I want to do so much more

But my mind moves slower than my heart

Its time I call for change

And now that change must start

There must be more than this provincial life

To save individuals from their individual strife

The poor, the homeless, whove never had a chance

Shackled in life, no cans just cants

What of people who eat and drink til they burst

Next to people who die of starvation and thirst

The unchallenged mind of a child without

Adequate schooling due to financial drought

Lack of spirituality in the lives of many

In the future who knows if there will be any

Unwanted children who are merely just there

Next to abusive parents who simply dont care

The money-grubbing businessmen and CEOs

Bears no mind to the man with no clothes

The women looking bourgeois all happy and pretty

Could care less of the suffering thats sweeping the city

The music and art programs that are recently lost

Due to lack of funding and too much cost

The wars from countries that come back home

Makes one judge quickly the minds of their own

The color of our skin, the people we date

Have all endeavored their particular hate

Within the message of continuous strife

There must be more than this provincial life

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When its the love of life your soul must gain

Remember not to get caught up in the rain

Although your mind tells you its all right

Your soul is different as dark is to light

Breath not of the worlds dark forces

But console into the souls true courses

Treat people with honesty and pay attention

Be not a tool of the worlds affection

For it is your own life that you are to control

Surround yourself with those with the common goal

Sin will lurk at every corner and hill

Just waiting, waiting for you to spill

When you clear your obstacle in the end

Youll have completed it with a true friend

The world is too much for one man to handle

He must be accompanied by the bearded man with sandal

However you imagine Him, Hell always be the same

To be your umbrella when you are caught in the rain

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Here I am Lord

Realizing peace of mind

It really wasnt so difficult

Not that hard to find

I stand before thee smiling

Content in my lack of hate

Happy because of my good luck

And a great handful of fate

You see the answer was easy

It was right under my nose

It stemmed from the individuals

Who see upside-down rainbows

Ive challenged myself to the point of despair

Searching for people to understand

Then I realized they were always there

Helping to form me as a man

I thank them greatly for this

And I thank you immensely for me

For now that I have attained peace of mind

May I withhold it for eternity

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Success comes and revolves around the just

Not those that lie, deceit, sloth or lust

Sometimes they will win, and you will then loose

But in the end success is your, for you have paid your dues

The lazy and ignorant will pursue the fast buck

They have no determination, merely fools luck

The winner has already motivated himself

Which will assist in his journey towards wealth

It might not be for money, it might now be for power

But for peace of mind, hell strive hour after hour

So when you decide to walk with the winners on high

Remember, its reserved for those cats that try

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I only give 100 percent

Only fools give 110

For when they use their energy up

What are they left with then?

Only 90 percent to fight the next battle

Well, Im not playing with them

If they try to give 110 percent

Theyll wear out time and again

Thats why I give only 100 percent

Thats all my body can spend

At least I dont wear down

Like the fools who give 110

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How dare you wake me up and rob me of my sleep

Take away my sunshine and continue the lands weep

How dare you rumble at me, keeper of your soul

For you I shall appreciate until I am past old

How dare you flash your short-lived light

And give all Gods creatures a long-lived freight

How dare you wake me up, and show me natures strength

And open up the heavens in order for Mother Earth to drink

How dare you, Storm, continue to breathe free

And refresh the land, that I may appreciate thee

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How many times must I take you there?

Must I ridicule and strip you bare

All of your talents continue to go unused

And you claim its because YOU are abused?

Quit settin up walls of solitude

Maybe then youll stop actin rude

Its not my fault you dont wanna live

Yet you feel you have nothing to give

Its hard to answer the question why?

When youre not even willing to try

So quit bitchin about the worlds insincerity

Stay positive in life to have clarity

You claim that no one understands you

But how can we help when you refuse too?

How can we forgive your sin

When you refuse to let anyone in?

Get your mind right, boy

Grow up and learn

Maybe then life will be kind

Before you end up in an urn.

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Could it possibly be true

That faith coincides with luck?

For when you least expect it

Your life is no longer stuck

Could it possibly be true

That another could possibly relate

To the experiences of a troubled past

And a realization of common fate?

Could it possibly be true

That another has these gifts to share

The gift of a creative mind

To the people who arent there?

Could it possibly be true

That this experience we call life

Could be shared with another individual

That is not known as your wife?

Could it possibly be true

That I have found an actually friend

Different lifestyle but common goals

Such as poverty and struggles end?

Could it possibly be true

That someone could be so real

When ink depicts the drawn out thoughts

That only the heart can feel?

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Deep inside, every man wants to be a kid

Its too bad that man is measured by what he did

He reacts in ways that none understand

Not his lady, not his friends, not even the man

His lady turns into and Ex-

His friends are next

His mind is ludicrous, confused to the core

Until he realizes that he has no more

Where will he go from here?

He lives like this year after year

Unwilling to be a part f something larger than himself

He struggles to live, questioning his mental health

Although his spirit means well

Only in confusion does his mind dwell

What can he do to live

He feels he has nothing more to give

Society rejects his image and instincts

I have no talents is what he thinks

In the end, hell win

But how, why, and with what sin?

Through all of this, he has learned his lesson

When it comes to life, there is so messin

To be successful you gotta mature

And learn from how you treated her

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Eyes cannot see

Especially mine

Your complacent love

It has struck me blind

But I gaze to your trust

In guidance on direction

U lead me through the dark valleys

You are my protection

I swerve off of this crooked path

Thinking its perfectly straight

I lead further into sin

Away from the Pearly gates

But you always retrieve my mind

In this, I am thankful

But right now Im utterly confused

As my ways sin by the tankfull

Lord protect me all my days as a sinner

And bless me in my ways as a winner

Protect me from the clutches of hate

Make me not the devils bait

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I feel like I cannot be happy

I fell like Im living a lie

One day quickly passes

Another chapter of my life rolls by

I think through this creative cage

All jumbled inside my head

But I only contemplate the ways

In which tomorrows life will be led

My family tells me Im spoiled

That Ive been babied since day one

But its not the way I would have chose

Born as the youngest sibling and son

Regardless, I work my TAIL off

Using the talents God has given me

All in all Im just a simple man

Brought up with money and luxury

Im on my knees every night

Thanking God for what we take for granted

Shelter, beds, even the food we eat

And a work ethic weve forgetted

Its hard work that creates the soul

Its hard work that created this land

Id be the same without the luxary

For money never made the man

So what I say to yall

Who still dont understand

Its hard work and perseverance

That makes me who I am!

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Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back

I couldnt trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

Take all of lifes experiences and throw em in a hat

Cuz cant no man, woman, or object catch this cat

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Will is succeed, paranoid from the weed

And hocus pocus try to focus but I cant see

I spend my life working hard, cant you see me bleed

Its hard to see a black mans blood even harder to see him succeed

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And in my mind Ima blind man doin time

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

Look to my future cuz my past, is all behind me

Unfortunately all you see, is me, sippin on Hennessey

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Ive been trapped since birt, cautious, cuz Im cursed

And fantasies of my family, in a hearse

Im manic ot make em happy, Im fiendin for the purse

I start slangin for their happiness and yet it still hurts

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And they say its the white man I should fear

But its my own kind doin all the killin here

To think about it flows out my eyes in tears

Gotta light up again in order to get my mind clear

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I cant lie, aint no love for the other side

Jealousy inside, make em wish I died

My mind in the society has never really cried

Cuz I smile on the surface to protagonize my pride

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Oh my Lord, tell me what Im living for

Everybodys droppin got me knockin on heavens door

I cant take the hatred and the stresses no more

Lord Im beggin you on my knees laying prostrated on the floor

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Recollect you thoughts dont get caught up in the mix

Cuz the media is full of dirty tricks

For some reason I stand out amongst their picks

But all I gotta say to you jealous and dirty hicks

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All my memories of seein brothers bleed

Everybody grieves, but still nobody sees

Only God can judge me

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Strength and Honor

Glory and Grace

My will overcomes

The poverty of this place

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Can u see the grimace on my face?

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He gave me the option to choose right from wrong

Through free will he has guaranteed me the singing of a new song

But only if my decisions are chosen in the right ways

Along with my happiness to His thanks and praise

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Might I find the secret of life that has already been found

When I am singing in heaven a melodious sound

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Only then will I know

So much further to go

Until then though

Ill reap what I sow

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My heart as a goodfella

I know I should give in

But what good would that do

To live a life of sin?

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It just my style

To give into the ladies thats wild

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But I continue to be their friends

To unwind their loose ends

In me there problems lend

A helping hand where advice pends

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My friends, the Lord has two eyes

One the sun, and the other the moon

With one he gazes at the stroke of midnight

The other is used at the hour of noon

These circles would not be complete

Without the teamwork of two

Each works together in common purpose

To forever look after you

So when youre worried or feeling down

Either thanks or forgiveness you seek

Just shift your eyes to his heavenly glasses

For Im sure Hes sneaking a peak

Now go with this knowledge and use it wisely

For you never know the precise time

With the God-given gif of life will be taken

And the Lords eyes are struck blind

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Thank you Lord

For giving me

This life, this love

This liberty

For all the things

I take for granted

And for those

My parents have handed

For my brothers and sisters

And all of my friends

For their good and their bad

And all their loose ends

For the times I am happy

For the times I am sad

For the times I am good

But not when Im bad

And last but not least

I pray for the end

May I be reunited with you

My family and friends

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Every once and a while

God achieves perfection

I bright spring day

A childhood recollection

In the beginning there was darkness

Then he created light

As we work tirelessly through the day

He entertains us with dreams at night

A bright rainbow forms

After a torrential downpour

The colors represent peace

Exactly what love is for

When you sweat from head to toe

You finally put in your heart

You realize you are worth something

Even before you start

Even when we lounge in the couch

Settled, looking into your eyes

You will always be the reason for my smile

The reason that never lies

All these things have one in common

They are all perfect thought

They all stick in my memory

With money they cannot be bought

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What is it to life

That makes it all worth while?

Is it money, pleasure, success

Or that girl with the incredible smile?

Through my experiences, Ive decided

That its not the worldly things

But Through Gods hand guided

Unfortunately for all of us

The world is such a nice place

There is too much temptation

That leads away from grace

So what are we to do?

No one can say they know

But ima keep on prayin

And maybe to heaven Ill go

Thats all thats needed

No need for learned degrees

That piece of paper wont save you

In hells dark, freeze

But have fun with life

Live the day like your last

When we both get to heaven

I guarantee an all out blast

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I am only one man

I can be no more than one

Am I the man they praise

Or am I the man they shun?

Am I the man they love

Am I the man they chant?

Am I the man who can

Am I the man who cant?

Am I the man who plays

Am I the man they choose?

Am I the man that will win

Or am I the man that will loose?

Am I the man with the talents

Am I the man they hail?

Am I the man who succeeds

Or am I the man who fails?

Am I the man for whom they yell

Am I the man they came to see?

Am I the man who listens to them

Or am I the man who listens to me?

I am the man who is well prepared

Only one man can I be?

I know not if Im the best man here

But I know I am the best ME!