Windows

Our eyes are the windows to our souls

Confident, nervous or weighed down by the world

The days aren't growing any longer 

And the racism has all but faltered

A generation has been failed by parents who had been failed

As our clocks tic away the time of our lives

We look for mirrored images of the days we struggled to survive

We were told we could be anything we wanted to be

But no one told us that it only applies if we sell our souls for cheap

What makes a system tell you how to live

What's makes another man think he has the right to take but not give

Who told man he could play as if he were God anyway

This corruption we live within isn't just day to day

It's forever or at least until the death of our dreams to be free

A poverty stricken society infiltrated by death, drugs and disease

If only our worried minds could just be allowed to breathe

Maybe we'd make the best of this world and just let hell be.

Willie Lynch

This is not a real place
A society that pays homage to gays

A country that still runs on slaves

Corrupted

Our kids die in the streets every day

Feeding us the needles to take the pain away

Liberation is born this way

Conservation is the chain clanks

Failure to decimate a race

Success is taxes paid

No money for school 

Sell your soul to Sallie Mae

Jordan no longer plays

Saturday's sneakers

How to demise a race

Fashion forward

Guess I won't pay my rent today

Smoke this weed

No gas money

I was going to walk anyway

The essence of words

The use of language

How to bring kings and queens away from home just to be abandoned

Three hundred years later

Tar and feathered still hasn't changed

Words a man wrote who hated himself

Still drive an economy not even white Jesus could save

Paint they're faces on stolen success

I'm just a kid judged not based on my knowledge or wealth

I can't even grow a beard

Or even paint my expressions in the clouds

Father do you see how they treat us even now

My name is not billie or susie

My name is not boy

My name is my name

Its worth cannot be destroyed

I am man

I am the test of time

God I pray for deliverance

For this society that has made breathing while black a crime.

Love

At times I feel I have everything 

At times I feel as if I have nothing

Those fears that usually drive me disappear

Those same fears will return 

But manifested as the flaws I can't grim to bare

Please don't kick me down

Please don't shoot me down

Life is a crazy thing

It's either give your all or nothing 

It's not about me

It's not how much I give

Living selfless

Sacrifice

The reason we all live.

Soul

No longer can I fake it
From here the up hill is make it
No one truly knows the depths of these tears
No one truly knows the yield beyond these fears
Waking up nervous
Going to bed burdened
Praying my mold is broken
For the weight is far heavier than any crown
And the strength isn't able to be bound
The myth has met the legend
My clumsiness let's me know I'm alive
These dreams grow bigger by night
These visions run faster than the bright
Waking up on the edge of greatness
Knowing nothingness is a ledge fall away
Kissing failure on the eyes
Embracing being a man over the divide
I know my destination
I know my happiness
My God knows me
But do I know my God
Do I really mean the trust I pray for
I know what I'm thankful for
I used to wonder why we have faith for
Too many people are caught up in others lives
Too many people have their eyes in mine
Pressure is nothing I can't handle
Time will never slow down
Never would I want to be a king or God
Yet I'm looked at as if I know all
Search your hearts for your own clarity
Build your own castles
Don't rely on your personal sanctity
I cannot cry for the lost
I cannot recover a forgotten heart
Who will survive this peril
You cannot thrive in this era
Brick by brick is being unbuilt
Egypt's walls will not cry out slavery
London's bridge will not cry for the merry
1968 will not cry about the victory
Chains will forever sing the pain of gravity.