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This is the introduction of how life appeared to me as I began to write. The story behind how I found my pen is as tragic as it is amazing. I was a very troubled adolescent; full of fear; caught in the whirlwind of rebellion; a slave to drugs; a prominent gang member; and prone for prison. During an incarceration the powers to be decided it would be benificial for me to complete a drug rehibilitation while locked up. The treatment councelor gave me these packets that had questions I had to answer about myself. I brought these packets back to my cell and would lay half off my bed to catch the light through the window in the door. Now I had never looked at nor thought of myself in those ways, actually it was very difficult at first. Yet, what I soon discoved was that my entire life I had been completely shut off from showing any emotion and I had absolutely no clue who I was. Strangely, from this individual who only saw the world in black and white, emotions began to flood into me as if a damn had been broken, it overwhelmed me, and my black and white universe filled in with shades of grey and finally color. After that I could not stop writing to save my life and all these burried fears and emotions found their way into the countless notebooks I have filled since. For instance, the struggle to make my stand as a man as far from my father as humanly possible. I was released from prison and wis I could say that I was set on a new path but that was not the case. However, from that moment forth, I always had a note book with me and eventually broke through the delusion that I was happy with the life I was leading. I even made the decision to commit suicide and as I walked to releave myself of this earthly shell, the memory stint in prison came back to me, and that feeling of peace hinted, I could almost taste it. I didn't commit suicide that day, obviously, and I cleaned up for good. It has almost been ten years since that day. Truly, writing has saved my life and through it I have come to discover who I am and who I want to be.
lyrics
Verse 1
Welcome to the Renaissance
life is commin back /
muscles grab for bones
like mics to a track /
skin raps the tissue
it's an issue in fact /
counted down and out
but it'll never be that /
laid dead in a path
was Job in God's wrath /
thought he was his sheild,
his rod and his staff /
but the enemy was clever
he was sharp, he was fast /
savy with the words
couldn't hold to his ass /
rose dreams to the ground
like a nuclear attack /
and from the embers of night
arose a beast out the ash /
veins stratched like cables
that were filled with a charge /
and they began to pulsate
to jump start his heart /
a billion impulses
shot in every direction/
an electric infection
spread nerves candecent/
and a brilliant light began to shine
inside of the being /
as a poet emerged
with the drive to sing...
Chorus
Welcome to the Renaissance
A new day begins
a man once torn
now finds will to live
Welcome to the Renaissance
Something had to give
Broken to a point
& that point became his lead
Verse 2
When his pen hit the page
a fire ignited /
once an empty vessal
now full and inspired /
breath poured into his lungs
as he began to breathe /
power surged his essence
and eyes opened to see /
a once bleak scene,
was only black and white /
color seeped in
and became firm with a might /
forever changing his sight
as he locked in to write /
the story, the quest
the tale of an animant boy /
a glory, a mess
a scale that ended in joy /
but a fight, a war
a score that could never be settled /
he nestled in with the demon and wrestled the truth that fettered Jeopodo /
how to make a real boy
out a Moynihan /
how to be the kind of man
his father'd never been /
and how to find the person
that he was meant to be /
but the truth in the end
was something beyond belief...
credits
from
MusicaDiction,
track released December 31, 2010
Thank you to everyone who is and has been a part of my life because you have helped me to become the person I am.
Mamma Moynihan
Liam
Roman
Mark Hoy
Rice
Roberto (Poetry Teacher)
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