by Scott Walker
2016, while in Atlanta, GA
He is a sidewalk poet who was born in Douglassville, Georgia and raised in the Kingsport, Tennessee area after being adopted. “What brought you to Atlanta,” I asked. “I came here to meet my family, I was adopted and raised in Tennessee,” he said. He looked to the side and commented, “It didn’t turn out well.”
While John may have been homeless at the time, he knows how to write poetry and he can capture your attention to where you hold onto every word while waiting for the next to fall out of his mouth.
He recited every word he wrote by memory…
The Truth Must Be Spoken
I have this thought
in my head
that must be expressed
before we the people
end up dead,
the situation is this
we the human race
must give up our fight
lay down our weapons
and begin to unite
because the degradation,
of our segregation ,
impregnated by each
and every nation,
is brought on by our
affiliation with lies
and intimidation,
along with the fornication of our hatred
to which our demise
will be brought down on us
by the firing of weapons of mass destruction
and we say that
this is no longer a surprise
what we really need to do
is open our eyes and realize
that mankind is no longer
working together
to make our lives better
and what is this Idea of destruction
based on the influx of
demolition and reconstruction
of the things that we already have,?
by leaving scars on our planet
sweet Jesus we are all
going to be sad,
because the damage we have done should
be making us all mad
I know that I am;
and instead of helping each other,
we say why bother,
YOU are not my sister, my brother, my mother
or father.
and the wars that we fight,
what is the reason that the season of
religion is our basis
\for the hating of other races
and do you know what the
real disgrace is,
it's that we as humans
choose not too face this
so open your eyes
to the disguise
that is before us
don't we as human beings realize
and surmise,
that it is to late too ignore this
and as far as protecting ourselves
from the Crisi with Isis,
why don’t we lay down our weapons,
then open our hearts, for a start,
and as a token,
my weapon is ART,
so the truth MUST BE spoken,
and throu verse I am doing my part
to save the future
of humanity from annihilation
and our own insanity
AS I SAID, THE TRUTH MUST BE SPOKEN!!
God Bless us all Each and Every Nation!!"
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