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Honey

I've been missing you I should be kissing you, I wouldn't tell a lie got a love I can't deny. Late-night I listen for your call it never really matter how you came and went like ocean tides silently falling against a sandy beach. I close my eyes and I see you clear It feels like you're lying here next to me, Honey come back to me. Your love was so sweet like an open flower in bloom I'm dizzy from the time we spent together I thought it would be forever. I keep dreaming about your honey dip sweet sugar-coated lips and loli-pop fingertips. You know that I adored you its the way you loved me that kept me stuck on you like honey glue. "When no one would protect you I'm sorry I wasn't around to make them respect you." "I loved you cause you were my Honey even when I didn't have any money." Now you free among the angels "Babe" bee who you are Mother Nature made you smile on the rising sun there will be no more...

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The Last One Standing

We may not directly control the politics in government; white corporate America, educational institutions, Hollywood, the judicial system, and financial institutions, but one thing we do have absolute control over is our own lives and choices that we make. I know choices can be influenced by our circumstances: the reality of police brutality, drugs, unemployment, poverty, broken families, poor education, and gang violence. Personal responsibility is a hard pill to swallow because it is easy to wallow in the misery of being a victim. “I have a felony conviction and can’t find a job so I’m going back to the streets” is an attitude too many young brothers commit to. Too often the fear of incarceration is no longer a deterrent for not going to prison. Lockdown has become a badge of honor rite of passage that some brothers proudly proclaim membership.  It’s difficult to have hope when your future is unclear, unpredictable and bleak because you have an arrest record that the job ma...