Listen To Your Mind Brother
              AUTHOR    Andre Burton / CO AUTHOR    Joanne Johnson



 

                        Who am I, that society no longer wants to see,
                    who are they to lock me down institutionally,
                    judging be, trying to brake me mentally
                                      because I'm strong.

                  I have been kidnapped, away from my family,
                  friends and home.   Listen to your mind brother,
                  said a voice unknown to me.  Listen to your mind
                  for their exists a time for everything in life you see.
                  Including wrong and right, but yet, no man has the
                          right to judge another nor slam you.

                So who is really wrong?  The weak or the strong?
                Society is blind brother, she has been lying to
                the people-which is why you see so many dying.
                    In her streets and cities across the states.
                 So who is really strong, the thinker or the one who
                struggles to escape? Are you saying to me...run?
                Listen to your mind brother, only  a fool is on the run.

                     He's like that because he has not learned the
                    importance of time.  What do you mean?
                    Listen to your mind brother, listen to your mind..
                            You are time, and time is you.
                        Only a fool runs from the reality that is present
                        for the wise to see, within society.
                               What about where I exist?

                    You exist in the reality of society, but yet, you
                   have never been free.  The only freedom you have
                  ever had, was the  freedom to listen to your mind.
                 What about my other brothers and sisters?  What
                  about them-said the voice unknown to me.

                 They are today in the blind to all you are going
                through-to all the things you see.  This is so because
                they have not learned how to catch up with you or me
                in the struggle of life, whose struggle and what life?
                           Listen to your mind brother!

                Take your right hand and place it over your heart.
                This is the first lesson in gaining a start, cannot you
                feel the sound of the drum beat?  Try again, because
                the sound you hear is me, knocking at your mind,
                giving you life for as long as you do right in my time.

                Life is not a game you play today and throw out
                tomorrow, what is life?  Listen to your mind brother
                Life is an intrinsic course in the soul of men, that
                must strive to go after its destiny.  So don't look at
                where you are, Listen to your mind to learn where
                                     you are going.

                Wow, I have never thought of life like that because
                you've been blind to the reality of your nature,
                and you've been caught up in the line of society.

                                Do you think I'll ever be free?
              Listen to your mind brother, listen to your mind.
              As the sun raise each morning to shine reflecting light,
                       darkness exist close by in the night.
                  What you feel and what you think within that time
                    will be recorded deep down within your mind.
                              No one can hear - but only you
                      Just remember, life is today and death stands close by.

                Open up your eyes brother, listen to your mind
                    What you hear and see represent Insight.
                              Your ability to vision ........
                   What you strive to achieve in my time for self
                   and kind represent intelligence.......
                    for as long as you live:   Listen to your mind brother!

                     Wait a minute!   I have more questions.....
                    WHO ARE YOU !   Said the voice unknown to me.
                                Listen to your mind brother.......
                    Hold up, one other thing......Listen to your mind brother,
                             LISTEN TO YOUR MIND
                for all the answers of life you are searching for lie there!



 
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