Another Rebirth

2008 has been a wonderful wonderful year for me. I've been blessed in many ways. . .therefore, the devil has hard at work in my life as well. Of course. As I fight with the devil, everytime I fall down he keeps me down real low and then God picks me up and I have some kind of new realization about something...it's like a rebirth every time. Today my rebirth came in this form: (may not flow as well as it does when I recite it but try to feel me)

The Pretty Gene

I'm a pretty girl
But what does that mean?
It doesn't bring substance
It doesn't stop a thing

Ignorant admiration and comparisons
Lead to tentative aggravation, false conclusions, lost imperatives

Who cares?. . .So I'm pretty
Well so is she, her, her, and that one over there too
What's the use of taking note
I'll never walk in their shoes

And they'll never walk in mine
I need to know what defines
Me

Say I lose my hair tomorrow
Say my man walks away
You think me being pretty will EVER make him stay?
Not when there's pretty walking past him everyday

There is no immunity
Life shatters dreams
Sadness all around me
As pretty as it seems

They say I'm a pretty girl
Let me invite you into my world

Tears and lost ambitions
Confidence has striked out
My faith has left a void
That the devil fills with doubt

They've told me all my life
How nice and sweet I am
But what they forgot to tell me
Is people don't give a damn

Tear you up and break you down
Make you stumble all around

How my world would easily shatter
How pretty really doesn't matter

I've been lied on
Lied to
Cheated on
And left behind
Women are just beautiful
It's all in God's design

My pretty no longer defines me
Tonight that's what I decide
I want to live life sublimely
Contributing from the inside

My man he loves me
And I'm sure my pretty is a plus
But he was sent from up above me
And that's what defines us

If pretty was all he needed
He could've settled long ago
Cause pretty is all of his exes
And even some of his hoes

I'm a pretty girl
But so is she and so is she
There are alot of pretty girls
And pretty don't mean a thing.