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When God gives you lemons, put them in your drink!

When you can look trough the billboards, and see the graffiti
and see the writings the truth and the billboards just pretty
and when you can stand tall whilst being looked down on
and know that the common opinion just means that everyone’s wrong

separate your wants from your needs and your wishes from prayers too
and make sure the labels that you ware, never ware you
know that you never really need anything that you can buy
the only thing we need to live is water and that falls from the sky

When your at one with this earth by its grain and your bread
you’ll know the difference between being unborn and being dead
and when you trust your dreams and experience mystical oddity
you’ll find that there is a consciousness without the body

When you can accept with no expectations
and know that patience is virtue, and virtue’s overrated
when you can hold one more day and start over again
and fail before you began and get at it again

When you can reach for the sky with your feet on the ground
and look at the stars but not listen to them
before you put on a movie, finish reading your books
and when you’re watching the news separate hustlers from crooks

and before you accept diamonds and gold from a man
know the difference between what is taken and what is sold from a man
if i want, he buy, one do, one die,
and literally blood on my hands have i

so don’t let all that glitters be gold but some cubic zirconium
and don’t judge a book by its cover and a dude by his phone, ya
and remember that in this very land there was a time when
a man would rather die before he’d put on a chain

so when you know, that you want to be with him
and you know for sure that you want to have a seed with him,
understand that before you can give birth to life
you have to be a woman first then a mother and wife

when you know that no one can hurt you as bad as you can hurt yourself
only then are you fearless
and when your tired of the cards you where dealt
start playing chess

when you are not a manicure, but lines and blisters
when you are not every other machineraped face in pictures
when flesh and blood sisters can unite and look out for each other
instead of acting like bitches

we can laugh when we’re happy and cry when we’re sad
and eat when we’re hungry and curse when we’re mad
and sleep when we’re tired and write down our pain
swallow our pride and brush of our shame

and when your name testaments the life you where given
sister, you’ll belong with the rest of us women

-SKAKA