Gettin' Up

Its like everybody knows! Two years, enough time for you to actually feel it, passing... But, the vibe has really reached more avenues than I anticipated. I've got Q-tips album on repeat and Rihanna is killin rehab.


How about everybody asking bout cha? Wanna know if we talk, the last time we walked, shit, last nite was hot... I guess I'm either too lazy or too smart to rap. whatever the case, my friends and family are bringing u up. I'm happy to have something to say. I guess it almost didn't happen. Thats what makes it real. Thoughts linger, how easy it would be to give up, or for our meeting to never have happened.
I feel truly blessed.

There is something about staying on your grind...

On mine, I managed to see you at one of the most unlikely of places. A male friend of mine believes you knew I worked there... I guess I'm okay with that. Really? I'm mean imagine that... But, back in my Honda, I'm trippin twice cuz you might be hurt; seriously. I enjoyed our little time hangin out. "Do you want some water?" lol Your face said everything. That's right. Cough, and I'm offering a bottle. Sneeze and I'm passing the kleenex. Gold. We really should look out for one another. How much of the world really looks out for you? My whole goal is to help make people feel better from a mechanical and chemical perspective. I pursue physical therapy happily.

So, where am I? Applications are out early.
I currently work as a technician for "the nation's foremost provider of outpatient rehabilitation..." The clinic director is a world renown PT of jaw/oral/and neck conditions. I'm one of two who runs the front office. At this stage I'm learning the business of physical therapy. One day I'd like to have my own facility, serving the needs of unreached people. Much like my last job at the Atlanta Human Performance Center, I want to provide service to all people with special consideration for those who've been overlooked by the health care system. We all could use a lil healing, sometime.

And with that - turn on some marvin gaye and let it ride... so far to go, but its not about me. I hope to make The Black Family proud. Presidential coasters to Barack Obama! May you represent and serve us well. Us, now that's what's gettin up!

-delano

Renaissance

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-dnice

red light

turbulent tranquility
emanates from core.
pulsing branches,
leaves of absence
grasping to an echo
for dearly departed
former selves and recollections.
we picket porches on:
linger longer/
laborious laughter...
giggle glances - music makes
worlds convulse round
us.

nominated in shadowy meadows
knighted by silence
captured in most high definition
evidenced through epiphany
unfolding memories of momentary history
thriving for futures uncertainty while
karma cradles our energy

send sips of spring
lost in Sahara.


healed by your kindness
offered edges of water
to kneel by
and bathe patience quenched
in word.
part harmony of eternity
voyaging life springs
and sleepy hollows
pistol whip cracks
obama.

pray we evade
despotism.
feelings grow
soaked by
cavernous thirst
for green light
as i drive home...

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qtip. the renaissance....

we here
in the midst of atlanta
the atl and the swell of
changes...

we remain abstract.

you know when its nothin but doubt around
we shout from towns
angelic sounds at the top of our lungs

believe not in me
but whats coming

hope is our drug
addicts of revolution
every day chosing
to hang hats upon heads
we're led to struggle
combat for oneLove

combat for oneLove
come back were I'm from
is that what I'm on?
check me out, then I'm gone
your chance has come
what it do when

its music.
i hope to share
beneath the sun's glare
I stare
blinded with ambition
conditions have changed
chopped and screwed

i left you
to find just how strong it was
and I want myself back
but we played for keeps
it was hardly cheap
its real costly, this time

as it gets tougher...
abstractions combat for oneLove.

"just some thoughts from the mind..." _Nas