really going on?

Is truth when you get that call from the girl you’ve been freakin’ wit, that she’s a few

months pregnant, and she’s keeping it?

I’m not sure that its truth you’ll find,

But asking the right questions is definitely the start

Is truth how you tell your girl you love her, and that’s no lie, but how is it that

Otherwise you still lie to her, especially about the little things?
Is truth how we call those the little things in life, when all the little things make up

everything, including you and me

Or how the little things that made up those big things put themselves to make

Bigger things, and that’s how we have community; how we have family

Is truth how you let your little brother go on his debut as tomato number five,

Looking for you in the audience, but you are; no where to be found?

How bout how after an hour the school administrator drove him home, crying

Out for where his big brother was, worried sick about you, because it was so unlike

you

Or how bout how you came home fucked up round 3 am, and didn’t even know how

to say you were sorry

Maybe truth is how you cried like a baby at his funeral, because you knew it was

your fault.

How it was your fault that you came home to him hanging from that beam in the ceiling,

Oh, you know, that one you always said you’d do something about?

Now I guess he beat you to it

Is truth in what comes from your TV screen. The media selling lies and half truths,

Republican media machine; always thinking green

Is truth in the late night newscast?

Explaining that the world is an evil place and how it’ s 10 o’clock,

"Do you know where your children are?"
Or how bout black leaders, explaining that there shouldn’t be so many black men in

jail;
But somehow, anyhow. We just can’t keep ourselves out

Is truth in how the civil rights movement ended;

Having come so far, and yet, with still so far still to go?

Defacto segregation got people hating,

Little babies waiting for mothers doin’ another hit

Taking another hit of that crack cocaine

The affliction taking on the world

No one’s safe, fuck up your life like it fucked up Kurt Cobain

Pass the needle

Pass the AIDS

But we say it like pass the bottle, pass me J’s

When really it’s just pass the disease, pass me haze

40 million people’s days are numbered

People humbled by an affirmative test

Positively destined to die

Future be widows cry, while their husbands and wives lie dying

Hurts my brain to think of why still 40 million are dying

Maybe truth is why I can’t stop crying

 
Is truth in the story of Abel and Cain

How some of us walk around dragging ball and chain

How is it that we spend more money on Rogaine than we do on suffering, inhumane

Is truth how all this reality will just drive you insane?

Some people write truth

Chinua Achebe; Things Fall Apart

Is truth in how they do, how things come undone

Where is it that life gets real?

Where do things get done?

Is truth how we’re a generation of zombies

I’ll call us generation Z

Buying Abercrombie and Fitch, while we have bodies burnin in ditches, way over in

Iraq

Passive activism will get us nowhere

And I don’t mean passive as in non-violent, but rather as lazy

Not like the truth be told like the Dr. Saul Williams

Cranking out like poetry, like the beautiful Black Stacey

Is truth what these corporate exploitation bids try to take from you, make of you, sell to you.

How someone like an Enron exec can pocket millions of dollars and get away with 3 to 5,

While the grand you made on the street, puts you away for 10 to 25?

Is truth something that can be bought or sold, traded as a stock?

If truth were on wall street today, who would invest? Who would the stock-holders

be?

Personally I think knowledge would be chairman with happiness and bliss on his left and right sides,

Truth inc.
Dedicated to banishing lies, Like the F.B.I. in disguise

Making lies to ply our allies over to the dark side

All while controlling the supply, so truth cannot give rise to revolution.

Convincing us to accept persecution and forgo retribution

To accept their resolution

That’s just mind pollution

How much would truth sell for in your local grocer’s freezer?

Could I walk up to the guy mopping the floor at D’agostino or Whole Foods, and ask: “What aisle can I find truth in?”

Aisle 5 he would say

And I’d walk down and buy myself a TV dinner of truth.

Now I know it says here on the box microwave for a minute thirty,

But we all know I’ll put it in for two because I like my truth hot

How do you define truth?

What words would you put down in the dictionary next to truth?

Now I know they say not to use the word you’re defining in the definition of the word

you’re trying to define,

But we all know that the definition of the truth is that which is true, that which is real

And next to the definition of real I’d put truth

Put the two words side by side

So you have Truth means Real

And Real means Truth

And we all know what that means

 
Instead of alphabetical order my dictionary would be organized by truthlyness

Between it’s bindings would be a book of infinite trueness that could be opened to any page

And bestow upon the reader the dreams and musings of truth.

Call it my truthcionary

Who would buy it?

Personally I think it’d be a bestseller, but

I don’t even know what section of a bookstore you put it in

It’d be like a new genre, super duper undeniable uber real incredible fantabulous

hyper incredulous spottieodottieolopolicious...

 
You are dazed, confused, bewildered, trapped in a world with no time, where color

collides with sound, and shadows explode.

Welcome to the truth zone

Where everything is as it seems

And you can judge a book by it’s cover

Because all things are true

Where the one language is truth

The most beautiful place in the world

What if truth were an island?

Personally I think it’d be an island in the Caribbean

Because just like I like my truth hot, I like the sun where it’s warm

And where the coldness of lies and deception can be placed down at the furthest

depths of the ocean

Just my notion

Where does truth come from?

A lot of people will tell you it’s born of knowledge

And while I’m hardly one to deny it, I hardly think that knowledge reproduces

asexually

Had to have a partner in crime, to do the time

Of writing, not the words between the lines,

But those on them, because the words between the lines are lies, but the ones written on the lines: The ones that we cannot see

Those are true

That’s why there’s got to be something more

Than knowledge,

Because even the most learned man can be lacking in truth

How can we have Harvard telling us that men are smarter than women

And I know there’s more to it than just that

Just brings us back to the media misconstruing half baked lies, and cookin' it up like apple pie

America’s pie

American pride

Just more lies for why we mistreat our women

Why we beat our women

When what we need is women

Your mother’s the closest you’ll ever get to god

Because it was with a smile wink and a nod that he gave you to her

And that’s the beginning of truth

Startin with the birth

Nothing more true

And on truth island

We’ve got a woman president

Because, you know,

Men don’t make good presidents

All the residents of that island

Voted on that ballot

Vote or die says Diddy

But we don’t need Diddy

He can stay his ass in Miami

I just said vote and they all showed up

And in a landslide victory

Of 1 million to one

Satan himself showing up to be that one

Truth won

That indelible goddess of beauty
Oh did I mention truth was a woman

Because everyone knows that the virgin knowledge mated with the king justice

And they had a little baby girl they named truth

The shining star of the family

But of course, as you may see

Before she could grow to adulthood

Her cousins Greed and Ignorance

Jealous of what she is

Kidnapped her and took her far away

That was a sad day

And by the time she returned the damage had been done

Man was born

But she did her best to help us get to where we are today, as we approach judgment day

And every day, helps one of us get a little closer to truth

Because truth is the only way

You can lie till your dying day

But on that day she will come, and show you the way

Because that’s who she is

She is truth
She is the guiding light that will bring us to eternity

Bring us learnedly and wholeheartedly,

To where we need to be

That island spoken of in the truthcionary

Tasted in the grocery

An island named truth

Run by the goddess truth

Where trees bear the fruit of truth

In an orchard ordained to be truthly

And to let the truth be known

That this fruit is home grown

And only then, only then will we see,

Only then can we see

What truth always wanted us to see

Just so that we could bask in her glory

And gaze upon her beauty

Because, the truth is

That only then will we be free.