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Kenneth White

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The answers to our questions exist.
I have seen them for myself.

Why do black folks seem to fulfill
the adage of cursing the darkness
but dismantling the lighthouse?
Why do we complain
about the waning positive thoughts
in our Top 20 countdowns, box office sales
and shallow meditations impregnating open mics?

The answers to our hardships exist.
I have lived them for myself.

Disgruntled parents and frustrated activists
tell Ed Gordon about how they hope
for more artists to elevate solutions over problems.
It takes me less than a minute to remember
numerous no-name lyricists who lay
their hard knocks lessons on the everlasting arms
which orchestrate and support our very circumstances.
Do our activists really seek change?
Are these parents looking hard enough?
Who will step forth to challenge popular
falsehoods with a lyrical sling shooting
unpredictable flows like five smooth stones?

I have seen the horizons for myself,
so let the disciples who poplock
to Chinese Arithmetic on Sugar
and Cypress Hill now meet me
and other visionaries on Calvary's zenith.
May none of us buckle under pressure
as we yodel along with Lauryn
that "fantasy is what we want,
but reality is what we need."

The answers to these mysteries exist.
I have sought them for myself.

It is a typical case of power, payment and
pretending to present a spark of concern
for artistic innovation in a runaway industry.
Even Jesus walked as a reject among His own nation,
refusing to meet the public criteria of how they wanted
their anticipated Messiah to think, behave and redeem.

Do not dismiss these concerns as conscious naivety.
I realize that creativity and intelligent quests
will cut your ratings and shrink your audience,
for deep within the human mind dwells an ego
which does not want to hear the voice of Truth.
And if I am mistaken, then someone tell me
why do we feel comfortable sailing on midnight waves
isolated from the beams of the lighthouse?

Have you seen them for yourself?
Have you bathed in them for yourself?

No wonder things remain as they are,
but the Answer is the same:
yesterday, today and forever.

I have met Him for myself.

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Arisenshine365
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