Sometimes, I feel like
Life is real like
August the 29th
Or Emitt Till like
Jesus is real
Like Israel
Like is he real
Or could he feel
Like we could chill
Like we'd be real
Like Jada and Will
Or Oprah and TP
But, he don't see me
Still I stay breezy
And I be easy
Sumthin like Lil Weezy
Or Kanyeezy
Even Young Jeezy
Cuz, "I Put On For My City"
Reppin Big Easy
Born in the 9th
Raised in the UPT
See, I be goin on like
"Man, I hope y'all feel me"
Not like Kirt Cobane
More like Purple Rain
Remember Soul Train?
Or John Coltrane?
Or when Jill Scott sang?
Or when freedom rang
It's like gold rope chains
Or slave chain gangs
Like the sound of a man
Working on chain, gang
Or the sound of your man
Working just to stay, sane
Like a head above water
Like my dad's daughter
Or Shawn Carter
"I hustler homey"
Just ask my mother
I can rock a fella
Like Barack can sell a
Dream to a fiend
Make 'em wanna come clean
And make it all seem
Like it was pre-desteened
Or pre-destined
Like my best friend
Like African
Like this world is mine
Like one poem at a time
Like it's still a poem
Though the words don't rhyme
Like it's still a storm
Though the sun's gone shine
Like if I don't write
Then I don't live
And if I don't fight
Then I don't give
A damn about community
I'm serious 'bout this unity
I'm rearing up the youth to be
The leaders of this future
See, its gotta start with you and me
So, we gotta spark a new beginning
Cuz, I can't feel you
If I don't heal me
See, some days I feel like crying
And some nights I feel like dying
But, each day I wake up trying
And I'd be straight up lying
If I said these times weren't trying
Like the blood on diamonds
Like the flood and Don Imus
Pulling the rug over my eyes is
Like a flood of FEMA lies
Is like drugs dropped from the skies
Is like love within the skies
Is like love within their eyes
Is like love within a lie
Is like love even when they lie
Is like love even when they lie
Is like love
Like love
Even when life runs dry
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About Me
- Lifestyles of a Diva Named Peaches
- New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- I'm an inter-national spoken word artist who teaches spoken word performance and history in the New Orleans Recovery School District. I am also a mentor to each of my students. I am CEO of DivaStating Arts & Entertainment Group, LLC which is a multi-media company specializing in: PR, Advertising, Promotions, Event Planning & Artist Development. I work as a: Events Consultant Fashion Consultant Publicist I also have an internship program for any college students wanting to gain knowledge in arts & cultural entertainment industry Additionally, I started The Sankofa Project as a structured means of reach so many of the young souls that I come across that need a positive outlet for their frustrations, pains, for their story. I'm basically a young sista who view the world through a poets eyes and feels that sometimes it doesn't hurt to just loose yourself in a rhyme because the divine can and will heal the word in due time...if we let it or write it.
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