For Real

Want to know where

A person is coming from?

Want to know how

You can be intelligent,

But stilldumb?

Just pay attention.

Not to the words

That are coming

Out of their mouth

But to the actions --

They’ll always tell

What they’re all about

Ill intentions

Masked with a smile

When their true thoughts

Are more than foul

“I’m with you!”

“I knew you could do it!”

“You’re all that…”

When in fact

The real thoughts

Are of a different caliber

So, the truth

Becomes a blur.

“You ain’t got no clue?”

“You might as well quit!”

“You can’t win,

‘Cause you’re Black!”

Fiction facing fact

The imagined versus real

But, what others think

Is no big deal

What matters most

Is your internal host

And the constants

On your mind’s reel-to-reel

That’s what is

For Real.

A Simpy Fab Poem©

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