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CHARITY
<p>They say charity begins at home</p><p>But no one talks about the types of homes</p><p>Familes that fight at night</p><p>And wake to morning devotions </p><p>First Singing songs like in the morning </p><p>I will rise and praise the Lord</p><p>Then later press the ones he gave me </p><p>Rule His gifts </p><p>With an iron fist</p><p>Building tall walls and fences</p><p>Through phrases</p><p>That sentence their kids</p><p>Even before they learn to speak </p><p>A good child must have good grades</p><p>Stay indoors, face book and play no games</p><p>In my father's house there are many rooms</p><p>but no window for love</p><p>Fancy roofs</p><p>Without roots</p><p><br/></p><p>Fathers that pick</p><p>Mothers that milk</p><p>Even when grown </p><p>They'd peak milk you</p><p>Into chaos</p><p>With their picky blinders</p><p>They keep you static</p><p>Then guilt trip you</p><p>They want you humble </p><p>So they crumble you</p><p>Preach dysfunctional virginity </p><p>Bind the girls</p><p>Free the boys</p><p>Teach the girls</p><p>Boys be boys</p><p>Close it</p><p>Open up</p><p>Pink dolls</p><p>Black guns</p><p>Dismantled couples</p><p>Who's the better lover</p><p>The one in the driver's seat</p><p>Or owners corner</p><p><br/></p><p>Families that Lexus together stick together </p><p>Or is it for those </p><p>Honda one Accord</p><p>If we're creatures of influence</p><p>Let's create chores that build</p><p>And not sow seeds</p><p>Nor raise kids </p><p>Dressed to be the weapon fashioned </p><p>Against their neighbors </p><p>Kids who fight their brothers</p><p>Because they were told to</p><p>Love their neighbors </p><p>As themselves</p><p>But not taught how to love themselves</p><p><br/></p><p>The golden rule</p><p>Is perhaps not for </p><p>Children raised in mines</p><p>At dawn </p><p>they fall in ashes</p><p>Shivering while searching for precious stones</p><p>So when they become stone cold killers</p><p>Remember they were once under solid rocks</p><p>With no foundations of their own</p><p>These kids with bountiful imaginations</p><p>But can only afford to</p><p>Draw their next meal</p><p>Before their dreams </p><p>Some draw their their last breathe</p><p>And live everyday as though it could be their last</p><p>They carryon broken crayons </p><p>crafted with coal tears</p><p>On a borrowed and blank canvas</p><p><br/></p><p>Family is more than blood </p><p>Ties that divide</p><p>So unite it </p><p>Value it</p><p>Build it</p><p>Make yours more than a reflection </p><p>of that which you were raised in</p><p>So we don't recycle trauma</p><p>If charity began at home</p><p>Then why hasn't she returned home?</p>
CHARITY
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Samuel Ibok
Samuel Ibok
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