Elder Lessons

Look and listen, young man
Pay attention, young lady
Life will pass you by faster
Than a cop can swing a nightstick
If you let it
Give yourself an hour everyday
To see sunlight
To peer at stars
To breathe your own scent
So you don't lose you
To the world around you
Mankind needs to be more than
Kind of a man
So, son, get to your dreams
As quickly as God can help you
Nobody promised to make it easy
Even an easy girl can have some
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaard
Consequences for you
Daughter, don't let some fool
Misrepresent
What he desires
And take you for piecemeal
You're worth more than that, baby
Choose where you bury your treasures
And wisely pick he who gets to
UNEARTH them
You're built for life, child
Don't lose yourself in all this
Death music
Morbid television
Depressing news
Find hope
It still springs eternal
I don't care what you hear
The Bush program say
You were molten from the finest gold
On the planet Earth
African gold
It doesn't matter what your skin tone is
Child, we all came from the same fabric
God just dyed us to match our separate homes
Let me stop
I know your attention span
Is no span at all
It's just a point.