Leave Me Alone
January 14th, 2007 at 03:44pm Manchild
During week number 3 of 2007, please all me to share a few stones of remembrance written early in my writing career to inspire those of you who aspire to become great writers and published authors to pursue the profession or career of your choosing passionately. If you choose to do what you love to do, the money will follow as you excel and succeed. Each day this week, I’ll share a different poetic excerpt from THE LEADERSHIP BY EXAMPLE COLLECTION™, “Begin Within So You Won’t Have To Do Without.”
LEAVE ME ALONE
Look, didn’t I tell you the other day that my final answer is still no, no, no, a thousand times no?! Like a bad dream, disappear, go spook yourself, and until you can respect self, find someplace else to go. You’d be better off talking to that brick wall because you can’t force me to terrorize my neighborhood. Besides, don’t you feel stupid wasting precious time killing each other while fighting over turf and colors, always up to no good?
Mommy and Daddy taught me to become better, not bitter, to respect human life, and said gang banging wasn’t right. It would break Mommy’s heart if, by choice, I ever had to kill another woman’s child behind some silly fight. She works too long and too hard to worry about me every time a strange car goes speeding by. Besides, does it ever bother you to hear about all of the innocent children who die when stray bullets start to fly?
Why don’t you just leave me alone and like all snakes, find some rock to crawl under until you get some dignity and pride? Can’t you find honest work or use your time to get an education the streets will never provide? The next time you see me, act like a slow car cruising in the fast lane, move over, and let great people like me pass. Until you clean up your act, and deicde that you’re going to be somebody, get out of my face so I can hurry back to class.
Paternalism is the word for you to incorporate into you personal and professional conversations on day 14 of 2007. Until we meet again, may the peace of God be with each of you as we keep walk togethering in peace and working together for good in the neighborhood where we live and give the great people we meet on the street nothing less than our best. Struggling to love each other unconditionally on a daily basis even when we don’t feel like doing so will continue to test our faith. But do it anyway.
©Copyright 1990-2007 by Roderick O. Solomon. All Rights Reserved.
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