Straight from The Chest Poem by Little Eagle McGowan

Straight from The Chest

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Ain't no tellin' all the reasons
Why the truth that isn't pleasin'
To folk who miss the seasons
Drowned in fear and in doubt
Go blamin' misery on religion
'stead of sad lack of decision
Changin' their bad situation
What I call perfect coppin' out

Chorus:
So you can say it is the right who're doin' the killin'
The right… can say the same with all that's left
No, I don't see nobody's heart mutually willin'
To suffer for somebody else or for the rest…
When it's each man for himself sowin' and tillin'
Don't shove the dyin' of a crop on someone else
Your life is yours to empty out or do the fillin'
When you give your life…
Straight from the chest.

If there's lovin' there's forgivin'
A lot of dyin' for the livin'
go callin' yourself christian…
No time for the weak 'n' poor
And if freedom is believin'
And not doin' what needs doin'
It's you that you're deceivin'
Shuttin' life outside your door.

Straight from The Chest
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: life and death
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7 September 2015
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