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Crips & Bloods


 

Crips and Bloods, robbers and killers.

Crips and Bloods, murders and stealers.

Crips and Bloods, those psychotic devices locked to entangle metal

and those ridges perfectly fit in hand with your suicidal addictions.

Crips and Bloods, the cocaine Smith-back bodily sniffers

and those popping pills non-subscriptions’.

Crips and Bloods, incarcerated to extinguished people of their decisions;

yet fathomed to persuade the crusaders of their sicken blue color sins.

Crips and Bloods, you call the devil's seven deadly sin kin,

those hippies and rolling stoners, the seven princes of hell within.

 

 

Crips and Bloods, y'all Cali boys straight from Canton and

y'all wanna be boys trying to be men who can't act for nothing.

You humpty low rider hydraulic drivers

and your speedy drag racing fucking car tires slicers.

Cop killers and neck slashing throat juggler endorsers.

You thirsty inevitable jewelers, with your criminal minds

of prospection of all of your impression.

Yet you must have thought that you found the loopholes in our United State justice,

reinventing new instruction for the thugs’ manual book of confessions

 

 

Crips and Bloods, you leave daughters and

sons fatherless with mother tapping to the needle;

steeping in fluids as those creepy and crawlers

climb up into their feathered torn battered mattresses.

Posing those arthritis incapable motor-skills that he often signs with.

With those anti-social coffins that you paint the streets with,

and those drive-by galleries that you suddenly miss.

Slinging drugs as they enforce music in a raised fist,

they chung 40s as they lyrically reminisce.

 

 

Crips and Bloods, a slang word they use so often "yated."

Crossword puzzles with the missed spelled words,

with tears under their eyes representing lost ones;

yet their suppose to be tuff and not cry.

Jungles of grave stones with undated signs or

broken homes with shattered tombstones representing "rage."

Scriptures of paragraphs written on their inner backside

or their inter introspection tights that don't divided.

 

Those Crips and Bloods, their red and blue.

They trigger those gang signs, as they shoot at you.

In despicable me, they smoke and chew.

Raising their pieces as they look down their barrels to aim,

yet they always seem to miss.

Red and blue we hope there almost like flowers,

but their like red Porsches shaped as bullets and

blue handicap signs framed as crosses in the form of a coffin.

 

 

Crips and Bloods, you kill your brothers.

Crips and Bloods, you scare your mothers.

Crips and Bloods, you smother the screams of the raped daughters.

Crips and Bloods, you take our sons at young ages to form into your soldiers.

Crips and Bloods, is it really all worth what you talk of.

 

 

I speck in the ways that no one else will hear,

because I am silent among the boys who call themselves men.

Wrapped in Disguises that I don't recognize as clothes.

Degrading yourselves less than what you are worth.

I tug at the sheet as it enslaves my sweat,

once a Wiseman said (MLK) "I had a dream" and it wasn't this.

Not to kill my brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers;

not to recreate Kane and Able, a story or

truth left with so many questions and no one to answer.

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Mafi Grey

I went through a lot of hard life situations, but it never stopped me from trying to make something of myself. Currently, I'm following my dream to become a chef and on the side is the passion I hold deep for poetry. I hope you enjoy my art and my poems. Oh, just one more thing, please comment as much as you can. It motivates me to write, when I have an audience behind me. Also, It really shows when a person responds to my quotes or poems can make you feel that special feeling saying you really can do what you can do. I mean it's like a painter who puts his new work in the gallery for display for all to see, and then turns around to see 10 to 20 people standing around trying to figure out his inspiration, his thoughts, and what lead him there? I love when a person understands me and when their trying to dissect my thoughts. Also, when my work of art can help others cope with their monsters and to help a person become inspired. Thanks a lot. I grew up without a father, but that never stop me from becoming a man; yet I thought life would be easy but it wasn't. The pain that I grew up with was hard, but the thought that grew with inside me was even harder. Could I be a good father, could I contain the pain; could I even forget or could I be something better than what he tried to be. Before I knew it, I woke up a man with pain in his knees, with hair on his face; even with sweat, tears, and blood on his sleeves. The lost of hair, the responsibility of having faith in you and where I worked my hands far pass there capabilities. I believe that I'm a pretty fine man and that one day that I will love my children as mush as my father and mother did... Me and my friend has a group, he does music, rap, making beats, and videos. I help out there and here for the music, raps, and videos. I used to rap myself and we go way back. I join the team and he wants me to lead the poetry side and I agreed. If anyone wants to join, then email me at [email protected] and I'll see what you got. Check out my page: https://www.facebook.com/MafiThePoet

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Comments (8)

Grant-Grey Porter Hawk Guda
<p>Powerful expression. Always let poetry fill your life. Keep expressing your heart. &nbsp;</p>
Mafi Grey
<p>Yes they are destroy other people's dreams. What the people before us do will judge the rest that follow and I'm tired of being looked at like I'm not intelligent. I have worked for everything I have and I'm humble for what those give to me free. I have three jobs and I'm about to get another one and I have school full time. Before these people commit there crimes, make sure it's worth it because the hard working people like us don't get a second chance of impressions.</p>
Mafi Grey
<p>Thank you</p>
Mafi Grey
<p>Thank you&nbsp;</p>
Quiknodda17
I got you on the like button
Quiknodda17
Well gotdamn i hate them too. Rebels without a purpose.
Mafi Grey
<p>I did this piece because I wanted to touch on one of the biggest gangs in America and what they are doing to our people.&nbsp;</p>
Mafi Grey
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