About Me

When the wind blows on a hot afternoon and you take that deep inhale and cherish it like your last breath before you let it out

Waking up and not knowing where you want to go or what you want to do

The smile that comes to your face when you see kids play and you remember when you used to do that

When being tongue-tied wasn't an obstacle

When the hardest decisions you had to make was what cereal to eat or what cartoons to watch

Love wasn't a game

Trust wasn't a option

Opinions didn't matter

Those days when going outside to play was way more important than the myspace, the facebook, and the tweeting of the little tweeties

The days didn't seem long enough because fun stole sunlight

The stars were fascinating

Relationships with parents weren't as transparent

When the streetlight came on expecting a call from my mother

Having fun on rainy days with my sisters and my brothers

When times were simple

When I didn't have to worry about bitches and pimples

When the clothes you wore didn't matter

When speaking freely didn't get you killed

When being an individual really mattered

When pants were baggy and white tee's were long

When money over bitches, and fuck the police weren't in my favorite songs

When rappers were poets and dancers were artist

When cheesy jokes were cool and we said yo mama instead of that's gay or retarded

When parents came with marriage and you in the carriage

When a family portrait is something you must have to love and cherish

When there were dreams of going to the moon or going to Paris

When life meant more than paychecks and good clothes

The days before music videos turned into pornos

When wolves weren't around to live in sheep's clothes

Those days before we idolized pimps for all their money and hoes

I'm still for the music and the bouncing of a ball

I'll sing when I feel like it and I can dance til I fall

I will talk on the phone til I lose service and it drops the call

But the old days are what I'm about

What about y'all

Me