Lesson
5: It is time to wake up. As I look
around the world, the things that are happening daily saddening my heart, but
yet I still I have and unexplainable hope for a better tomorrow. The reality is
that it is time to wake up. We should always strive to be better than we were
the day before.
“For
although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave him thanks
to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts darkened.”
Romans 1:20
THE REALITY
The reality is that the lust of the
world and the temporary feelings of pleasure have trapped us into the deceitful
mind frame that has caused us to neglect the realities of real life situations
That our black communities are being
plagued by the reality of aids, selfishness, and greed
The reality that instead of being
restrained by the prejudices of society…
We continue to trap ourselves in the
webs of repeated history of poverty and the streets
The reality is that we have got to teach
our children who they are and where they come from
But where we come from does not define
the product of who we are
The reality that America isn’t getting
any better so we must not hide and run from our troubles
The reality that we have got to face the
fear of failure
The reality that our babies are having
babies
The reality that our black men are
getting fewer and fewer
The reality that our children are being
raised in front of the television instead of by their parents
The reality that we are crying out,
crying out, crying out for help but no one is listening
The reality that mental deprivation has
an effect on a child that has to watch his father beat his mother
The reality of the tears continuously
being shed over the same type of situations because the next person thought it
couldn’t happen to them
The reality that blood has been shed
over innocent lives and drugs are still killing
The reality that a young woman would do
anything, even sale her child for drugs
Searching for an unreachable high
through the insanities of the world
We will never reach that destination
The reality is…
If you want purpose…
If you want to go anywhere in life…
You have got to wake up and take action…
Starting with the person starting you
back in the mirror
The
Illusion
I begin to evaluate the things in my
life
The acquisition of things,
relationships, and endless strife
Seeing a future stretched out in a path
of wait
Getting lonely in the midst of fate
The illusions of Satan’s fulfillment of
sexual desires
Being young and still yet tired
Satan plays tricks with the minds of the
young
But it never measures up and it only
gets you hung
Hung up on lies that lead to hate
Hung up on greed that you didn’t even
anticipate
Hung up in situations
Leaving your heart filled with pain
Blocking out the world
In the midst of your shame
Blaming it on others and where you come
from
Blaming on society and the glamour of
smoking crack and sipping rum
Trying to erase your problems
But they still remain
Emotions so bottled up
You wouldn’t know love if it called your
name
Baby, Jesus is the only way to find
peace
Among the insecurities of grief
Tried him for myself
And now I have relief
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