Author: JC Hughes

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Can’t Be Helped

Written by C Hues

May 25, 2023

Follow the light
But throw shade around
Act like you’re right
And put others down

You’re well on your way
Please carry your cross
It looks good, I’ll say
You make a great loss.

You’ve been treated bad
Oh, it’s so sad
But when you’re the same
Oh, you’re not to blame

Thanks for no truth
Oh, love the façade
Your age kills my youth
Oh, you must be god

It’s never yourself
Because I’m too light
No, it can’t be helped
Goodbye and Goodnight.

So thanks, perfection
I’m humbled myself
No self-reflection?
No, it can’t be helped.
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No Place

Written by C Hues

May 24, 2023

No place in the city, shut off from the suburbs
Way outta this world, what’s being unearthed
Diggin’ our own graves while doin’ dirt to the planet
So Florida’s underwater, I’m sure DeSantis will manage
You throwin’ parties in mansions while my people are famished
Goin’ to war with a goddamn mouse
Even if you win you still lose
And 45’s such a genius—what great options to choose
So many fall for the ruse
Subterfuge no longer from the shadows
Anacostia and Appalachia fightin’ the same battles
Elites set poor against poor and frame it in color
But it was your ancestors from Ulster that raped our Great grandmothers
So it ain’t an issue of how we look
But the healthcare we both need that the rich will say they took
As the thieves take your money and call us crooks.
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Chelonian

Written by C Hues

May 23, 2023

It’s never over for the underdog
Underhanded politics
Done over corpses
When the trumper votes, it’s the gun he endorses
Senators slitherin’ and sheddin’ their skin
If it was their sons dyin’, they’d still do it again
Swimmin’ in the swamp with their chelonian kin
Who the fuck you think this shit affects?
Think cuz you a similar shade that you won’t be next?
This just all seems like I’m jokin’?
Until you see that the system of the rich is broken
Hydra’s in the House, all that’s lost is regrowin’
And I oppose it with every ounce of who I am
Cause you can’t take my courage—it’s mine
While your leader is a liar who’s in need of a spine
By my own light I’ll share it with others to shine.
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As Well

Written by C Hues

May 22, 2023

There’s power past the pain—
Though it holds the hurt. 
Why want one to explain
Why they did me dirt?

I look and like to linger…
Tempest can’t be quelled.
Quick to point the finger—
When I’m the one as well.
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Shift

Written by C Hues

May 21, 2023

Coming conflict in the clouds
Sudden shift to spring
Starts pouring in a stratagem
Yet I’m supposed to sing?

Where will my people go
When leaving’s all that’s left?
And we were here the whole time
To become so bereft.