THE HOOD

The hood...The hood I knew,

was Facebook before Face book. A social network of friends, family and friends of friends. Where everyone's profile was written on their outfit and everyone's friend list could be seen with them or was predestined by their geographical location.

The hood...The hood I knew,

was college before college. An atmosphere of lies, choices, morals, tests, groups, public organizations, and decisions that would affect us far beyond our present location and status. Where everyone wore masks of where they were and where they wanted to be.

The hood...The hood I knew,

was church before church. A place where what we believed in was more important than what anyone else thought about us. A place of tithing, offerings and begging. A place you could go to be with others who shared the same beliefs but different values. A place of negative and positive pre-notions. A place where most of us were everything we thought negatively of others. A place full of lost souls, sinners, achievers, and scholars.

The hood...The hood I knew,

Was a father for those of us who didn't have fathers. Full of people who taught us morals, to fight, to be a man, to live on your own, and to take care of the family by ANY means neccesarry. People who taught us to do right but would assist us in doing wrong.

Now the hood...The hood I know,

Is reality tv before reality tv. A place where the whole basis of it is that it's "REAL" when it's everything but. A place where the worst the better. A place of lies, liars, wanna be's, deception of fame misleading the young, delapidation, confusion, stagnance, and everyone seeing it's demise while EVERYONE stands aside and watch.

I miss my hood...The hood I knew.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"-Edmund Burke