Tuesday, June 24, 2008

R2W 2008: FEAR a poem by Tupi

On the first day of R2W we were given a rock and told to write on it what we want to leave behind.


FEAR


Fear like a prison

Feel like a prisoner

Free like a human being

Run like a fugitive


Hide like an animal

Breathe like I'm breathless

Die like I’m living large

Live with a deathwish


Selfless or selfish both

No health benefits so

No one benefits

At least where I live


That’s the reality

Life’s a fact

So for buyers remorse

Cant take your life back


Slow yet steady pace

Words make heavy face

And hearts much heavier

Can’t cry now I was born with barriers


And if the floodgates fail

Its like imam fail too

Breakdown and die

Or work as someone’s tool


Cause life’s no fool

Some say she’s a bitch

She never gave me nothing

But the taught a man to fish


The lessons she learned me

Moved smooth yet deadly

Yearned for her loving

But my mind wasn’t ready


So she nourished me

Fed me, gave me that food

I'm just glad she didn’t feed me

With that heroin spoon


Cause I know some she has

Some who have

Some who don’t

But I can’t be mad


Cause I’m living, loving

Leaving fear behind

Far behind


I just hope it’s in time


- Tupi, R2W 2008 participant

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