• The start of a life
    its a beautiful thing
    parents picking through names
    until they hear that ring
    in the back of their mind
    that says"thats the one"
    just like that
    part of life is done
    now 6 years forward
    skip to the next chapter
    you hear for the first time
    what you now know is a rapper
    and you're pulled away
    and told they are bad for you
    to stay away from them whatever you do
    and anyone who listens to them
    or likes them as well
    up comes the first layer of your hardened shell
    and as you get older and you begin to grow,
    the effects of your shell begin to show
    now 4 years later
    at the age of 10
    sure enough your parents go and "help" you again
    by telling you this
    and telling you that
    and things like
    "be careful, you know that he's black"
    and then once again
    you fear yet another
    just because you were told
    even though he's your brother
    you will hate him for life
    and you'll look down with spite
    for over the years you tell yourself that they're right
    they are mom and they're dad
    they wouldn't lie to me
    they only want to show me so i can see
    what is bad in this world
    and who makes it that way
    until 20 years later
    you have not one little ray
    of hope for mankind
    and your hardened shell
    is now more refined
    thicker and harder and shuts more people out
    for every single one
    are who you were warned about
    its no one but you
    and all others the same
    "only they understand
    only they know the shame
    that has been put upon us"
    as he curses his name
    out loud to himself
    wondering how he could fail
    despite all his effort
    he was to no avail
    he could not stop the black
    the yellow and red
    he wouldn't be happy until they all were dead
    so he continues to live
    his life in pure spite


    50 years pass by
    in bad shape and bad health
    and despite all his connections, fame and wealth
    he couldn't nurse himself back to health
    and as his life comes to an end,
    not even one friend
    or family member
    joins him in his last December
    its Christmas day,
    and time is not to spare
    hourglass grains are growing bare
    and as he starts to give up hope
    he was sent down a heavenly rope
    to hold him up and hold him dear
    and this is how he ended his final year:
    no family no friends
    not one in the end
    for the ones that helped him
    to build up his shell
    of prejudice and hate as deep as a well
    are now long gone and he now sees
    that he has been foolish
    and he begins to leave
    this world for all time....
    but as he begins, he hears the chime
    of a voice in the air
    from across the room
    and it pulls him abruptly
    from his eminent doom
    as he opens his eyes and looks to see
    he says aloud"who's that in front of me?"
    She said in a voice with the comfort of home
    "my name is Katrine i heard you were alone
    on Christmas day, so i left home
    to come here for the night
    and be by your side
    as a volunteer here
    by this rule i abide:
    "skin doesn't matter and race is just that
    and when push comes to shove and your up at bat
    do you want to be judged
    and hated and feared?
    with no logic attached
    just because of what you hear?
    so love one another
    love each as a brother
    sister or mother
    and at the end of the day
    if you don't give that a shot,
    then you wind up alone,
    now who have you got?"
    the man began to speak
    of how wrong that she was
    and how the crime and the death
    fit those people like a glove
    and it was all them
    and in turn their kin
    and as he looked down
    he spotted her skin
    dark and rough
    and just as he thought that he'd had enough
    his thoughts were silenced
    and he knew he was too rough
    and on Christmas day this girl left her home
    and through the streets she must have roamed
    and in the snow and the freezing cold
    all of these and still she's so bold
    as to help him in need
    and he sees that his days
    have been wasted with greed
    despaired and hazed


    his heart had took leave and now that its back he leans in his bed
    and with that very moment he slouched slightly, dead
    but before he had left
    just before the end
    he saw the girls face:
    his first true friend.
    so know this now
    and take to it good,
    there is always time to act like you should
    love one another and help each survive
    and if you don't hate you surely will thrive
    and all it takes,
    all you need, is not to hate
    Did I describe you
    up to this date?
    There is always
    time to change