Mark Deveaux
08-14-04, - 11:27 PM
Wow!
Still alive at 25, I saw vibes of many guys
Lost their lives foolishly, because they choose
Not to be wise.
Even husbands cause wives to draw for knives,
Or ice picks to pierce their eyes by surprise.
I’ve seen some youth became fags,
The truth became lies.
Fit the boot if it’s your size.
How can some of you deny the truth?
When you replace the Messiah with Selassie,
Or some other guy.
I had many close calls,
I stood firm, when I was supposed to fall.
I won, when my back was against the wall.
I made big, of that what was small.
But most of all, I thank the lord for my calling.
Alive at 25 that’s a quarter century,
I can’t count the friends I have in the penitentiary.
Countless friends in the cemetery,
So that just urges me to go on relentlessly.
To use the talent that the lord sent to me,
To write this rhyme full of energy,
Because it could have been the end of me,
To die at the hands of the enemy.
But only God has the power, and he knows my hour.
Otherwise I would have been dead now.
But I’m a live, and I don’t know how.
All I can say is wow!
MARK DEVEAUX COPYRIGHT©2004
Still alive at 25, I saw vibes of many guys
Lost their lives foolishly, because they choose
Not to be wise.
Even husbands cause wives to draw for knives,
Or ice picks to pierce their eyes by surprise.
I’ve seen some youth became fags,
The truth became lies.
Fit the boot if it’s your size.
How can some of you deny the truth?
When you replace the Messiah with Selassie,
Or some other guy.
I had many close calls,
I stood firm, when I was supposed to fall.
I won, when my back was against the wall.
I made big, of that what was small.
But most of all, I thank the lord for my calling.
Alive at 25 that’s a quarter century,
I can’t count the friends I have in the penitentiary.
Countless friends in the cemetery,
So that just urges me to go on relentlessly.
To use the talent that the lord sent to me,
To write this rhyme full of energy,
Because it could have been the end of me,
To die at the hands of the enemy.
But only God has the power, and he knows my hour.
Otherwise I would have been dead now.
But I’m a live, and I don’t know how.
All I can say is wow!
MARK DEVEAUX COPYRIGHT©2004