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7/16/82    You Showed Me		 	12/6/77    I’ve				 8/6/78	 						 1981    Love (3/4 time)						6/7/82						7/6/97

You showed me which road			I’ve seen good times			 I'm Traveling To Places		 		 For all eternaty			  				Stepped upon  					An American Indian was born here.  Their people originally came from Asia (like the Eskimos).  They are distant cousins to the Chinese and
  of life that I should go		I’ve seen bad  			     	I’ve Never Been 			    		My love								Spit upon						Japanese.  Their land was stolen from them by the Europeans who thought them savages because they did not think nor worship as they did.
You showed me what was right		I’ve been happy				 To Places I’ve Never Seen			 Will be with you			 				Slapped						An American African was brought here in chains as an animal by the Europeans who thought them animals and savages because they did not
  and what was wrong   			I’ve been sad 				 	 By Note I’m Traveling	 			 For all the world to see					And hit upon			   		think nor worship as they did.  All other Americans came here basically of their own free will whether indentured or not.  Free to worship
You taught me all in life		I’ve done bad things			     Far Away					    	 	I’ll show								That is the life				and live as they wished.  The Indian did not look down upon the man of dark color.  He saw him as a man.
  that I needed to know			I’ve done good	  			 	 To See Some New Found				 My love for you							of a roach
You taught me the rules			But always I				          Friends			   			 We will always be				   			Hated with zeal				7/2/97    Child
  I follow 	  	  			Have understood				 So Please Be Kind				    		Two hearts	   						Very few feel
Life Makers					Never look back				 And Leave Your Name				 Beating like one							Love for a misrable				Child of Glory
Gods Helpers					Always look forward				 And Put The Place Where	   		 	 So my love you see				 	   	     roach					  	Child of Grace
Dream Builders					Think of the good				     I’ve Been		                         Our love 	   					   	     Although we are clean	  		What in this world
You Taught me well				Never the bad					 Then Send Me On My					 Can’t be undone							And not even mean				Is your Fate
Now I live to tell				I can never stay young			     Way Again						 For eternaty our love						Everyone hates the roach   		Child of Glory
What you showed me				I’ll always get older			 I Thank You					    	 	Will last	 	 							 	   	   				Child of Grace
You showed me the many			This I understand				 From A Friend						 Even though the body dosen’t					1981			  	 	  	  	What of this World
  paths of life there was		So now it’s time			   									 Fate may take us from each												Will You Make
You showed me both the good		That I grow up					 8/6/78	   					    		Others side	  	 	  	  			The hands of time				Child of Glory
  and the bad 	   	   			And face the facts												 This special love that we					Have come full turn				Child of Grace
You showed me what the prices		        of life				 A Greeting To You	 				 Have for each other						And soon I will be gone	  		Your Fate In This
  of living was	   	   		And try to do better			 From Far Away  	  				 Will never ever ever  						So now my child	   			Awaits
You showed me until I understood	In this sometimes	  	 	 	 Please Leave Your  		               Ever die	   	   	  	   	   	       	The time has come	 	  		Child of Glory
Life Makers	  		  		        unhappy life		               Name	   		 							  	   					For you to carry on				Child of Grace
Gods Helpers					I’ve started to do better		 And Send Me Away 					 1997						   			The things you’ll do  	 		May God’s Hand
Dream Builders					Of this I’m very glad  							 														Will be your own				Guide your Pace
You taught me well			     No longer will this person		 1981 							 Daughter,		 		 				So do them well and true
Now I live to tell				 	   me	 	  	   																				You have my trust and
What you showed me				Be so very sad	  	   			 The autumn wind is blowing			 God said, It’s time to come home, 	   		All the luck that fate
Now I teach the rules of life	   	  	   					          gently down the lane			 your Job here has been well done,			 	Allows to you
  that I was taught	  	 	 	2/8/82						 The leaves are swiftly floating		 your room awaits, your rest well earned.	 	The time is near when
I show what is right and										 	down the flowing stream			 Take my hand child, its time, come on		 	I must go, so let me end
  what is wrong		 		Up above the world so high		 The clouds are lightly skipping		 With silent goodbye for those left behind,	 	My talk
I point out the paths of life  		   far far away			 	across the clear blue sky	 	 she took his hand, raised her eyes.			My child remember though
  that some should go 	 		Is the place where dreams abide	 And I just sit here dreaming	 		 With God’s grace she went home,				I’ve not oft said
I teach all in life that’s		        far far away		  	 	Only God knows why		 		 led in glory for a job well done			  	I do do love you so
  needed to know
Life Makers					4/30/82
Gods Helpers
Dream Builders"		   		Blue eyes  Brown eyes
You taught me well				Grey eyes  Green
Now I live to tell				Lovely colors this time
What you showed me	 	 			   of Spring

1981							   		 	  	   	   	  	  	  		 		 		6/7/82    Plight of A Snake (uncensored)

Hello.  I’m memory.  It’s been some time since I last talked to you.  Do you remember me?			There I was, lying on my goddamn rock when a fucking idiot damn near fell on me.  I excused the stupid bastard because I figured that he
No, well it has been some time.  Maybe if I tell you how it was, you’ll remember.   			 	couldn’t help himself.  So I went back to sunning myself on my rock.  No sooner than when I get good and damn near comfortable when another
When last I saw you, I told you how happy I was.  How it was between me and my family.  	  			prick almost steps on me.  Now I’m good and fucking mad.  I want to bite the shit out of that son of a bitch.  I want to get him where it
Remember now?  You do.  Good!  You’ve noticed that I’m alone now.  I’ve traveled all over 		  	will hurt the most.  I take aim and start my motion when to my surprise the fuckin bastard pulls out a goddamn cannon and blows my fuckin 
the world.  Seen the good and the bad.  The happy and the sad.  Now I spend most of my time 			head off.  Now that is the plight of a goddamn snake.  
here, alone.  Those members of my family who are like me, are somewhere else now.  Only  
those who are thought of haven’t faded away.  I guess soon we will all fade.  Nowadays we are			5/24/82    Let Her Stay 
seldom thought of.  Memories fade you know, after a while.  My family has other things to do 
now.  Time has put a blanket over their minds.  They no longer think of those who have passed. 		I heard him softly crying as we both lay abed.  I wanted to say to him, please dear don’t be sad.  He rose and went to the window.  He
Only those who remain are thought of.  Oh occasionally I try to get them to remember, but they 		looked up to the sky, and as the stars shone down on him I heard him softly cry.  “Please, let her stay, let her stay here forever.  Oh 
shake me off.  So now I sit, alone and waiting, waiting for my time to fade away.  If only  	 	   	please, I do pray let her stay here with me.”  My heart filled with sadness to see him in this way.  I wish I hadn’t told him what the
they would stop rushing towards tomorrow and think of yesterday sometimes.  Oh the memories 	   		doctor had to say.  I was slowly dying, my life had been too hard.  My family thought the fault was theirs, I told them don’t be absurd.
they would bring up.  The doors they would open.  The tears of remembrance they would shed.	  	   	“Please, let her stay, let her stay here forever.  Oh please, I do pray, let her stay” he cried to God.  I rose and went to join him.  I
Then those of us who have passed on would know that while we were waiting for those who still			held him in my arms.  A shaft of moonlight hit us, we both felt much more calm.  The light grew much more brighter, our hearts grew more at
had to come, we were not forgotten.  It is such a terribly sad thing to be forgotten.				peace.  A glow was all around us as we heard a soft voice speak.  “Yes, she may stay, but not to stay forever, oh yes, she may stay, stay
 		   	   		 	   															right there with you.”
6/4/96    Like Most People Here																		 	 	
		  	   			   																		
I was born in America, like most people here.  I am American, like most people here.  But , I
am not native American, like most people here.  I am also not immigrant American, like most
people here.  I am American of African descent, like a lot of people here.  I am not Afro-American
(like a lot of people claim) because I was not born in Africa.  I was born in America, which makes
me an American.  My descendants were taken from Africa unwillingly and brought to this country to
be slaves to others.  This makes my people unique amoung Americans.  The native Americans were
already here.  They had their land stolen from them.  The immigrant American came here from Europe,
Asia and other countries of their own free will for the opportunities the new land afforded them.
They are the ones who stole the land from the natives.  Even the bonds people are in the immigrant
catagory.  But I meander.  I am an American African whose heritage has been damaged because much
of it has been lost or was unknown.  No matter what I do this fact will always remain true.  I cannot
be called black, because the color of my skin is not.  I cannot be called nigger, because I am not the
lowest form of life on this earth.  I cannot be called dumb, stupid, or ignorant, because I am not.  I
am like most people here.  There is really no difference.  Yet why is it that certain immigrants would
treat me as if I were a beast to bear their burdens.  Were my descendants savages because they looked
different, thought different, talked different (like most people here).  Were the natives, who were
already here.  No, I think not.  I look back and see what other American Africans have done which proves
my way of thinking.  Those who have forgotton or who never knew should remember or learn.  Then just maybe
some of us would stop hurting each other, stop killing each other and help each other to overcome fully
what has been done to the Afro-Americans and American Africans.  The American Africans cannot go back to
where they came from.  They are already here.  Like most people here, we are home

10/27/97        Love

Love, everlasting love knows not familial relationships. Knows not any bounderies.
Knows not any color.  Yet there are many types of love.  The love of family, friend, life, etc.
 
The love of life.
    To live life to its fullest, enjoying it as much as possible, but because medical and non-
medical people say don’t eat this or that, don’t do this or that and you’ll live longer, life
is not enjoyed as it is supposed to be.  We work to hard to obtain that which we cannot take
with us when we pass on.  One of the laws of nature, all things pass on.

The love of a friend.
   Standing by you even if you are foolish, yet being supportive even when you have done wrong.
Willing to lend an unasked for helping hand when it could be done.  Not letting hardships and
difficulties get in the way of true friendship.  Not letting long distances wear it away.  Not
letting the bad sides of being human take advantages.  Always being a true friend.

The love of family.
   The love between man and woman, parent and child, sibling and sibling, relation and relation.
An everlasting love that should always be no matter how angry one gets towards another.  Who gave
life to the child?  Man and woman.  Who protects who?  Man, woman, sibling and/or relation.  Who
would kill or die for who?  All.  Yet, why is it that all turn away from each other?  Especially
when angry with each other.  That is a difficult question to answer.  Who can.  Not I.

Love, true everlasting love never goes away.  Love, true everlasting love knows no color.  Love,
true everlasting love has no bounderies.


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