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Contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Brent & Davon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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I Would Just Be . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Victim
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When Will It End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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My Crazy Girlfriend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Uncle Cliff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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My Love For You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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A Letter To My Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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I Just Can’t Stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Why Ask Why . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Dreams Held Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Superman
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My Fear
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It’s The Little Things That Matter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The Inner Mystery In Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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My Boys
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Losing Someone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The Rodney King Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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A Place In This World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Poems from the Heart
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My Own Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 A Broken Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Racism
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Still Working With Me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 A Passionate Kiss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Dreams In A Glass Jar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 A Leaf Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Little Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Deep Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 King Of Hearts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Where Do We Stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Reach One To Teach One. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 How Could You Hurt The One You Love. . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Until The Next Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Dont Stray Away. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Why Do I Cry?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 How Special You Are. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 One Day At A Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Will Never Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 My Father... My Hero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 A True Love Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 When It Rains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 A Crazy Dream. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 “But What Was I Supposed To Do?”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Someone For Me. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 The One
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Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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Life
by Brent Jones
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Be A Friend Toward God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 The Dream (Part-II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 A Casualty Of Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Blood Brothers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Scar For Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Jesus Is A Friend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 The Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Trust In Him Every Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 The First Encounter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 If You Had 24 Hours To Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 A Love Thought. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 The Business Trip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 A Prayer To God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 The Ones That Got Away. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 The Tragedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Hard Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 A Friend Like You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 “When I’m Alone” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 When I Know. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Why Am I Here? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 School Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Seize The Moment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 What’s Important To You?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Silent Cries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Back In The Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 The Poem To My Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
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Poems from the Heart
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Ladi Dadi was number one as we all know and they did it again when they made The Show MC's back then were simple and precise With all their rhym es that's what made it nice Nice and fresh with the rhymes they used to say The old school stuff back in the day There were female MC's that had rhym es that were tight Like Salt N Pepa and MC Lite Then Queen Latifah with the rap she ran And UTFO with Roxanne Roxanne All these rappers always kept it real And you would like the music and how it made you feel The name belt buckles with the gold chains Fresh bally shoes never ever the same color Cause you always had others different pairs to wear Because you used to wear your brothers Kangol caps <ith the Lee Jeans, Guess was next with Calvin Klein in between Block parties after dark and the streets were cool Eve1ybody knew each other and each other we knew Those clothes were cool right and okay The old school stuff way back in the day