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Lambd

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Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 06:56 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I wrote this in December of 1999 when I couldn't sleep because I had recently...well, you'll figure it out.

'2200'

It's ten o'clock at night.
I'm laying in my bed, trying not to think.
Trying not to call.
Trying to maintain.
My masculinity.
My manhood.
My strength.

I miss you so much.
I want to share my time.
Like we did before.
Before it all went wrong.
Before it took a turn.
A turn for the worst.

Now the damage is done.
The damage can't be repaired.
I saw it in your face.
You've given up on me.
You've given up on us.
And now it's time to sleep....
But I can't.

It's ten o'clock at night.
I'm trying not to think.
Trying not to call.
Trying to maintain.
My masculinity.
My manhood.
My strength.
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Rondall

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Posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 05:32 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Love done
stamped
addressee unknown
on male
post marked
manhood
in soul envelopes
with no windows.

Sometimes
strength
comes
in a plain
brown wrapper
marked
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY.

"Open this
to find out
what you have
won!!!"

This may be
your last chance...

Or it may be junk
male.

.........................................
Sorry man Lambd,
Your piece inspired a 'mourning' freestyle. I am well aware of that fighting that losing battle. I have left love unopened. I have lost too much sleep.
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ssmoothe

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Posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 04:19 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

And now a woman's pov:

I confused love with lust
Wounded, brokenheart
Busted up over a rock that could never be mine
I’m not talking about that shiny piece of glass
4 karat, class, jeweled, gold, platinum symbol

I’m talking about a man, real black man
Sweet, honey, butter biscuit, chocolate syrup_hersheys ain’t got nuthin on brother
Man, I like the way he,
the way he melts in my arms,
his breath, my life, his kiss, my soul
Man, he did all of this to me,
and I was somewhere wishing,
dreaming,
hoping I could
Climb that mountain,
reach the top
claim victory
but it was only lust
when I thought
it was love


ssmoothe2003
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Beautifulwaterstar

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Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2003 - 11:22 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

WOW YOW! Lambd, you have to STOP doing that! You too, Rondall and Smoothe! I'm adddddicteddd to that kind of art, you know. Dang!

Freestyle
Gotta be me mild
and tranquil sometimes
Other times
Not flowing, going
Like my zodiac in two different directions
And all at once.. Hey, it's all balance though
Hey you know
What? With you, I'm sometimes up
Sometimes down
Guess I would not know up
If I did not know down though, right?
But I refuse to sit up and night
Wondering
Waiting
Wishing..
Nah
I'm a grown woman,
Been through quite a bit
Got the memories of stressful days and nights
To prove that
Took me a while to get my groove back
Or should I say get forward into the groove of things
I don't need no rings
On my finger
Nor do I need tape on my mind
Or chains around my soul
See,
I gotta "be"
Yes.. With or without you,
I've got to be..
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ssmoothe

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Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2003 - 11:33 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yes, Beautifulwaterstar, yes, yes, yes!

Got to be!

I like it.

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