Shedding Tears

aijalon
aijalon Members Posts: 919
edited May 2011 in Waiting To Exhale
Here’s my soul in my hand
This world took more from me than any man can
Lesser men fell to their knees yet still here I stand
They say shedding these tears don’t make you no man

Delvin Lanton’s body washed up on the shore
Dope fiend for decade no one missed him no more
They say ? won the battle. I’d like to believe you won the war.
Death owes me a brother. I long to settle the score.

Learned of your death surfing the web
Still haunted by the fact that my brother is dead
And these thoughts racing around in my head
Keep me tossing and turning on some nights in my bed
Sometimes I wish that it was not him but me instead
Reminiscing on happier days as tears are shed

Some days I remember Allen’s smiling face
Flew off the back of a bike. Gone so young what a waste.
Guess it’s useless longing to take his place
Can’t forget the pained look on his dear mother’s face.

How do you console a mother who’s just lost her child.
Embraced her tightly and held on for a while.
The ambulance left you. Said you’d been thrown a mile.
You laid there dying in the grass all the while.

Kim when you left you promised to be back real soon.
Now you’re clinging to life in a hospital room.
Beautiful life transitioning like the flowers that bloom
A donor wasn’t found; that spelled your doom

Candie I could never forget you.
And how just a week prior I’d promised to come get you.
Remember how mad I’d get when my boys would sweat you?
Speeding on the highway is where death met you.

Mac my big cousin always there for me
Devastated by the news that you fell off a tree
They say that you didn’t suffer. Claim that you’re free
But some days I’d much rather you here than this memory.

Here’s my soul in my hand
This world took more from me than any man can
Peers down on their knees but here I stand
Yet they say shedding tears don’t make you no man

Comments

  • Tupacfan
    Tupacfan Members, Moderators Posts: 2,428 Regulator
    edited April 2011
    Dang, this one hit hard! fa real.. I can really say I feel this more than any other peices I have read in a while.. best ever prose!

    Kim when you left you promised to be back real soon.
    Now you’re clinging to life in a hospital room.
    Beautiful life transitioning like the flowers that bloom
    A donor wasn’t found; that spelled your doom

    that rigth there was something else... put's me in Kim's shoes for a minute..

    thanks for sharing this piece..
  • aijalon
    aijalon Members Posts: 919
    edited April 2011
    Appreciate it missus
  • damobb2deep
    damobb2deep Members Posts: 19,972 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2011
    real talk i felt this.... very well put.... even tho i didnt kno those people i could relate cuz like us all we have lost people... and those deaths really hit home u should not cry cuz they in a better place but the hurt that they not with you still takes over sometime.....