a.k.a “Poetic Flow” – Chicago, Illinois

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In this time of violence

Let’s not be silent

But lift up our eyes

Beyond the skies

Knell down on our knees

Ask GOD for peace

To make this violence cease

Do away with this beast

That keeps stealing our youth

Like a little kid loosing a tooth

They keep falling

We keep calling

Sirens sounding in the night

Glaring through our windows so bright

Another child has been shot

And no one knows what its about

But gunshots keep ringing out

Click, click – pop, pop

How do we teach a generation

Give them better stimulation

Job training and education

So there is always a hesitation

Of allowing the streets to get to their head

And find yet another one dead

Because they didn’t like what was said

We need to reach our young people

Stop them from being so lethal

With the iron they carry that leads to killings

Of hundreds, thousands and millions

But instead transform that aggression

Into a succession

Of youths who will rise above the odds

Through the grace and mercy of GOD

Be positive productive women and men

Breaking out of a lifestyle that only condemns

I’m talking to you my sisters and my brothers

Who feel like you have no others

Who can appreciate the true talents you possess

Let me put you to the test

Put down that gun or your source of weapon

Let me hear what you are rep’n

I believe in you if don’t believe in yourself

Because I know you are undoubtedly blessed

Because I pray for you every night

Although you are not in my sight

Because I want a better life for you

And I know many of you do too

I know this world isn’t always kind

And sometimes it’s the tie that binds

You from rights and wrongs

As you move along

Your days and nights

Trying to avoid confrontation and fights

But I urge you to not fall into the temptation

Of this horrible degradation

Of killing and hurting each other

So many funerals of young brothers

It has to end

Many have lost too many family and friends

We cannot continue to live as we are

Scared to walk to the store or sit in your car

For fear of a bullet taking your life

This is true agony, true strife

So my young people, I need you to understand

Please stop taking the lives of a young woman or man

Cease this violent streak and take a stand

And I’ll continue to knell down with Praying Hands

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