So Moved … to Be

So Moved … to Be

off of Common’s new album… recited by Pops

Be
Be here
Be there
Be that
Be this
Be grateful for life
Be grateful to life
Be gleeful everyday for being the best swimmer among 500,000
Benign
Be you
Be mom’s bean pie
Be lil’ black Sambo, with bad hair
Be aware of Willie Lynchism
Be
Be boundless energy
Be a four star ghetto general
Be no one except I
Be food for thought to the growing mind
Be the author of your own horoscope
Be invited
Be long living
Be forgiving
Be not forgetful
Be a proud run, only to return to fight another day
Be peaceful if possible, but justice at any rate
Be high when you low
Be on time with no where to go
Be cautious of the road to college taking a detour through Vietnam or the Middle East
Be vigil of foreclosure over your shoulder, while begging a nation built on free labor for reparation
Be a cartographer, a map maker
Be able to find Afro-American land, search thoroughly, it may be close to black land
Be amended five fifths
Be amended five fifths human
Be the owner of more land than is set aside for wildlife
Be cupid to world government
Be found among the true lost tribe
Be at full strength when walking through the valley
Be not foolish as temporary king of the mountain top
Be a brilliant soul sparkling in the galaxy while walking on earth
Be loved by God as much as God loved Gandhi and Martin Luther King
Be that last one of 144,000
Be the resident of the twelfth house
Be eternal

… why aren’t there more songs like this??? I am moved beyond words.

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An Eye for an Eye

An Eye for an Eye

Festering and boiling has never really been my thing. If I’m mad about something, I tend to let it be known – immediately. I figure all emotions should get treated the same way. If I was totally thrilled and excited about something someone did, I’d be so quick to tell them their heads would spin. Holding back my feelings from someone I care who does or says something to hurt me (whether purposeful or on accident) only does 2 things – 1) makes the negative feeling build up to the point where I just don’t like the person anymore because of all the extra, unneccesary animosity I feel towards them OR 2) makes me forget exactly what it was they did to hurt me cause I’m so busy being guarded and angry and that makes me susceptible to them hurting me again the same way. Letting someone know that they hurt me and how is theraputic for me because not only do I log it in to my own emtional policing that something went wrong here and be on the look out for it elsewhere… but people are good at doing their own merit system. They tend to then kinda… clean up their act and not offend in the same way. However… some people are so entrenched in this system of hidden feelings and veiled contempt that no matter how easy going I might be or willing to listen without judgement, they continue on this kind of a path. At this point I can’t even get angry at it anymore. It’s just annoying to no end. Because then it’s this stupid game that I have to play with folks. I have to meet them at their level so they can understand why I hate it so much.

It’s not that I’m a stranger to it. I am the queen of dishing back the whole guarded emotions and “wait till i can get back at you with this later” stylee. I had to play it for so long and just got sick and fed up with it. But I can hang with the best of them. Unfortunately.

*sigh* Oh well.

Hump day.

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