Hidden Beauty

This is a poem I wrote to try to get people to understand essentialness and beauty in struggle.

 

Hidden Beauty

 

No man should struggle,

No man should have to fight,

No man should have to jeopordize his life,

We all want to live but we all must die,

We all think it's greener on thee other side,

Instead of running with it; we run against time,

So of course time isn't on our side,

We would appreciate sight if we all were blind,

Metaphorically we are, we don't see what's in front our eyez,

We don't understand how lucky we truly are,

Everything we have so close could be so far,

Everything that loves us could very well hate us,

There's beauty in the struggle,

How would we know how to win if we never lost,

How would we learn if lessonz are never taught,

Not school lessonz but life lessonz,

The ones you gotta go through to figure it out,

The hard timez, the rain,the thunder from black cloudz,

The struggle is like a diamond in a rough,

You only see it's beauty when you look real close, polish it up

Truth be told it's too hard to see for most,

Only the select chosen understand the power of struggle,

Who is Dr. King without struggle?,

Would freedom mean a thing if it wasn't for slaves?,

What's Black Power if they didn't discriminate against our race,

If we didn't fall down there'd be no meaning to standing tall,

If we never fumbled our dribble it would mean nothing to ball,

If you don't struggle how will you know when you have made it,

What? Seriously?,

From television screenz, rich directorz depicting what they've never seen,

Okay that makes sense,

Those who never struggled will never see the beauty,

Will never understand why I love to struggle,

You find out who you really are in the struggle,

What you can and can not do,

And that's the beauty of it,

From what else on earth can you learn who you are,

Can you apprecaite a full stomach if you never starved,

Could we ever come together if we were never apart,

Life is a struggle and there's beauty in the struggle,

So that makes life beautiful but rooted from struggle,

Now do you see the Hidden Beauty?

 

 

 

 

 

-dreshawn