Raphael De La Ghetto’s Poetry Corner – “Gone Too Soon”

Do you” Remember The Time”
when that young boy from Gary, Indiana
had that jheri curl?
He could get any girl,
King of Pop had every girl
From Diana Ross to Lisa Marie
He’ll take your “P.Y.T.” in the audience they would “SCREAM”
If you wanted to be his baby, it didnt matter if you were “Black or White”
A billie, a billie, a billiion dollar in those jeans
See, the pretty young things werent after his money
They just wanted one moment within the majestic legacy.

Black diamond trailblazer
Humanitarian that did the world many favors
So many playa haters, but not one naysayer
…could tell me, and if they could then
please inform me
who you know..
had better music videos/films?

The Way You Make Me Feel, Smooth Criminal, Beat It

Everybody knows, what every all-time countdown shows as the #1 video
“Thriller”

‘It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You’re paralyzed’

I’m paralyzed, the damn news said he died
“Say Say Say” it ain’t true
Grown man and I damn near cried
“Butterflies” became moths that are eating me up on the inside
I’m not even going to lie..
I didn’t find out that white Michael Jackson was the same  black Michael Jackson til 1995
That made me look at the “Man In The Mirror”
Everything got clearer when I realized even though I was dark-skinned that I don’t have to be
the inferior
The only mistake I seen in him was the deterioration of melanin
but should I blame him if it was vitilago and lupus that got the best of him

The media, the “Wanna Be Startin Something”
The “gots to be starting something”
Mass hysteria from a source of nothing
I wish he was truly INVINCIBLE
June 25 2009 came by, CNN and them want to glorify him
But shoot, ever since 1986 they’ve been horrified by him
Maybe that’s “Human Nature” in men
Why, Why, Why?

This is Bad
Real Bad
Like Kanye say Michael Jackson “BAD”
and if its true what they say
then the Freemasons must be real glad
Michael probably seen evil lurking in the dark
tried to bring it from moonlight to sunlight
didnt want the world to share with his sight
so they stopped his heart
This may or may not be true

but the result is a “JAM” in our hearts
He was like the other MJ, a slam from the start
“Never Can Say Goodbye” to such a star
always just “Another Part of Me” ,
another part of you
another part of our lives
When we drive,
we will be blast his music in our cars
Sing his songs in the shower
YouTube his videos for hours
With our body we find the power
Firm with our twinkle toes
We bend our knees slightly
Immolating him on the dance floor
we simultaneously backslide our feet
We must moonwalk
Mama-se, mama-sa, mama-ma-coo-sa
Just grooving to the beat
of life
Dancing in the face of death
The music is will cease
You can’t two-step death
Because Death..
doesn’t care about 13 Grammys, billions of fans, famous family
It grabs you…right off the billboard
right off the stage

… only to start another tune
Michael, on behalf of humankind I would like to apologize for what we have put you through
I hope you was humming, just “Ease On Down Road”
Can’t help to think
Like 50 years of life right before our eyes… “Gone Too Soon”

© 2009 David Delisca All Rights Reserved

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