"Where the starzz come to shyne!"
Why?

Why was I chosen to live this life?
Why was I chosen to have to have this fight?

I was born as Jeremy known in the streets as four five.
I did what I had to, to survive.

I was a preacher by day and a hustler by night.
I was still trying to live my life for Christ.

I t didn’t seem the fit into my every day life style.
I would walk that every mile so my money can pile.

My life was hard but all the while
on my face I kept a smile.

I often times find my self home alone
I began to pray to God to see where I belong but it

seem as if I can't get God on the phone.
God can you hear me now?

Still no there was no answer. I wonder if he’s listening.
God can you hear me now?

Maybe he’s not there. Maybe he’s doesn’t care.
Or was he ever there?

God I got to get a grip on my sin
so I can began again
and become the man from within.

I had a dream like dr. martin Luther king;
the speech he spoke about freedom.
Let freedom ring
let freedom ring.
The freedom I need had to come from within.

I ask myself why? All this trails as a black man.

Here I was a boy trap in the body of a man.
I need guidance and someone the lead me by the hand.

Why are there so many stereotypes about the black man?
Stereotypes like all black men are dogs, lazy, and no good. Why?
Because some of come from the hood.
Why is the black man so misunderstood?

Stereotypes like I am a thug because my pants sometimes hang low
or is because I have a fro? Or because I have tattoos more than four.

Maybe it’s because I have a grill or I just keep it too real?

Before you judge me, get to know me.
I am more than these clothes you see.

Yes my hair is twisted, but I am not
so don't you get it twisted.

Think twice before you call me a thug.
My dress code maybe a silent cry for a hug.

I hide my problems and pain in sex, money, and drugs but it didn’t help.


Why all these trails as a black man?
Would it be different if I was in the body of a white man?
No. Why? Problems or problems and we a have them.

I have 99 problems God can you solve them?
I have 99 problems God can you solve them?

Could I have made it without one single friend?
Or without God on whom I depend?

Then the song comes to mind.
That says I would a have never made without you.
Because I had you to hold on too.

I was trying the live my life the best I can.
Trying to be the man next to the man. The man next to God
that is. Then I realize I was God.

God in principle not personality.
You see our name deprive from the family
We were born into. So I was born in the mind
Of God now I exist in time. This is not another rhythm.

Ps.82:6 says I have I not said you are gods ye children of the
He most high. When I realize this principle
I wanted to cry. Why? Because now I can create
my environment.

No longer am I bent, bent by the stresses of life
I have truly found Christ.

No longer do I pray up above, I pray from within
that’s where God is and begins.

Some times I found myself sad. I lost so many friends
I thought I had.

People around me bleeding, lying, crying, and dying.
I was still trying to live this life y'all call crime

People around me dying from guns, aid, police, killing each.
Children dying from starvation.
We spend billions to help feed other nations.

This my biggest fear so before a shed a tear, if
we want to help someone lets first start here.

Why are some many kids in the streets alone?
There have no where to call home.
Mom has left and daddy long been gone.
Sound like another sad song?

Why has the economy gone bad
since the last black president we had? I meant Bill.
Wasn’t he for real. Obama will be the next president that to
shall be revealing. Now back to Bill, you say he was white
you are right but some of the things he did my him look black
Or had black ten dices

let’s see got caught up in a scandal for getting some head,
And his business Monica did spread.

When ask about the ordeal.
He answer was I never had relations with that woman.

Trying to cover his back,
does that sound black?

What he wanted his wife lack?
All the while she had his back.

Does that sound black?

They ask him did he every some marijuana. His response was
I smoked but I didn’t inhale. Short after that I all fell.
Does that sound black?

Why are people still overdosing on crack?
Why are we in America and still suffer from lack?
Why some black women wait on the government to pick up the slack?
Because the dead beat daddy have turn his back.

Let go back in the slavery days when men were taken from
There family. That spirit is alive today.
The cruse can be broken if us men
Get on our knees and pray.

There’s all was a reason why we go through
so when you don’t cry. Ask God one question.
My Name is Envoy AKA Elder Jeremy. I am a
minister of God and l am a poet. I just
started doing sets. I also write small plays.
Everything I write comes from the heart. It's
real.
Envoy
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