Do you hear the children crying?
I can hear them every day,
Crying, sighing, dying, flying
Somewhere safe where they can play.
Somewhere safe from all the dangers,
Somewhere safe from Crack and AIDS,
Safe from lust and lurking strangers,
Safe from war and bombing raids.
Somewhere safe from malnutrition,
Safe from daddy's damning voice,
Safe from mommy's cool ambition,
Safe from deadly goddess, Choice.
Do you hear the children crying?
I can hear them every day,
Crying, sighing, dying, flying
Somewhere safe where they can play.
Do you see the children meeting?
I can see them in the sky,
Meeting, seating, eating, greeting
Jesus with the answer why.
Why the milk no longer nourished,
Why the water made them sick,
Why the crops no longer flourished,
Why the belly got so thick.
Why they never knew the reason
Friends had vanished out of sight,
Why some suffered for a season,
Others never saw the light.
Do you see the children meeting?
I can see them in the sky,
Meeting, seating, eating, greeting
Jesus with the answer why.
Do you hear the children singing?
I can hear them high above,
Singing, springing, ringing, bringing
Glory to the God of love.
Glory for the gift of living,
Glory for the end of pain,
Glory for the gift of giving,
Glory for eternal gain.
Glory from the ones forsaken,
Glory from the lost and lone,
Glory when the infants waken,
Orphans on the Father's throne
Do you hear the children singing?
I can hear them high above,
Singing, springing, ringing, bringing
Glory to the God of love.
Do you see the children coming?
I can see them on the clouds,
Coming, strumming, drumming, humming
Songs with heaven's happy crowds.
Songs with lots of happy clapping,
Songs that set the heart on fire,
Songs that make your foot start tapping,
Songs that make a merry choir.
Songs so loud the mountains tremble,
Songs so pure the canyons ring,
When the children all assemble
Millions, millions, round the King.
Do you see the children coming?
I can see them on the clouds,
Coming, strumming, drumming, humming
Songs with heaven's happy crowds.
Do you see the children waiting?
I can see them all aglow
Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting,
Who of us will rise and go?
Will we turn and fly to meet them
In the light of candle two?
I intend to rise and greet them.
Come and go with me, would you?
South Central 2005
I sat on my bed watching Tottie put on his new clean looking shoes.
"Tottie." I said, he sighed and gave me an annoyed look.
"Don't call me that anymore, okay Arnani ?" I nodded growing sad and frowned looking down at my hands, after Tottie had tried to kill Big G he's been put on and provided with cash, I remember the night he Big G showed up at our house, mother got all excited and invited him in, she was all over him that night.
"I haven't met anybody, ever who had those guts to stand up to me like that, just to provide for his family, a grown man wouldn't even do it, he'd coward to me, but you lil man, you got heart." He said sipping out of the glass of Hennessey momma poured for him.
In 2006 Momma and Big G got married. We moved into Big G's big house and became a "family" Tottie said momma was just a hoe with a wedding ring. I didn't understand it then, but I do now. I didn't like that big house with Big G with all the security who would follow me to school and all bad men with the guns, the ones who made women scream.
One day I sat outside of Big G office because mommy was out of town and Tottie was at school, I swung my feet back and forth waiting for him to come out his office, I heard a man inside screaming for his life, after, I had gunshots and the man's body was dragged out, I looked at his face for a moment and saw how his face was bruised and busted up.
"Lil bit." A deep voice said from beside me, I looked coming face to face with Big G he gave me a smile showing his gold tooth on his bottom row of teeth and I looked away looking back at the body being dragged away, he stood up and got in front of me blocking my view.
"That's Tyquan's daddy, why'd you kill him?" I said realizing I knew him from somewhere.
"He was a bad man Arnani." He said in bored voice then lit a black and mild, the smoke burned at my nose and I scrunched up my face.
"But you're a bad man Mr. G" I said looking up at him, he chuckled letting the cloud of smoke come out his mouth. I took in his appearance, he wore an expensive watch, he had a ring on his pinky finger that had a G on it along with his wedding band, he had on a suit shirt and dress pants along with nice dress shoes.
"Well, Nani you're right, I might be a bad man, but, at the end of the day, I'm an unstoppable bad man that no one can touch or get to, there's no hero in this story Nan, just the bad guys, this is South Central not Hollywood, and as long as you and I both live there will never be a good guy or a super hero." He said looking out the window I sat there looking at him.
"There will be a good guy, he'll come and stop the screams." I said sadly he turned and looked at me confused.
"What screams ?" He asked me I looked at him and tilted my head to the side a little bit then said,
"The women and men who scream, one day the hero will hear our cry." I said and he smiled and chuckled relighting his black and mild he looked back out the window and said to himself
"Hear our cry."
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Hear Our Cry
General FictionTRIGGER WARNING ; contains, s*xual abuse, dr*g abuse, physical and mental ab*se. I sobbed, hearing, the guns sirens women screams helicopters the three men running the dogs And I heard the cries I begged. Someone, Hear Our...
