Just Thoughts... - 6/2/09

There is a
New meaning to suicide
That coincides with,
The death of self
See we pursue this wealth,
Expecting it to be quick and easy
But when it goes wrong,
We start acting slick and greasy,
Like the food we eat,
2-piece the chicken
And go after the breast,
Knowing full well you're not living your best
But when someone else is,
You want to get hatred in your chest,
Chest to chest, we all are one
Black people must be united, our cause is never done
But to kill another black,
Fill another stat,
Turn a stereotype into a fact,
That is suicide...
To kill him makes you look worse,
You fail to realize you might be the next in a hearse,
Conventional wisdom expects you to take a woman's purse,
Rather than the do the Obama and be a historic first,
To settle for government money is to be a slave,
A slave to money and the shackles of waiting to be paid,
The more of your people you kill
The more your love for self will fade,
A progressive and degenerate suicide from which you can't be saved,
But you don't care...
You think a 'nerd' being rich isn't fair
You prefer the lies of Plies
To the truth of educated youth
You think your way out is the booth,
Or the rock on the block,
But all you're doing out there is losing to the clock
Time waits for no man, and as you don't get rich
You don't get back all that time you thought you were the 'shit'
It's about time you got flushed,
And gained a pride that can't be hushed
But no...
You have to be a thug and get tatted
And live up to your peers
It truly is a shame, but
You won't understand until your later years...
By then your innocence will be long gone
And your love for self will have died
Black culture
Is one of suicide.

-A. Lewis