Sunday, July 30, 2006
Big Rev's Take on Christian Evangelism
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Free - A Poem by Maryee
7-24-06
And I saw Sharnaquanesha Alizé Jackson walkin' by
And I wanted sooo much to tell her how she'd been fed a LIE
This SyStEm puts a BIG X by your name baby girl...
and you think your name is cute but they use it against you to hold you back. But your mama didn't know cause...she ain't never been nowhere herself. That was her closest stab at artistic expression.
And you just think it's cool tryin' to live your life playing an XBOX PS2 kind of game...You don't think it's wrong but somehow you just get pee-o'd after you get up from playing grand theft auto. And you purse your lips and jack your head and say something mean to the first person you run in to...you might even cuss
And all the while it's so InSaNe
Auditioning for the video in the next BET MTV Game.
Comb in yo hair
grills kickin' high
wife beater and thongs on
and you know you're lookin' oohh so fly!
But all the while you wonder why you don't get the respect
and then you just don't try
You say you're MAD and ANGRY
and you…you don't know why
Your soul burns like embers on a toasty gas stove
Your heart aches for real love
a tender needy desire
and some days...you'd rather just die!
Mom's no good example
got her own issues to deal
she's strung out herself
never found time to heal
Lost the sensation to feel
Not knowing why she plots in her mind for someone to kill
So you search for someone else to show you the REAL DEAL
Cause looking for love and guidance is only natural
And then out of nowhere
You find yourself in a place
Where you’re trapped with his lips upon your face
His hands on your body
His fire in your soul
You give up what’s pure
Then fear takes control
Now that, which was innocent is GUILTY as SIN
And you don’t know how this mess of CONFUSION
Slipped right in
The videos and music sang you a fool’s song
Told you you were in the right space
This HIP HOP generation
Has now become your maser,
No God can replace
You submit to it and it gives you what you think is right
But all the while broken and confused
You find yourself crying yourself to sleep…each night
And then like clockwork, your mind gets flooded
Images, situations, thoughts untold
And I ask you, Who’s the ruler of your soul?
How will your future unfold?
Just how much has your present been determined by your past?
Do you really know what love is? Come on, now! Do you really know what love is?
Just how deceived are you? And how long have you been deceiving yourself and others? How long? How long have the lies been riding high? How long has it been since you gave up on truth and lies carried you to the fairy tale book? How long?
Baby girl, where are you going and on what ride are you tryin’ to take?
Where’s your destination and what chances are you willing to make?
Make?
Make.
Make!
What chances are you willing to make?
Make the right choice!
How many times will you allow your tender heart to break?
How many times will you repeat that same mistake?
And you confuse sex for love and love for sex.
How many times will you make the same mistake,
passed down from generation to generation to generation to generation
And it’s a silly sensation
To see daughters of the King sink into total damnation
Complete Asphyxiation from demented imagination
Arise Daughters of Zion!!
Wake up oh you sleeper!
Arise and take your place
No more destruction
No more self hate
Go take one good look in the mirror
And identify what’s righteous
What’s great!
Strive for love
Stamp out hate!
Love yourself enough to rewrite that bad script
Love yourself enough to rewrite that bad script
That was given to you. It’s a role I know you’re tired of playing.
Love yourself enough to make a change
Love yourself enough to make a change
A change for the better
For there’s a bright bright future ahead of you
But, Baby doll, the change
It must start with you!
So choose to love not hate
FORGIVE now LIVE
Share and care
Strive to stay alive
Run to a higher place
Lay a smile upon your face
Be the queen God created you to be
Be free to love yourself
So that will free you to love everyone else
Be free to forgive yourself
And that will free you to forgive everyone else
And Be free to give God the Best
So that will free, you to be the best you can be
FREE to LOVE
Free to forgive
Free to Love
Free to Live
Free to be the Best you can be
Free to love you
Free to love me!
Free!