pinerow
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Mon May-16-05 02:06 PM
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I am trying to find my voice |
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I Am Trying To Find My Voice Ramon Piñero 4/16/2004
I am trying to find my voice; but all this noise drowns my words my voice my lifeline.
I am trying to find the anger of my youth the fire that burned inside me when my friends and neighbors lost their sons in a war in a faraway land for an unknown cause.
I am looking for the outrage of my youth; the outrage that brought the multitudes into the streets and changed the course of a generation.
I am looking for my voice at a time when it is best to shut up; when it is best to look the other way; when it is best to drown in TV unreality shows when it is best to argue about Paula Abdul and who got “fired”.
I am trying to to find that piece of me that became enraged when “poverty pimps” took the money and the children still went without; without hope without dreams without light without souls.
I am looking for the fire that was my generation. the generation of free speech no war and yes the generation of weed.
I am looking at the perversion that we have become.
I am looking at our Hummers our poseesions that seem to define what we have become Instead of being who we are.
I am looking for my voice lost among all the tears and cries of hunger amid howls of pain that we allow be done in our names.
I am looking for that distant song that belongs to me; those far-off giggles of our children playing tag and hide-n-go seek that sleepy little voice that say’s “I love you Daddy Won’t you sing me a song”
I am trying to find my voice
I am trying to find my soul.
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Steel City Slim
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Mon May-16-05 03:05 PM
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1. I Know Exactly What You Mean |
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Mon May-16-05 04:10 PM
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I like how you sort of played your words to better set up your next verse. It was very profound
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Mon May-16-05 04:18 PM
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3. spelling error...should be 'possesions' not 'poseesions'... |
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although I kinda like the sound of it...lol
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Fri May-20-05 11:08 PM
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4. yes. finding voice is sometimes an on-going project... you bring |
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many of the obstacles out so clearly.
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Sat May-21-05 11:16 AM
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i wish to find that outrage too I wish I could see it in my children and grand childen
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