Open Your Eyes

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  • Life
    • FLAWLES
    • I am the birth of a legend and the mold of an icon; and I've installed myself on the desktop of the world for its inhabitants to keep their eye on.

    Poem Commentary

    Understand, I ain’t preachin, cause I ain’t no angel. At the same time, I ain’t, gonna sit back, and let you, walk into danga. I’mma use the mistakes--I mean decisions, I’ve made, to try to keep you up on game, or, not getting played.

    Open Your Eyes

    As I look, up in the sky, that’s supposed, to be the heavens,

    I see, the playing field, that, put in motion, 9-11.

    I ask myself, how could he, stoop so low,

    killing, thousands of people, with, just one blow.

    But then I think, was it was all a ploy, 

    to get into, our private lives, to play with, like a toy.

    The man is mad, straight, out of control, 

    look deep into, his body, you’ll find no soul.

    Does he have remorse?  Did he give it a thought? 

    When he sat down, and put together, this, fiendish plot.

    Dear Lord or Allah, who’s, ever listening,

    Please, return the way of life that we, all are missin.

    How can WE not do violence, when that’s all we see, 

    no matter how many times, we turn the channel, on the tv?

    Please don’t be bamboozled, use your head. 

    It’s called “common sense”, or you’ll be dead, instead.

     

    There are two ways to get dead, either be killed, or, kill yo-self. 

    Please pay attention, I’m tryin, to offer, your ass help.

    Don’t walk around blind, homie, open yo-eyes. 

    Especially if you’re young & black, nigga--YOU THE PRIZE!

    Look before you leap, pay attention, don’t be a sap. 

    It’s time to recognize, it’s a plan, a trap.

    You ain’t comin up, sellin them rocks on the street. 

    It was designed to addict your brother;  and put your ass in the clink.

    Education is the key, read a book then, read it again. 

    It just might come in handy, to keep or GET your ass out the pen.

    Once you in the system, there’s no comin out. 

    There’s a time to listen, a time, to, shut-yo-mouth.

    You ain’t the first, to do that shit—other’s attempted.  

    Tryin to make that money that’s, tax exempted.

    He’ll let you make a little;  and then, a little mo; 

    but remember, that, first deal you made?  Now it’s LIFE, behind the, prison doe.

     

     

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    Dezirae0106 commented on Open Your Eyes

    12-17-2012

    I really love this poem, one of my favortite. I sent it to my son so he can read it.

    FLAWLES

    12/17/2012

    Glad you like it; and yes, it is something for the youth to read. Look for this one "Dark Path".

    sweetnspicy8283 commented on Open Your Eyes

    11-09-2010

    this poem should be read to so many of our youth it should be read in the shools so that they can STUDY it n REALLY get the word thru thur heads cus its 2 true and it hurts so much cus these kids these days think they r better than the last who tried ((so sick of seeing us lined up for prison instead of graduation)) GREAT POEM!!!

    FLAWLES

    11/10/2010

    Thank you so much for reading this and your words of reflection for it.

    shakeme4life commented on Open Your Eyes

    09-24-2010

    Yes, talk to them hard heads... yes command and decree... this poem though in some slang terms , is very straight forward and insistant , i love the flow of the poem.

    FLAWLES

    09/24/2010

    Thank you for your comment. I didn't think it would get read that fast.

    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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