HE

He is more than what the plain eye sees/

complex like the inner workings of computer circuitry it/

takes time to understand all that makes him who/ he is not what you call him but what he answers to/ intelligent, ambitious, courageous and beautiful/

rarely describes him and the things he does to compensate for the hand/ he's dealt with adversities and animosity thrown by adversaries/

and still you don't see the strength it takes for him to live as he/ is striving and yearning for a release of stigmas/ society likes to see failure prevail/ but only if his mind allows/ it shall be written anew that he will overcome that which limits you/

using his education and motivations he displays innovation to execute the root/ of the degradation and humiliation he faced during his youth/

composed of layers like shingled roofs/ he protects you from the harsh winds of hater and/ low blows no longer phase him cause mentally he knows/ the true power he holds is far more than physical/ their judgment doesn't define him/ because his success silences the masses/

he is an outlier in rare form/ not a product of a disadvantage/

no one taught him to be who he is/ only not to be where he lives/

like Vonage he breaks down walls separating him from the achievements others said didn't belong/ to him is uninspiring past propels him to be better than the coward of a father that left his mother when he was three/ better than the teachers that told him what he couldn't be/ and better than the expectations of his 8th ward community/

he's gone against the grain and done something insane/ he's created himself as an example of what it means to be/ the change needed on our urban communities/ and be the role model young boys don't see on tv/ his pants don't hang off his ass because he carries himself with class/ he doesn't call you out your name/ because he wasn't raised that way/

he is an educator, a mentor and the best father he can be/ as a lover and provider, he is the husband of his wife's dreams/ but out of all that he is & can be/ the one thing you fail to see/

is that he is the most lethal WMD/ because he is the African-American man/ that's living his life contrary to popular belief.
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-Mela` J