Written By George Grullon Images By George Grullon
I told you so.
I’m going to stop using the phrase, I wish.
Because I’ve never gotten my money back on that investment.
Let’s just try?
Just this one time!
Look at how the sunshine illuminates on both of us my earth.
So many emotions rotating at the same speed.
I play this purple cassette because I can’t see myself at this age.
It is what it is.
Yet, these seconds do.
We do!
Our last initials have proven that as well.
Damm a soul came a long way from a 5x5.
Let’s all breathe in & exhale, grab your ankle not your foot because you have a lifetime to be lemon pepper stepping.
Oh word! I’m the cool dad.
That’s Crazy!
I’m a father to someone that is gonna be bigger than just the journey.
I’m not gonna lie.
Someone told me what they folk passed on to them.
That “this doesn’t come with a manual”
That’s beyond factual, but they’re still two versions to that text.
We walking on the straights and hitting the curves.
Everyone clap it up because he said it builds my character.
Teamwork can take you across the globe.
But for your soul it can go but so far.
Scars that never heal are common among us, but I’ve excepted it. I tried...yet it’s over.
A little butterfly said “why not see the good”
I get it.
But I still don’t get no phone reception from the 08901 zip code.
I saw tears, because FaceTime can hit you even when you’re on the boulevard four hours from destinations of El Barrio.
Since then business as usual, my friends.
Pick your feet up, you’re doing great.
So how do you feel?
How was your day?
Why can’t I remember?
What i do on this field, will be embedded not only into me but to my family.
To our communities, the Latino in our blood yell for hope.
But I never heard that on railroad Avenue.
We witness wars on screens, but we’ve been waring with our own blood for decades.
So which one should I choose?
Yet on 05/01 all of that went off the rooftop like shep did in juice.
Get your things together we got somewhere to be, just you and me.
I told you if you just tried that smile would erase everything that I just said.
Take that one to the head!
