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Split Personalities (2006)

With promiscuous boys and girls running rabid in clubs today, is anyone else curious about what exactly happens the day after these people “hook up” and go their separate ways?  Other than the reality of lifestyle-threatening diseases, is anyone else giving thought to what else is damaged by such reckless mentalities?  I’m speaking specifically about its effect on the building block of humanity and a major element in the establishment of the modern day Church:  the family.  For all of its importance, its core is being overlooked in an era/error of instant gratification and avoidance of adult responsibility.

On Joy (off of his album Quality), Talib Kweli aptly sums up the trend that is permeating the American culture:  “…And you wonder, why we called ‘baby-daddies’ and ‘baby-mommas’? – when we grow up, we can’t act like adult mothers and fathers.”  This baby-daddy/momma drama is readily playing out on the stage of life with too many willing to act their way through these roles as inept understudies.

When such roles are not properly filled, the destruction of nuclear families is a precursor to the annihilation of humanity.  Breached and divided, the resulting damage of split nuclear families is deadlier than any atomic bomb that mankind can manufacture.  This is America’s soul we’re fighting for people, yours and mine… and within the heart of our nation, the devil’s winning far too many battles.

Split Personalities

Men that hit and quit a person phallically
Exhibit split personalities.
They sniff about worse than allergies when
spring comes around.
Those that only act noble and chivalrous
Until they’ve groaned slow from pitiful thrusts
Will only pivot and lust for the next best thing
that comes into town.

Adam splitting far from his seeds,
Is like when an atom’s jarred and split like a pea –
The family’s ripped apart as the seams
bust through and decimate.
Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Ground zero’s clean up falls on a faulted lobby…
Though he may sweep up his daunting hobby,
its impact still mushrooms and resonates.

As the dust looms to investigate the destruction,
Folks only rush to it like the levee gates after they busted.
It goes unregulated ‘cause no one’s
proactive enough to prevent it.
But what happens after is just as devastating.
The disaster’s a tad worse when it affects the babies…
When left with the ladies, their purpose gets skirted worse
than when prophylactics were invented.

Aside from defiling man’s varnished
image with such tactlessness,
These clowns tarnish families depicted
with such passiveness.
Such acid events eat away at the mother and child unit.
So as split molecules evolve
After dad’s dipped into his miss’ hips and abdominal walls…
If pop’s an anomaly nominally involved,
that brother’s child is ruined.

When dads don’t visit and kids
don’t know him from Adam –
Forget about the cataclysmic
damage of splitting atoms.
Splitting nuclear families is a tragedy of epic proportions.
The long-term effects of splitting heirs
has more devastation
Than any amount of secondhand radiation…
As such desolation detonates from
warheads of tepid distortion.

Such repercussions eventually
damage both chromosomes.
In both the male and female, the whole home is blown.
When overexposed to woes, people mutate
from these deadly outcomes.
In males – replicas are cloned.
In females – retinas are closed…
Deader on the inside than sepulchre domes –
their dead zones aren’t readily outdone.

Worse than abortion, lukewarm attitudes
towards a father’s responsibility
Creates nuked swarms of despondent energy.
This constant synergy seeps into the
genes of father-son isotopes.
Though not quite the same as his tawdry father,
Without a role model to follow,
he too will hardly bother…
Awkwardly fostered, his aftermath’s
patterned after a dad from an idol’s ghost.

This effect can ripple down to farther generations
As it rips down trust in a little girl’s fatherly veneration.
Armed with timid hatred, the damage begins to materialize.
Either she’ll corrode through sexual self-deprecation,
Or explode on every male who gets close
with hellish detonation…
As she shelters desperation by hiding behind
the guise of ethereal eyes.

Even with man’s greatest personal achievements,
Such damage is an irreversible grievance.
It takes a virtual genius to reform the missing core.
And I know one such Nuclear Physicist
Who matches the role
With tuned features that fix havoc’s toll to damaged souls…
Filling dad’s dynamic role is one
of the molds that the Lord is fitted for.

‘Father of the fatherless, defender of widows,
is God in His holy habitation.’
– Psalm 68:5 NKJV

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Bar None**

The fatherless have
A Father Who’s far above
All the rest – bar none.

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Razing Your Child
a.k.a.
Fruitless Seeds

Seeds grow way off if
Sown in deeds of chaos reaped
Once grown men take off.

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A Paternity Leave of Absence
a.k.a.
Taking Off from Work

Once maternity’s
Seen, an immature plebe takes
Paternity leave.

 ** Poet’s Prerogative:

– in the Hebrew language, “bar” as a part of one’s surname denoted “son of.” For example, Barsabbas as “bar sabbas” means “son of the Sabbath” while Barabbas as “bar abbas” means “son of the father.”