Why all the angst and regret?
Reality is nonsense
It feels like January 6th
But somehow we’re all Mike Pence!
But they ain’t storming the capital (no, no)
The government and media are spewing lies instead of reporting what’s factual…
Firing federal workers and teachers?
Fans in the stands threatening athletes from the bleachers?
'Shut up and dribble,' but you call yourselves fans?
You called him a (again), so he rushed up into the stands!
You 5’8” dummy, he’s a foot taller than you!
Your neck’s in his hands and you can’t breathe, so now what you gonna do?
We're in the age, when misplaced rage just might get your a$$ kicked!
All that money and security is just an illusion, my conclusion, just don’t be a !
Why in the hell are y’all so upset? (Anyway)
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Life.time.water.waves.sand.one
Notice… how time moves in waves
Like water at the beach
Slow, until the sand shifts
That soothing spritz
Tickles your feet sink as the water retreats
As it always has done
You are already one
With both the water and the sand
Understand?
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appreciate all of the lessons yet to be learned
The mistakes that you make today may seem heavy
But when you take time to relax and are ready
To understand the ways that this lesson will assist
Your future perspective, I guarantee that you won’t want to miss
The chance to appreciate all of the lessons yet to be learned
Do what I say, not what I do, your current error is no reason for concern
You like me, tend to overthink things and are way too hard on yourself
I hope this wisdom that I’m sharing with you today will be beneficial toward your heath
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Tell me this is real?
Tell me this is real?
Not a dream or the truth, but how you feel
All our time and history can’t be fiction!
Memories together just a plot or description
Of a cruel author’s pen
Characters doomed to paradise or hell, may all depend
If I’m awake or asleep, but I only care
If you’re really real and I’m actually there.
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They turned ‘DEI’ back into ‘DIE’
When there’s no there there, what should you do?
When love, friendship, goods and services aren’t equally exchanged, you already knew!
After 1865, our ancestors couldn’t get a fair wage or a loan
Without chances and opportunities, they made a way on their own!
Before the invention of the phone
Until their black Wall Streets and churches were burned
They said to hell with other cheeks being turned
American governments and businesses discourage diversity, equity and inclusion because…
Honestly, I don’t even care to know what the oppressor thinks or does
They turned ‘DEI’ back into ‘DIE’
Because black, brown, and red bodies are just fossil fuel for America’s engine
Centuries of Native America bones and nightmares
Misspelled in cities and states as brazen dares
Slave labor... |
For real, for real, for real, for real?
For real, for real, for real, for real?
That’s the cost for just one single pill?!
A new house will cost you over half a mill?
$300 for a summer month electric bill?
Don’t even think about the lifetime price of a thousand fast food ‘value’ meals!?
$5,000 for a set of braces
$300 for an analog wrist watch faces
A dozen dollars for a dozen eggs?
$200 for my daughters braids?
$50k for a brand new car?
$50 for some drinks at the bar?
All of those streaming services set me back a grip!
$6,000 for a family trip?
$60k for a year of tuition?
You need $50 dollars to go with this slip of permission?
For real, for real, for real, for real?
Gas cost me $60 dollars today, just to fill up my tank?
The ATM charged my three dollars just to pull some money from my bank? |
See you when the light’s bright!
I’m so apoplectic, I'm overcome with anger
With the last inauguration, my nation became a stranger
Presidential pardons, billionaires bending backs and knees
Cryptocurrency and AI, inflation will drive up the price of eggs and cheese
The middle class is last, replacing omelets with corn flakes and water
My mother and wife’s past was brighter, compared to the dim future of my only daughter
Trying to make heads from tails, but my conscience asks why bother?
Wild fires burn in California, as snow falls in Louisiana
Used to be a fan of Nelly and Snoop, but I deleted Doggy Style and Country Grammar
Up is down, wrong is right
Our sticks and stones are useless, as America challenges us to a automatic rifle fight!
So we’re hibernating for the next 4 years, see you when the light’s bright!
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Time, water, and sand
Notice… how time moves in waves
Like water at the beach
Slow, until the sand shifts
That soothing spritz
Tickles your feet, as the water retreats
As it always has done
You are already one
With both the water and the sand
Understand?
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Make them believe like a fairytale lead!
Ideas to reality, work from success
Critics first doubted, but now they’re impressed!
You had to make them believe
Like a fairy tale lead!
Years of perspiration and winkles, on worn rolled up sleeves
Hands get filthy when one builds impossible dreams!
Dirt plus work yields the birth of great things
Dirt under your nails
And cloudy water in buckets and pails
You got it out of the mud
Like a worm or a bug
Persistence paid off in due time
Doubters bore witness once your treasure began to shine!
Thoughts sprouted and grew like a tree
High in the clouds, though most still can’t see
The roots that anchor and nourish reality
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Family separated by slavery
My last name is Moore
Because during the Civil War
My Great Grandfather (age 10) was a slave
On the Gordon plantation, and some jerk with the last name of Moore paid
$500 dollars for a kid that was good with a horse
That transaction split up a family in Tennessee and changed the whole course
Of my family’s history
Beyond ‘emancipation’ the Gordon’s remained a mystery
To our family for a few scores and a century!
Until my father, our family’s genealogist
Did some research online, and discovered historical records at some colleges
Birth and death certificates, and DNA cousins on Ancestry.com
They had an annual family reunion in Nashville and invited my dad along!
Dad said it was so odd to walk around the hotel lobby, where the reunion occurred
To meet so many strangers that looked and s... |
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