…Feelings
By Michael Wright
…Feelings
That which make up my emotional tapestry
What bleeds me, uncomfortable situations
Nothing similar to familiar failures
NAY!
For these demand, second and third attempts
Da kind that causes logic to lose its mind
…Feelings
Why he’ll travel to three different stores
In search of a particular brand of ice cream
Or tolerate some ridiculous reality show
As well as a cross genre song
Da very thing he longs to know again
…Feelings
That which are worth their emotion
You
By Michael Wright
First, I ever felt un-clever
Had to be thoughts about you
My angles stagnate round you
I stay lost in da sauce about you
First, I ever misplaced my cool
Had to come up missing round you
I searched high and low about you
But not an inch of it surfaced round you
Da second and third, stuttering words
Stammered out of my mouth about you
Fourth and fifth attempts at my gift
Were clearly unsalvageable round you
Defeat has never felt as sweet
As it does every time I’m round you
And just so you know, da minute I’m let go
I’ll be living my best life…round you
TESTIMONY
By Michael Wright
HOOK»
“This is my testimony-this is my testimony-everything I say out my mouth is not phony” X3
I was hired to do a job because I was a gangster in them streets>but I feel like I got robbed because I know I got beat
How ya’ll tell on me ‘bout some shit you didn’t see yourself>I swear fo lord man I shoulda just stayed to myself
I took care of my business and the next day I found out the whole deal went left
This is my testimony-this is my testimony (ad-lib)
I didn’t bust my gun and then hit the throttle>I grabbed my lighter and threw two gas filled beer bottles
The dudes that hired me told on me and the system said gobble gobble
Now it’s five lives gone and my life lost>and every day I ask them for forgiveness as I pray to the boss
They set me up-they set me up (ad-lib)
I didn’t know those people were in the house>cause if I did I woulda made them get out
They set me up-they set me up (ad-lib)
Why they didn’t tell me them people was in there>make me feel like them dudes really didn’t care
And why they tell on me and write all them statements>I guess they really must be complacent
Ya’ll set me up (ad-lib)
(HOOK)X3»
This is my testimony-this is my testimony-everything I say out my mouth is not phony
This is my testimony that they really did not know me>cause it wasn’t about the money but because you was my hommie
And I guess it didn’t matter that we was all from the same city because look what ya’ll did me
They set me up-they set me up (ad-lib)
This is bigger than I stand tall>keep your mouth shut and I would have never took the fall>cause this story is about what you did to me and never about what I didn’t do ya’ll
They set me up-they set me up (ad-lib)
This is my testimony-this is my testimony (ad-lib)
And what about the guy whose house it was cause this your fate um facin>like a coward you left your family behind>the true reason they died of smoke inhalation
You could have saved them (ad-lib)
You jumped out the window to save your own hide>now um sitting in prison serving all of your time
Why you still them bricks (ad-lib)
You maintained that you never had any involvement>but you really was insolvent
You maintained that you never had any involvement>but you really started it
The maintained they never had any involvement>but they all involved me
Nobody admitted they was all is the basement>but they all wrote statements
They set me up-they set me up (ad-lib)
(HOOK)X3
This is my testimony-this is my testimony-everything I say out my mouth is not phony
Caged
By Michael Wright
Awaken out of a dream by a chirping caged bird. I can feel it’s pain, but I cannot understand it’s words. What was it’s crime that it has been locked in a cage within a cage? That is double pain, so I can understand why it constantly chirps with rage, because like myself it is stuck in a cage. This cage has my flesh but it shall never entrap my mind. Minute by minute and day by day obstacles continue to try and prevent me from doing time. They try to silence my words just like so many caged up birds. Poor bird has wings and yet it is still unable to soar. Like that bird, my heart is caged but you can still hear its roar. Oh, caged bird, it is sad they have taken us from our habitat. Some day I will figga out a way for us to get back. I guess until then, all we can do is remain strong as we allow our wings to constantly dry flap.
Poem
By Michael Wright
From afar he saw a star, and within that star he saw her love, and within that love he saw which resides above. From above came the guidance of light, and that light lead to another sitting in a dark place, and when the two embraced they realized that there was no darkness that could ever take away the joy placed upon each other’s face.
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