Halo Braids

 
They say the physical is just a manifestation of the spiritual

So when I get the visual of each and every individual

Braid around your head that’s divisible

I see why It’s like an angel how I picture you
 
It kinda reminds me of a basket…but what does it contain

I wonder what’s maintained in that brain

I can only imagine the pain 

of surviving alone in a world that’s insane
 
See, ever since I told God “That Woman You Gave me” 

I’ve been hiding from responsibility and being lazy

I can’t be a man until I go to the One that made me

So I left you to male role models like Lil Wayne and Jay Z

Abandoning your child, saying that’s not my baby

Calling you a ho when I never taught you the A, B

C’s of life. So you see life hazy

I never valued you as a lady
 
I’m sorry for making you lead

I’m sorry for the curse that’s still making you bleed

I’m sorry I didn’t protect you from the serpent and that tree

I’m sorry that we had to sew together fig leaves

I didn’t respect you when you had a wig or a weave

But you were still beautiful, I was just too ignorant to see

The pressure of society, Maybe it’s Mabaline 

Brazilian butt lifts, and plastic surgery
 
See, You were designed to be my reflection

And I manipulated that to satisfy an erection

I apologize to the religious section

But it’s 12 year old girls that’s out here sexting

With no shot gun fathers to carry a smith and Wesson

Not taking you to be a wife, but taking you to best western

Hittin’ it for one night and never calling back or texting

Not leading you to Christ, so how can you get a blessing
 
Fellas, This is not simpin'

I’m just a man that see’s with clear vision

To confront the things society won’t mention

And the hurt that’s going on deep down inside the women

Feminism, nothing more than anger from men slippin'

Because if there no dollars, there would be no stripping

And if there were more fathers, they wives wouldn’t be missing

And if we was more harder, they would know their position
 
I love you in your natural state

Took you to McDonald's when I should have got you a steak

Took you on a date, went dutch, and asked you to pay

Let the romance die, knowing I got you that way

I got a new walk now, look what I got you today [hands flowers]

I Bought you some fresh flower, and I got you a vase

Do whatever takes, just to see that smile on ya face

Help you out with dinner, won’t you pass the spatula, babe
 
I love your hair follicles 

God created you perfect. Down to every molecule

I love every detail. Your flaws, I mean, all of you

And I promise to be your refuge from everything that bothers you

When things get tough and this world tries to swallow you. 

To the kids, I vow to be a good role model too

So when they see me, they’ll say dad we wanna follow you

And when I make a promise, from now on I will follow through.
 
Woman, you don’t find me, I find you

And I know you’ve got a past, but you put that behind you

So I will never ever use it to bind you

Not to mention, mine too

But I found Christ and now my Mind grew

Born again to new life and picked up my Bible

Ephesians 5:25, I need a rib to connect to my spinal

And when I see those halo braid connect in a spiral

It makes me get down on 1 knee, asking will meet me at the altar and say “I do”
 
~Gregory Brown