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2004-06-18 20:56:53 (UTC)

Breath Is Hard To Come By Sometime

June 18, 2004

Copyright © 2004 Rochell D. Hart. All rights reserved. Not
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without written permission from the author. See author's
website for full bio detail. www.cdbaby.com/rochelldhart

Breath Is Hard To Come By Sometime.

It is up to me
To set you free
In a land that exists on hypocrisy
Democracy
Does not exist
So I raise my fist
An outward and observable expression that I resist
The dramatized
Lies
Of the mendacious American media
Which survive by feedin’ ya
Apprehension in portions that propel us onto the scale of
ignorant obesity
So I invite you to come and feast with me
On the history of the people without the commercialized
thrill
Coca-cola is not what’s real
Though they appeal to the masses
With the strong remnants of the fascist
Arms of consumerism
And sensationalism
Playing on our culture
Zooming in our on self-value like vulture
Evry’body adverting with hip-hop icons masquerading
Even got some videos with bruthas parading
In the classic red and white
But the blues of the truths is what needs to be the focus
of our sight.


It is up to me
To set you free
In a land that exists on hypocrisy
Democracy
Does not exist
So I raise my fist
An outward and observable expression that I resist
It is up to you
To do the same thing too
And not believe
Everything you receive
Through the mainstream sleeve
But instead
Go to the backyard breed
History books
And take a look
At the stories that don’t teach us in school
The stories that never make it to the nightly-news pool
Choose whether or not you will be a fool
Rather than allowing your drool
To drip
Down the lip
Of the spoon they try to feed us with
But reject it, and spit
It back in their face
Define your own space
Mark your place
And live your life like a legend that is not soon to be
replaced
Or erased
So that you children’s children will have at least a taste
Of the real stories
The real glory
Of fighting socialist style, laying it all on the line
And maybe they’ll be able to breathe, cause right now,
breath is hard to come by sometimes.




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