Kumasi

Kumasi said, "part of the mechanics of oppressing people is to pervert them to the extent that they become the instruments of their own oppression." He is saying that oppression is at it's ultimiate when the oppressed oppress themselves. I think he has realized something very important. The instruments to stop gang violence is in the individual, just as it is the intstument to promote it. I do believe that these programs that would have had a major effect. A positive one. If you lend a hand out to help these lost souls they will come to realize that what they have thought right is not. And that they should think otherwise. Think of a different life besides that of a gang member's. Programs like these offer opportunity. Unity. Especially with the new days of technology, gang violence can be stopped. I don't only mean it can be stopped by programs alone, but I am saying that these programs, if continued, would display a decrease in gang membership.

You're Beautiful

Like words in a classroom
She's heavily noted
Defined by her beauty
She's forever quoted

She's a message in a bottle
Floating in my mind's ocean
She's the embodiment of why
My ultimate love potion.

I'm falling effortless
Thoughts of her
Touched opon more than less

To be continued...
-MrLeclair

To: Katie

My Summer is longer than yours. :P



<333

-Alex

Butterfly Nebula

The Last GoodNight

I remember what you wore the first time we met
I remember how you smelled on the first day we spent
I remember how you smiled for no reason at all and how it knocked down the bricks that had built up my walls.
You were everything I never knew I wanted
See, I finally got it and I stopped looking for it
Love, we explored it together for the first and last time
Nowadays I cant even call my heart mine
Its yours. You seeped into each of my pores
You invaded my essence, soft sweet caresses
Looked past my bullshit to see my intentions
No fronts, no lines, no lies, no time
Just us, eternity
Nowhere else to go to
I fell in love with you and then I had to get to know you
Those beginning stages of stories and places
Of people and lessons beyond first impressions
Our first kiss was natural
I didnt think about it, it happened before I realized the place was crowded
And still I didnt doubt it, it felt so right
One moment can change your whole life
I went home we talked on the phone til we both fell asleep
Just knowing you were there is what allowed me the peace
See, when your not around its hard for me to get through
I know that you're safe because Im there to protect you
You saved me from me
I know that's hard for you to see
But you did, you allowed me to live
So I mapped out your body from the curve of your hips
To the nape of your neck and the shape of your breasts
And we had sex...I mean we made love...I mean we had sex, made love, and sometimes we strait fucked
And either way afterwards I would stay there
Inside of you panting as we laid there.
You moved in, it was where your time was spent,
So we saved some money and went half on the rent.
Then you met mom, now you two are like Siamese
Secretly I think she likes you a little more than me
But that's cool, I like you more than me too
If I died I would ask God to let me live inside of you
See Im a private guy
Most people need a private eye to get the picture
And that's why I picked her
But why she picked me
Will forever be a mystery
That's our connection
I call you perfection
We dont have as much to say as we used to
But I can read her mind
Its just something Im used to
Try six years
After the butterflies have cocooned
And the cows have jumped over the moon
Try that.
Are you still as in love
Not in the same way
But I can feel it growing deeper each and every day
That's why I pray for her before I think to pray for me
Her happiness in this, it means everything to me
Shes everything to me
My favorite sound is hearing her keys unlocking the door
Her feet on the floor or the crank of the planks
Cause I cant fall asleep til Ive seen her face
And Im sure shes safe
Its trust and its faith
And its lust and commitment
Because a marriage license aint shit if you dont stick with it
You might as well rip it up
You might as well wait a while
Shit, Im sure Im sure and Im still gonna wait a while
I wait until you're asleep
Then I whisper in your ear
I tell you everything you never knew youd wanna hear
Your beautiful, the best person that Ive ever known
There's no way I could do justice in one poem
There's no way I could do justice in one life
Ill have to come back so I can worship you twice
Ill have to come back so I can be your wife
So I can have your child to recreate your smile
I wanna clone you cause you're that selfless
But Im too selfish to feel that helpless
I need you
Loves so hard to describe
You're the first girl Ive let inside
And although others have tried
They could survive the Geminis five sides
The laughs and the cries and the falls and the rise
I wanna grow old together in a villa up in Italy
Literally
A balcony vineyard view
I wanna see our kids kids have kids
And I wanna spoil them as much as I do you
Cause you're my best friend
I swear to God you're the pinnacle
Before we met I was half an individual
Now Im on the path of divine design
How do you love love?
One day at a time.

Broughton's Observations:

This is It

and I am It

and You are It

and so is That

and He is It

And She is It

and It is It

and That is That.

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Guthrie (1938) related a story about a group of students who decided to play a joke on a class member - a girl who was very plain and unattractive. The male students in the class took it in turns to ask the girl out and treated her as if she were attractive and interesting. Guthrie observed that the students who were fith and sixth on the list were actually interested in taking the girl out, because by that time, she had changed considerably. The extra interest that she was receiving had raised her self-confidence and now she was interesting to talk to and took pains to make herself look attractive.

I found this while I was reading, pretty interesting...