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"commonalties" poems
Black/White Life isn’t just… Black or White, Up or down, Wrong or Right But shades of gray, on a rainy day When a family cries, *** another member died While religion lies, and the churches are fake And you’ll find better salvation by getting baked All this aggression bursting at my seams All from figuring out what it finally means I look into a mirror and it makes me want to scream But insides my head plays a silver screen Life isn’t just black or white, but shades of gray Just like a cloudy sky, on a rainy day Fight or Flight, War or Peace, Life or Death But shades of gray brought on by decay Of bodies littering streets to close to home Blood and guts and exposed bone Ash soot and cinders on houses stone Cities growing corrupt, bankrupt, ingrown But these great graveyards still hold hope People live, fighting through all the smoke Hope for future still unknown evoked Do or Die, Love or Hate, Day or night But shades gray found only at twilight That binds the two, combines the two Just like commonalties that ties us to Everyone on earth, both old and new Does matter what race, creed, or view We’re all stuck together in the same boat So don’t try to sink it, make it float All while singing out this very note Life isn’t just black or white, but shades of gray Just like a cloudy sky, on a rainy day Left or Right, Better or Worse, boy or girl Doesn’t matter how you came to this world What matters isn’t what you take from it But what you make of it, Create from it What you awake in it, and remake in it There are no shortcuts you can take in this And resist the temptation to not coexist Try to remember my rhyme deep in your mind And remember the lines are never defined Life isn’t just black or white, but shades of gray Just like a cloudy sky, on a rainy day Life isn’t just black or white… Life isn’t just black or white… Life isn’t just black or white…
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Jun 3, 2011
Jun 3, 2011 at 10:54 PM UTC
thomas-j-ebert
Black/White
Black/White Life isn’t just… Black or White, Up or down, Wrong or Right But shades of gray, on a rainy day When a family cries, *** another member died While religion lies, and the churches are fake And you’ll find better salvation by getting baked All this aggression bursting at my seams All from figuring out what it finally means I look into a mirror and it makes me want to scream But insides my head plays a silver screen Life isn’t just black or white, but shades of gray Just like a cloudy sky, on a rainy day Fight or Flight, War or Peace, Life or Death But shades of gray brought on by decay Of bodies littering streets to close to home Blood and guts and exposed bone Ash soot and cinders on houses stone Cities growing corrupt, bankrupt, ingrown But these great graveyards still hold hope People live, fighting through all the smoke Hope for future still unknown evoked Do or Die, Love or Hate, Day or night But shades gray found only at twilight That binds the two, combines the two Just like commonalties that ties us to Everyone on earth, both old and new Does matter what race, creed, or view We’re all stuck together in the same boat So don’t try to sink it, make it float All while singing out this very note Life isn’t just black or white, but shades of gray Just like a cloudy sky, on a rainy day Left or Right, Better or Worse, boy or girl Doesn’t matter how you came to this world What matters isn’t what you take from it But what you make of it, Create from it What you awake in it, and remake in it There are no shortcuts you can take in this And resist the temptation to not coexist Try to remember my rhyme deep in your mind And remember the lines are never defined Life isn’t just black or white, but shades of gray Just like a cloudy sky, on a rainy day Life isn’t just black or white… Life isn’t just black or white… Life isn’t just black or white…
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