Mirrors

"If you looked at my life... and see what I see..." - Mary J. Blige; singer

You see, what separates me 

Is that I can see what you see

But you haven't seen what I've seen

So you can't see what I see

I see a girl

That's so likely to go unseen

Because what she has in her jeans

Is unlike many others that's seen

But see she still goes unseen

The irony

Seeing what's inside of those jeans

Limits seeing her true being

You see when she looks in the mirror

She wants to see what they see

But see, the angles and curves she sees

Doesn't stop her from seeing misery

It seems...

Imagine if everybody that sees you

Seems to see such a dream

But you seeing so many nightmares 

That you just wanna scream

See

They never see you 

They never see what torments you

Seeing is believing

They'll never see you how you see you

But it seems

that even though people have seen

That things are rarely what they seem 

She still goes unseen

Because seeing what's in those jeans

Limits seeing her true being

I want that ...

I want that black love 

That take me back love

To the days when it was as simple a ball and jacks (childhood game) love 

When do you like me came with boxes

And yes no and maybe were options

I want that black love 

That "this was me and ya daddy song dear"

Older , you realize thats how you got here 

That Im black and im proud

Chanting, fists to the crowds

I want that black love 

And no one was afraid to say it out loud

Show it off in a crowd

When pictures were only black and white

And making up followed after a fight

That take me back love

When your words were your truths 

And you were proud of your roots

I want that, need that, and wont settle for less

I want that black love 

Long for it if I must confess

That take me back love 

**hopeless romantic living in a popcorn generation. Ill be forever waitin**

Unfinished ... 

What Wo{men} Want

"If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise?... See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need." 

-Ms. Lauryn Hill; Rapper; Actress; Creative

When was the last time you took your woman’s trash out at her house? When was the last time you took your woman’s car to get cleaned?  When was the last time you took your woman’s car to get serviced? When was the last time you sent your woman flowers to work?

Ok…. If you don’t know the answer to those first questions, tell me… when was the last time your woman was tripping over some small shit? Let me be clear, there are some women that can’t be pleased, I know this all too well, but right now I want to focus on the ones that can and what it takes to do so. If you ask the average man what women want they’re probably going to tell you a bunch of materialistic things, I can’t fully disagree with this but I just think its deeper than rap! What do women REALLY want? I think women REALLY REALLY REALLY want…. MEN!

If nothing else, what I’ve gradually and thoroughly noticed about women is a seemingly growing desperation to be tough. There’s been decades of the systematic emasculation of black men. The domino effect of that is the disappearance of gender roles and mainly men being men. Primary art of war tactic has been to take black men out of the household whether thru war, intentional drug placement, or welfare regulations that required men to not be in the homes and watch the structure fail. So for the last 30 years women have had to take on the responsibilities of men, regulatory, physically, mentally, financially, disciplinary all while maintaining their traditional domestic responsibilities.  The proof is in the pudding.

Daily on twitter there’s some recycled gender war topic whether it’s the price of dates, should women ever pay on dates, should men always take out the trash, what’s too clingy, who should cook, who should do laundry, etc … all it tells me is that women honestly just haven’t seen enough men be men to know what to expect from one. So in seeing this constantly I was just forced to come to the conclusion that women, even those who seem so materialistic, just really want men! They want what men are supposed to do naturally. They want men to lead them, protect them, console them, compliment them, and to appreciate them… and show that appreciation. Nowadays we get so caught up in not wanting to do more for the other than they are doing for us that it becomes competitive. That’s fear and doubt that I feel naturally women should exhibit, men shouldn’t. Men should eliminate it. However, so many males haven’t been taught how to be men properly so they just learned to be womanizers. They go with what works the most and requires the least. Men and women of this generation have been miseducated and it was prophesized perfectly by Lauryn Hill. That album (The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill) is so great because it exhibits what was happening and has come to fruition; we got distracted so much we forgot how to love… intimately. Communication is the key. Women just have to make a conscious effort of requiring what they need and communicating what they need after themselves, thru self-examination, learning what they need. Because what they really want is often times someone to really look beyond the surface, it’s a war cry. So ladies… What do you need?