I never knew a luh, luh luh, a love like this..
To tell the truth, I ain't been familiar with a hate like this either
That true love depicted on stained glass in cathedrals
Painted windows showing the untainted sacrifice made by Jesus because His people missed the mark..
Though the deep hate that prompted Yahweh to commission Noah to craft an ark
And spare his family from a wet wrath..
That love felt within a present dad there to witness a son come to recognize his own potential..
But the hate of a son towards an absent father
And adopted a 5 point star as his mentor
All is Well..
Well unless sidewalks blackened by gunpowder
And a forcibly made, now-single-child toddler's tear showers causes you the same sickness I've fallen victim to.
Coughing on words I just cannot seem to utter
To comfort a Queen.. a mother who's lost her young onyx prince to a shot through his heart delivered by a registered Smith and Wesson
That was legally carried due in part to the passing of a 3 dollar bill that never made any sense..
Even in this land of Lincoln, these legislators still wouldn't give a penny for your thoughts.
Only big boy cash accepted
In Illinois coin slots by these NRA "yes men", lobbied by trigger happy millionaires
That are deaf to the screams bellowed through wind pipes, out of wide open jaws by our scared..
In desperate need of repair..
Chicago youth.
Thus far, CPS halls are loudened by 28 less heartbeats..
And they want MORE guns on our streets?
That means more business for Gatling and Leak’s
More commemorative candles
More damsels in distress
More hammers in hands of men not wearing orange vests
More reasons to send my 8 year old cousins to bus stops with teflons on their chests..
Chicago, I guess.. This is a love-hate thing we got going huh?
Because in the night, there’s nothing like the love of just.. being in you
Then you give reason for hate by morning when I flip to NBC news am greeted by the face of Jesse Jackson.
Speaking in rhymes about yet another young voice made mime..
Mute.
Trapped by an invisible box made real
Red cedar and steel
Manufactured just to be submerged in earth 6 feet.
Now.. I speak
Cause they can’t..
Cause you don’t..
Cause they in Springfield won’t respond to your hot-anger.
Your fruitless attempts of displaying "social dissatisfaction" through flash mobs
And I'm not talking the kind that dance.
I mean the kind that ride up to the Gold Coast just to break hands on old folks
Terrorizing 70 year old men..
For what?
Recreation?
Playing "Point him out, Knock him out"
While CPD would rather play
"Point him out, Chalk him out"
And speaking of,
There's more chalk on our cold concrete streets than in our classrooms
Nowadays kids will go to school
Just to have sex with a classmate in the bathrooms.
You think these North Siders don't see us and think "Well look at these Baboons..
Don't even have a moral code
Or an ounce of integrity by which to live.
And yet these teachers want to protest for these kids?
Want to invest in these kids?"
Chicago, I hate the sour taste you leave in my mouth, but I'll tell you what the recipe is for a sweeter savor..
Stop looking for some white collar savior
In disguise, who's probably just another white hooded slaver.
Let's pull OURSELVES up from the status of another species endangered..
Redirect that pain, that anger into motivation for achievement..
I cant speak for us all, but I'M TIRED of bereavements..
Small caskets..
10 year-old girls shaking their.. Tails.
I know this relationship we got ain't exactly that of a fairy tale,
There's plenty to hate..
But there's yet room to save love..
To save lives..
To save Chi.
