My people🌹

"We need to be better people"

My people🌹

My people
My people
Why must we be so ignorant towards one another?
My sisters
My sisters
Why do we settle for being the single mother statistic?
My brothers
My brothers
Why don't a lot of you think it's cool to be smart? To be respectful men?
To be all of the things that actually mean something in the end?

My people
My people
Why must we refuse to help each other out?
Why do we refuse to have helping hands? Instead we have begging hands.
Why do we always have running mouths? Yet we refuse to have a genuine ear to spare?
My people
My people
We need to get it together.
We really do.

My sisters
My sisters
Why must we be so hostile towards one another?
Why can't we stand to be nice to one another?
Why can't we bond with one another?
Do we hate one another?
My brothers
My brothers
We need y'all protection.
And y'all need our protection.
So why can't we fight for a stronger connection?

My people
My people
It's so disgusting to watch the way we treat each-other.
We don't do anything but break each other down.
Every time we're building ourselves up, here comes our own trying to bring us back down.
It's sad seeing some one of us hang around, not willing to try and do something productive.
I know it's hard to live.
But there are a lot of people who would rather stand around, trying to commit crime. Not realizing they're wasting all of their time.
Not caring if their decisions help them see another day.
Not willing to try and make a way for themselves.
They would be just fine with destroying themselves.

My people
My people
This world will never be a better place for you or me.
Unless we are the change we wish to see.
My people
My people
We must be the ones to set ourselves free.

My brothers
My brothers
Why do you think it's funny to disrespect your women?
Why don't you feel like a clown, knocking a woman's high self esteem down to the ground?
You want her to pick you up.
Lift you up & keep you up.
But when it's her turn, she can barely stand.
She got a lot of people to tend to.
Making sure they're taken care of.
While she's treated as a footstool.
Breaking her back.
Making sure her loved ones don't lack anything.
Yet she ends up not having a single soul to love her properly. Such a sad line.

My sisters
My sisters
Why do we fight with everything?
Don't we understand everything isn't worth our energy?
Don't we understand that some things are just not our fight?
Don't we understand we can't keep everything under our control, to make things go right?
We are not auto-repair shops.
We are made to be loved.
And we are made to love.

My people
My people
We should treat each other as equals.
No one has life harder than the other.
We all go through pain.
That's just life. You know?
My people, we need to be better people.
Because if we don't, who will?
Who will be better to us, if we can't even be better to ourselves?
Think about it!

Written by: Jakiya Sutton(Writer Of Soul)
7/25/2022