- You Could Be My Equal
- I Am America
- How Far Can We Go?
- What is Love?
- Be True to You
Lest you forget
Your sacred writ
To honor God
As “Divine Providence”
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With firm relianceÂ
Upon His protection
To liberate youÂ
From your oppressive brethren
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By justice and prudence
You did pursue
Life, liberty, and happiness
And founded anew
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A declaration of which you
proved such a truth was self-evident
That “All men are created
equal,” is “Unalienable”
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Clear as the laws of nature,
Such as boy meets girlÂ
And that evil seeds do grow and spread
Before a candid world
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“Established government,” is my frame
it should not be changed
“For light and transient causes”
Were made to be retained
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For the soldiers who upheld
My honor by their blood
And the vision of their fathers
Who died in hope of good
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I am America,
God’s country
Remember me
You could be my equal,
if only I could think
past the chainsÂ
of generations of slaves
told you are better than me.
You could be my equal,
if only I could know
that the sovereign God
who made us one
with a single breath did so.
You could be my equal,
if only I could walkÂ
the pathway of my secret dreams;
let the proud naysayers talk.
You could be my equal,
I set out to run
and focus on the course begun,
not status quos or rich men’s woes.
You could be my equal;
thus, I mount up to fly
and soar to liberty and heights beyond
the natural course and sky.
You could be my equal,
if only I believed
that he of whom the Son sets free
is most free indeed.
How far can we go
to the sky?
to the moon?
I would like to know
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How high can we reachÂ
As far as we hope?
As great as we think?
Before pride brings us low
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How bright will we be
As bright as the stars?
Shining over history?Â
The brightest of humanity?
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Time cheers us on
Learn and grow!
Forward we go
Go man! Go!
Love is a Sea:
From its surface to its depth
Love is as vast as the sea
It has many expressions
And takes on many forms
Thus, it is immeasurablyÂ
defined
By its massive wave of captives
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Love is An Attraction:
“It is his business sense,
And dark chocolate handsomeness
Which appeals to me;
Her classy act
And striking beauty;
A loyal friend
The bond of sisterhood
A covenant promise
Remembered whenÂ
I am in love with me
Without end
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Love is a Knowing:
To experience love
is to travel in dimensions
upward is an eagle’s flight of paradise
Downward is a thrust into a lion’s den of jealousy;
To taste the esteemed honor of kings
And to be branded by its torch humiliating
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Love is a Feeling:
I feel the streams of a river quietly
flowing through my veins
The longing of your touch
beckons from my loins and frame
I am caught in the dream;
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What more draws me to youÂ
I do not yet discern the imbue
All perception is lost in the bed
of your marble green eyesÂ
May this moment be sealed forever in time
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Love is a Choice:
Although from withinÂ
a sound may echo
“His road is heartache,”
“Escape her while you can,”
I surrender my strengthÂ
as with the delight of a child in a play pen
Just the thought of him makes my heart race
Therefore, I will ponder on;
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I know,
He drinks like a fish
She parties like an animal
He lies like a rug
She is not Your first choice for me
He is neither your second nor third
But I am in too deep
My soul is tied in the knot of him
Therefore, I hesitate to loosen myself
Lest my heart aches from the tearÂ
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Love is a Hope:
When I surrender my heart to you
I hope you will nurture it, protect it, and remember it;
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My prayers shall be granted
We will blend
into the miracle
of one soul
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Love is a Gift:
The ultimate
In its perfect season
it gives beyond reason;
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He dove beneath the surface
into the deep
when we hated Him
He died for whoever would believe
on Christ’s words would experience the sea of love forever.
The world is a stage
“She’s two-faced”
And “Keep it Real,” Heel
Are all the waysÂ
We wish to say,
“Be true to you”
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Be true to you
Because the mask you see
Is only the me
I want you to
And you may never know
What’s hidden behind
This mind
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Why do we wear so many masks
To impress the people
who put us last?
Gifted but arrogantÂ
And scornful folks
Who use their power to control?
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The demand we let people put on us
The rush
And for what?
To be like them?
To be like me?
Please!
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And why do we try toÂ
Hide what is true
Or try to justify by law
What we do?
Deep inside, there is a conscious
laying within us
That will one dayÂ
be a witness for or against us
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The truth remains the same
Who I am today shouldn’t change
Who I am tomorrow
Unless, I have become better
than I was yesterday
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I cannot be you
You cannot be me
And even if we tried
To duplicate the outside
If you knew my inner struggle
Would you want to be my double?
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We put people higher than God
They let us down because
“He’s not who I though he was”
Well, what did you think?
Remember, God is the only
Authentic “G”
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Just be true to you
Because a hypocrite is anybody trying to be somebody
Without issues while condemning everybody,
and nobody can be
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So, in the end my friend
be true to you
That’s all you can do
Because when we all have to stand
With our masks in our hands
nobody can stand without sin
Without forgiveness from Him
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