Relate Series: Job [Poem]

You ain’t been broke

as a joke

like that folk

named Job...

a man who

REALLY

got it from the bottom,

take notes..

the only human being

you would think

know the game

& watch everything you gain

up in flames,

call it smoke

it’s seems

God is good

when it’s good

in the hood..

but what good

is ya life

when you’re seen as a joke

& when I say joke

I mean broke

as a joke

& is it really

materials

that cause our egos

to stroke?

the circumstances,

you ain’t never been in before,

will you

let it make you cry

or wiser? stay woke.

them words

when they’re hurled at you,

will it

make you choke

& are you standing

in the rain

when the pain

leaves you soaked?

My guy

What a lifestyle

it is,

I be stoked,

trying not to go insane

& explain

to yo folk

but always stand firm

On ya heels

& ya toes

& when God

Say it’s time

for the shine,

He'll give a double dose.