always take a brusing.
So as I think about these things in my life I drop to my knees and pray, I just want to think my good Lord for blessing me with another day.
For every action that I make I know that there is a price to pay, but i keep my faith in the Lord and ask that he will show me the way.
When you look at my face, deep into my eyes, I plead my case. The terrible life will soon erase, said my Lord, as I run my race.
Many years I'm thankful to see, just how blessed I am to be, many blessings yet to see, just what the Lord has in store for me..
So today as I sit in this bed thinking about wat he gave me and how its not going to waist, I thank my Lord cause im not going to be another sad case.
Most things will subside, but his gifts last forever, I'm at peace with myself, I can't lose, things are getting better....
- Brashard Booker
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Brashard Booker Poem
"ed Up!"
So you want to know the truth, well the truth hurt, And truth is, shid I ain't the only one doing dirt...
Moment of silence....? Yeah I let you'll think about it, cause the ed up you did, could've got violent.
My trust all ed up, so rather you're family, friend or foe, I won't allow you to get too close, because y'all the same ones hurt me most.
Never let them hold you back, never depend on them to hold you down, King, never forget to pack your heat, Queen, never leave without your crown.
Watch the ones you keep in your circle, everybody gotta eat, don't ever get too comfortable, somebody always wants your seat.
Pull off that mask , I already knew it was you, just another coward ass nigga, hating on the next man thats trying to make it through.
But, niggas forget about the street code, I done seen many niggas fold, just your typical house nigga, that grew some nuts and got bold.
You gotta play by the rules, and know the streets don't last long, to be the Man in the streets, you gotta be gorilla strong.
I'm just spittin facts, but it ain't like I know what I'm talkin about, I Has my share of it all, shid, still climbing my way out.
Our United Nation is all ed up, and our neighborhoods are corrupt, the pressure of living free is high, and our sanity is about to erupt.
It's a crazy, ed up world. It's past due for us to unite. It's gonna take a MLK marching attitude, Tupac Voice, with a Malcolm X fight...
- Brashard Booker Sr.
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Brashard Booker Poem
"SomeDay"
SomeDay I just want to show you that I can love, and to give those things you've prayed on.
SomeDay I just want to take it all serious, and to be the shoulder you can lean on.
I know that I am not easy to deal with, and I am a lot confusing too.
But someday I'm going to love true, and show you that I can be faithful too.
SomeDays are harder than others, our good times are shorten by pointless arguments.
SomeDays we are in love, with our hearts mounted like a beautiful monument.
SomeDays I think deep thoughts about my future, a wife is apart of it too.
SomeDay I'm going to be a married man, and I pray that my wife is like you.
SomeDay your are going to realize, that I was really the man you pictured me to be.
SomeDay we will raise children of our own, and what great kings and queens they will be.
SomeDay I hope you will forgive me, and know that I didn't mean for it to play out this way.
I promise to put my pride to the side, stand up like a man, and do things Gods way, Someday.
SomeDays I just pick up my pen and let my words flow, because SomeDay someone will need these words to help them let go.
- Brashard Booker
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