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    I LOVE YOU MAMMA

    Hearing you humm a Spiritual while
    Preparing breakfast on a Sunday morning
    I've got 2 believe that's when my
    Love of God started forming
    Pop moaning about so many bills
    Telling hin you'll work more overtime
    Simultaneously curing my stomach ills
    Once, there was a case of mistaken identity
    The cops came for me
    I remember you blocing them at the door
    With just your body

    I LOVE YOU MAMMA
    Yes I do
    Wouldn't have become the man I am
    WITHOUT YOU

    You took a trip across the water
    Without a winter coat
    Landed in the middle of a Philly winter
    Alone, tired and broke
    Scrubbed floors 4 rich people
    Until blisters formed on your hands
    Saved for 3 years so you could
    Send for your clan
    I didn't know who you were
    So I hid behind my brother
    Daddy said boy that's your mother
    You left Barbados when I was 6 months old
    First question I asked was
    Why are your hands so cold

    I LOVE YOU MOMMA
    Yes I do
    Wouldn't have become
    The man I am
    WITHOUT YOU

    I remember you walked around the corner
    With a machete when Horn assaulted my brother
    Had Horn and his boys all diving 4 cover
    You walked like a Queen
    When your eye was a swollen wreck
    I started cussin out Daddy
    You slapped me and shouted
    BOY HAVE RESPECT!
    Now daddy had a stroke
    Can't speak
    His body weak
    I see you washing his body
    Making sure he does a potty
    And help him 2 his feet
    Remember when I asked
    Mom, how can you love this hater
    You said,
    I MARRIED YOUR FATHER
    BUT MY VOWS WERE 2 THE CREATOR
    Thru sickness and health
    Momma,
    There is no amount of wealth
    That could describe you..you are PRICELESS

    I LOVE YOU MAMMA
    Yes I do
    I wouldn't have become the man I am
    WITHOUT YOU

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    • 1 January 2011
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