Excerpt for Open Minded Poetry From My Mind To Yours by Ethen Carrell, available in its entirety at Smashwords

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I have always wanted to write a book, I just didn't know exactly which way to look. I searched for perspectives from experiences and other books, examining evaluations and different kinds of looks. My memory is in my mind so my head I shook! Rhyming doesn't' mean anything; it's which way the rhymes make you look! What relation to the audience can I provide in a book, some kind of inspiration or hope for those who don't know where to look to find everlasting hope? My book won't just be about my life, but the lives of our entire existence! To make it really stand out is going to take a lot of commitment! From the haters you can always expect some kind of resistance! Find your direction and spiritual resurrection because what's life without some kind of dedication? I don't know who will find the time to read my lines and search for the meaning behind the words on the lines. There may be a hidden message that only the certain eye can find. I may touch a man that I never knew was close behind me. I may stop the attacker from acting who was trying to blind me. I may stop the person from looking who was attempting to find me! I try to keep the rhymes going as the words transition! I can honestly say with this song I have no particular mission. I won't force it upon anybody who doesn't want to listen! I have read a lot of books in my time and learned how to search behind the lines, searching for character and some outstanding finds! I don't know if I am right with the perception I form, but that's poetry in a nutshell, you never know what opinion your audience will form! Mixed emotions is what you can expect consider yourself warned! This is just the introduction to a whole lot of writing, my mind is mixed up so I could do a whole lot of reciting, I will try to say different things and arise upon different dreams, while maintaining my believe that no one man is better or

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Supreme over me! I try to write a little more than the average writer. I've been in a lot of fights so some may consider me a fighter. If I could get paid for anything, it would probably be for being a writer or being an amazing witness to amazing things and extraordinary dreams! I've went from on to sober in a matter of seconds as a result of seeing those high beams, I want a life that has more going on with it than just serving fiends! I don't know if my flow slumps but to me the rhymes ring. I may not have the best voice but I still like to sing! Impossible is just a word it's really nothing! Life is too short to spend every day fussing! This is all coming from my mind I'm just writing and busting! I try to keep it appropriate with limited cussing. Just because I limit my cuss words does not make me any less of a man, I still got the heart of a lion in the body of a man! I truly believe that everyone in the world likes to have some sort of plan. In the summer time wouldn't we all like to have some sort of fan? It would be absurd for me to say I have the world in my hands considering to God I am as small as an ant! We could all be crushed as easily as ants. No matter how fresh are our kicks or pants, no matter how good you could play sports or dance, if your vision is 2020 all you have to do is glance! Whether or not I stay alive, my words will always be real. You don't have to be rich to feel like a million bucks! Keep your head up and always be willing to test your luck! I can't say it enough but your money is not who you are, even if you’re a billionaire you could only go as far as God wants you too! We all in some way shape or form do what God wants us to do. Just because I said God in this song may make it odd to you, but that's just how I think and how I do what I Do! How I live my life is not up to you and will never be up

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To You! So all in all do what you want to do today and tomorrow it’s all up to YOU! I wrote this at the unemployment office but that doesn't make me a novice, I know I'M Strong but that doesn't make me the hardest, I've been around the globe but I highly doubt I've been the farthest, I've seen life dark but probably far from the darkest, I live by the day and night whether or not I choose to utilize my insightful sight, I try to make it easy for people to understand me But when I think deep probably no one will ever fully understand me, I write to make me feel like I'm doing something right with my life, I don't want to have nothing left on this earth when I lose my life, Even though that's how millions have left it when they lost their lives, When we find ourselves in the grave we will not be in need of weapons or knifes, I wonder if in the afterlife we will see days and nights, Will the violence ever seize and will we ever stop the fights? Will the people ever examine the constitution to reevaluate the wrongs and rights? My songs are my life whether they are wrong or right, For some reason I have chose to do this with my life, I'm not complaining it's just how I have chosen to live my life, No real form of expression should have time restrictions, No real leader cares if some people choose not to listen, Not every piece of treasure you think you find will truly glisten, You might find yourself in a few positions where people are tripped. You got to do your best to make the best out of the situation, Not every issue can be hidden in the basement or In your closet, I hope someone sees my writing and gives me the opportunity to make my deposit into the Mishit, I feel like my mind expands to new boundaries when I really think, I close my eyes open my mind and really think, I don't depend on links for every problem that I think, Your mind is your mind Your time Is your time Your finds are your finds, and

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Your fines are your fines, to the answers to the biggest questions we can only depend on time! What will tell? ONLY TIME!!! Written With Time in Mind, Ethen Carrell

I Wonder If Heaven

I don't know why we all got to die but we do, Your temporary fate can be up to you, but in the end its on him, the one who watched it all begin and who will witness it all end, I wish the world wasn't all about ins, I wish everyone could be cool with each other without sins, I wish everyone had the ability to really win, I wish that we all weren’t sucked in to temptation, I wonder why the creator made production feel so good, I wonder why certain people have mansions, while others live in the hood, I wonder why people spend their whole life wishing they should, I wish that when I said it was all good, it was really all good, I wish that I made everyone proud like I should, I wish that I could reach my full potential if I could, I wish that I was always satisfied with life, I wish that the Creator would show everybody his light, I wish that we could all be with him each and every night, I wish everyone would be grateful for the sun shining so bright, I wish that we could all survive without having to bite, I wish that money didn't rule the day and the night, I wish I didn't feel agony in my soul when I try to sleep at night, I wish that everyone could overcome sadness and experience delight, I wish that everyone would come together for success and reunite, I wish the world would get past boredom and excite, I wish that everyone could fly and exceed all heights, I wish the world could feel fly without taking flights, I wish I could deliver a message to everyone without having to overwrite, I wish we all knew what to say without having to recite, I wish we could all be

I Wonder If Heaven

Alive under water without drinking sprite, I wish all complaints would cease and we all would just be alright...

If this is truly my last letter, Just know If I had another chance I would do better, I wouldn't steal so much because I would know better, I wouldn't rob the people that showed me so much love, I would be cool with everyone and certainly not the one to judge, I would try to be happy everyday by exhibiting nothing but love..
I wish that everyone’s main priority wasn't to get rich, I wish life was all beauty instead of such a b**chi, I wish that everyone was able to cure the aching that caused them to itch, I wish everyone was able to solve all their problems and their glitch, I wish that everyone seen quality in life and was able to enrich, I wish that the pain in my mind was all just a game and part of a glitch, I wish that all of the world's problems we were able to fix, I hope there’s a heaven for people who contemplated suicide, I hope there’s a heaven for all my friends who were always down to ride, I hope there’s a heaven for the homeless who never had a ride, I hope there’s a heaven for the people who never found their wings and didn’t get to glide. I hope there’s a heaven for people with tats on their bodies and their eyes, I hope there’s a heaven for anyone who breathes and who has eyes, I hope that in the end the blind are able to have eyes, I hope in heaven the deaf will be able to hear everything they seen in disguise, I hope that the handicap will be able to overcome their disability and be fully alive, I hope that in heaven not one worry will ever arise, I hope that if I leave this life early, You will be by my girls side, I hope that She will feel my presence in her heart and by her side, I hope that in heaven everyone will

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find their reason why they were alive, I hope that you will show your face sooner than later, I pray that you will put your hope in everyone’s life so they can be their own navigator, I wonder if you will make me climb a ladder to get there or catch an elevator, I’m sorry for doing what I did acting like nothing really mattered. I’m sorry for my disrespect and all the times I failed to flatter. I’m sorry for when my emotions were mixed up like cake batter. I’m sorry for my bad thoughts and for the times I wanted to make my own future. I’m sorry for anytime I doubted your presence in the past, present, or future...
If this is truly my last letter, Just know If I had another chance I would do better, I wouldn't steal so much because I would know better, I wouldn't rob the people that showed me so much love, I would be cool with everyone and certainly not the one to judge, I would try to be happy everyday by exhibiting nothing but love..
This may be my last song but it’s certainly not the last time that I will ask myself why not
if my friends can do it, why can me not? If my friends got away, why did I have to get caught? If my minds constantly mixed up, why can't I ever untie the knot? I’m not worried about getting a car, because a car lot is something heavens not, I’m sorry for the days where all I wanted to do was be high. I’m sorry for the times that I wasn't such a nice guy. I’m sorry for the times that I took my anger out on innocent guys, putting reasons behind my guilt is my life in disguise. I hope that in heaven I’ll be able to be forgiven! I pray that in heaven it won’t matter about your standard of living, I pray that everyone will be cool and stop all the problems! I wonder if heaven is real.

I Wonder If Heaven

Will people still be dipped? I wonder in heaven if people will worry about their steps slipping? I wonder if alcoholics and drug heads will be welcome in heaven, I wonder if the most crooked person will be straightened in heaven. I wonder if there will be one priest or many reverends. I wonder if you will satisfy everyone with your tremendous blessings. I wonder if I will be satisfied by your wholesome blessings. I pray that one day everyone’s worries will be vanished away! I pray for your light to lead everyone’s way and show the misguided a brighter DAY!!!!!!
If this is truly my last letter, Just know If I had another chance I would do better, I wouldn't steal so much because I would know better, I wouldn't rob the people that showed me so much love, I would be cool with everyone and certainly not the one to judge, I would try to be happy everyday by exhibiting nothing but love..
I’m not worried about spelling or punctuation in my last letter; I just want you to know how I felt before times get wetter. I wonder in heaven if everyone’s spirit will be light as a feather? I wonder if everyone will talk to each other to make times better. I wonder how you will make everyone at peace. I wonder how you will get everyone’s problems to cease. I wonder how you will put the mother who lost her children’s heart at ease. I wonder if you will remove every follower of their disease. I wonder if you will make the most selfish man get on his knees. I wonder if you will bring up those times that I made people bleed. I wonder if you will bring up all those times that I was a thief. I wonder if you will bring up all those days I spent in grief. I wonder if you will bring up the days that my problems were ceased. I wonder if you will remember the days I said with you is where I want to be? I hope that in heaven with you is where I will eternally be! I wonder

I Wonder If Heaven

If everyone’s guilt will just be set free? I wonder if every prisoner will be set free.
I wonder if heaven is where YOU want every prisoner to be. I wonder if every doctor, sports athlete, average citizen, killer, and rapist will be there. I wonder if you will remember the days I called people squares. I wonder if you will remember the nights I slept with a teddy bear. I wonder if you will remember all the times I thanked you for the air. I wonder if you will remember all the times that I screamed in the air. I wonder if you will bring up all those times I inhaled toxic air. I wonder if you really have the time to solve everyone’s despair. I’m sorry for questioning you; I just want to know what theories are true! You know in my heart all I wanted to be was true to you..!!
If this is truly my last letter, Just know If I had another chance I would do better, I wouldn't steal so much because I would know better, I wouldn't rob the people that showed me so much love, I would be cool with everyone and certainly not the one to judge, I would try to be happy everyday by exhibiting nothing but love..
This is going to be the longest song I ever wrote, because getting to heaven is what I really want my time to be devoted to; I want to serve YOU even if it’s not what I’m supposed to do! I wonder if all humans and animals will share heaven next to you. I wonder in heaven if there’s always something to do? I wonder where the dinosaurs will be next to you. I wonder where the Catholics, Christians, Mormons, and Buddhists will be next to you. I wonder if you will let atheists get close to you. I wonder if you got a color, are you white, black, orange, or blue? I wonder how you made the world and if any of the millions of theories were actually true? I wonder how you will guide everyone who feels like they don't have anything to do. I wonder if you will let the poor thrive?

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In and abandon the rich? I wonder if everyone’s pain and sores you will be able to stitch. I wonder how the people came to you who were dumped in a ditch. I wonder how the people came to you who were murdered by a heartless bi**h? I wonder if heaven is where everyone wants to be deep in their heart. I wonder if you will give everyone the opportunity to get a fresh start knowing that you control their heart. I wonder if people will eat in heaven or play a little darts. I wonder if heaven will be free of all foul smells and all farts. I wonder if there will be any stores in heaven or if it will be free of all karts? I wonder if you will explain to all why you gave them their body parts. I wonder if you will let everyone meet who they want to meet and greet who they want to greet? I wonder where the people will be who had hate in their heart when they fled? I wonder where the people will be who had in their heart nothing but greed? I wonder if you will take into consideration when people plead. I wonder how you created all the animals and made them capable of feeding humans. I wonder how you taught man to eat. I wonder why you gave someone the idea to put shoes on their feet. I wonder so many things and dream so many things because of you! I hope you don't look down upon me for wanting to be close to you...
If this is truly my last letter, Just know If I had another chance I would do better, I wouldn't steal so much because I would know better, I wouldn't rob the people that showed me so much love, I would be cool with everyone and certainly not the one to judge, I would try to be happy everyday by exhibiting nothing but love..
I wonder if I said all I had to say. I wonder if I lived righteous enough to make life with you one day. I wonder if there’s a dark night in heaven or just a shiny day. I wonder if

I Wonder If Heaven

Heaven will be all serious or will there be time to play? I wonder why you don't just come today or everyday!! I wonder why you don't just make everybody obey. I wonder why you don't end the world today. I wonder why you don't want to show everyone your power. I wonder why you don't give the people who don’t believe in you a sign so they could worship you every hour! I wonder why people got bad spirits and live so sour. I wonder why you gave us all the ability to devour. I wonder why you gave me the ability to write this song. I wonder why you made me stay on the world this long.
I wonder if I will ever feel like to this world, I actually belong. I wonder if you will show yourself in my mind, or leave me alone in my mind strolling along. I wonder why people don't read your word and instead choose to play beer pong? I wonder why you allow this world to be so filthy. I wonder why you allow people to kill innocent people if we're really your people! I wonder why people’s minds tell them to peep through the peep hole;
I wonder if there will be any peep holes in heaven? I wonder if heaven will be anything like this earth. Where will people chill, relax, or go to church? Will there be any church or will you just show us all what life is really worth? Will you show us all our meaning and our real self-worth? Will you allow people to play ball and play sports?
Will everyone be serious or funny? Will there be rain in heaven or will it be forever sunny? Will there be dirt in heaven or will it be muddy? Where will people sit and will girls stop being so slutty? Will people gain intelligence or will they continue to be nutty? Will everyone have a friend and have a buddy? Will everyone live clean and never be bloody? I’m asking you these questions because the uncertainty keeps me stressing.
I will hope in you and put my mind on you because only you know my true confession...

I Wonder If Heaven

If this is truly my last letter, Just know If I had another chance I would do better, I wouldn't steal so much because I would know better, I wouldn't rob the people that showed me so much love, I would be cool with everyone and certainly not the one to judge, I would try to be happy everyday by exhibiting nothing but love..

I am not claiming in this song that I know what heaven is like or will be like. I am merely trying to portray the images I imagine about heaven and raise some of the questions that I would like to know about the after-life experience. Heaven is undoubtedly a complex issue. Thinking about heaven daily yours Truly, Ethen Carrell

How Can It Be?

How can I make someone else believe in my mind, When sometimes I don't even know what's going on in my mind? I haven’t had a certain position assigned, other than being forced to elevate my grind, or find myself caught in a cell confined. You could see all around you but to opportunities you are blind. If you have yet to start the race how could you fall behind? You may think the globes against you but that's just how it's designed,
Spaces filled like puzzles and minds combined. Don't know what else to do so I often dine. Been charged so much I can't even count all my fines, Searched so much I lost track of most of my finds, Looking for myself can lead to me forgetting about mankind,
Digging in to my brain like a surgeon I mined! What I found has no description, therefore cannot be defined. I haven’t found the dotted line; therefore I have not yet signed.
I'm up for a lot of possibilities just let me know what you got in mind! Natural disasters,

How Can It Be?

Lives that don't matter are the least too worry about who to flatter. Got bigger worries like my folks in need of a blotter, trying to hit it big but I'm still the backup batter.
I'm not too much for being the replacement, if you cool with me, you should be cool chilling in the garage or basement. Soon I plan on making a way and determining my placement! I don't know too many people across the globe, but I know that I could relate to the hustler's code, and being in that zone, that cannibal mode! Feeling like you in the bright with color like the strobes! No problems mean no plans solve them, I'm out of my normal position, catch me out of column. No certain rhyme scheme, may revisit the crime scene, You may think I'm crazy like I had to much caffeine, Or like I was deserted on an island with only one canteen, Seeing many images as if I seen figurines, I don't go to the palm reader because I'm not ready for the foreseen. Disease is everywhere you better watch where you intervene, you could be gone in an instance like you were gone on lean, like you had an encounter with someone that was a little too mean! Whether you like it or not, my stuff will be presented on the screen any screen, I'm sinking in the water like a nonstop submarine; it’s crazy how my background can prevent me from being a marine! For my burns, there is no specific sunscreen! Started doing dirt early when I was less than thirteen! I wish life was always easy like jumping on a trampoline. Life can be bitter and sweet much like a tangerine, you could get cut fast like you were hit by a wolverine, you better get your mind right in this left world, or you’re going to feel like you’re in a lost tornado with constant swirls! I spun around so much it's like I'm immune to twirls, Hit some weights, but does it matter what I curl?

How Can It Be?

I'm trying to go smart but go dumb like the man Furl, if you don't know what I mean, then you got to be hurled, jumped over, it could be already over, but search for your lucky clover! Did it illegally, now I might try to be a legal grower, Try the long grinds, but wasn't too fond of being a mower, Get out the way if you stuck on staying slower...
Do what your parents do is sometimes the only option presented to you, Even if your parents didn't have to much to give to you, No words of advice, fate itching like I had head lice, They didn't do much, how can they expect me to have such a great life,
Sometimes we need some light to direct out path in this crazy life, Thoughts go deep like they were stuck with a knife, My last verse may be the most complex, Speaking a little deeper than just normal sex, Me and my cuddies trying to invest, in something like an apartment complex, If we bringing in the scroll, maybe it'll get all our worries off our chest, If you struggling in this life, do you really think it's a test? Why does it happen to so many women that they get cancer in their breasts? When you hit with the force, it can be hard to decide if you blessed. I had cuddies tell me that their life had no meaning,
I searched deep but for my life I couldn't find an exact meaning! What you supposed to think if all around you all you see is fighting? Can you pick your chin up after you suffered a brutal beating? Do you want revenge after being disrespected in a meeting? How will you react when put in a situation when you need to do some leading? If you have a bad record, how you ever supposed to pass that background screening? You may not get what I portrayed but that doesn't degrade the meaning! I don’t want to work my ass off to spend my whole life cleaning. At times it can seem like the only option is machining! Expand your mind and take advantage the gift you’ve been given of being

How Can It Be?

Able to thoroughly examine time. Think you’re not normal if you’re not a little bit leaning, but trust me you’re not the only one trying to make sense of meaning because there have been days that I spent the entire twenty-four strictly searching for meaning! These words are just my mind racing on its never ending track of trying to find a rhyme to go with this and that, I don't know if their exactly worthy of being on a track. When all else fails, I'll be damned if I ever back because being a beast is something I never want to lack! Eat up my opponents like a midnight snack; don’t fall easily because I stay on the lookout for traps! Is there really an End to a song, a conclusion of the music? I may be late for other things, but for music I don’t ever want to be truant! Music's my favorite language and in that I want to speak fluent...Writing is what I do, so Rhyming Is What I Does. Believe In Yourself and Your Abilities

Sincerely, Ethen Carrell

REAL LIFE

It's a new year and I'm trying to come with my best, I don't know who against me but I'm not wearing a vest! I'm not too worried about your stress because it's all going to confess,
when you’re searching for the worst, try searching for the best! Not in church every Sunday but I don't doubt that I'm incredibly blessed! I got ideas for a thousand hustles but consider this my test! This is the one that’s going to give me the opportunity to get a lot of things off my chest! When you see the stars in the distance you don’t have to settle for less. I’ve been wanting to get my destiny started for a long time, now that I have the

REAL LIFE

ambition I have to really be on it, Circles in my head like I'm in the sonic, Like I'm about to vomit and clean it with the comet, Never fall off from myself that I have to promise!
Try to be honest that’s calming from the calmest, No I'm not the calmest nor am I the coolest, But I'm in the scraper looking the paper, Fresh curls on or you know I got that Taper, Depending on myself, my own dictator! React in an instance, like an alligator,
Moving quickly in the sky like I'm in a crater, Can't settle for less, I have to try to be greater, Trying to do things now, I said too many byes! Looking for the answers now, a whole lot of prayers! Catch me with only the realest never with the squares, I tell the truth with or without the dares! I don't want to leave but I just might go, ask you to come with me, just so you know! We cool where we at but do you ever want more? You ever want to leave and just go to the shores? Check out the fashions and check out the shows,
Cool with the cuddies, but like to see the coast! Go out of town and always do the most,
Yelling in the air, with my heart close, Trying to be cool because this the is the life I chose, On a random day can we just make a toast? Forever Me, Ethen Carrell

I Ask the Creator to Strengthen My Heart

Dear Heavenly Father I want to believe your word, despite the nonbelievers that criticize your word! I don’t want to be like others because I want to find your way and allow your presence to strengthen my heart each and every day. I ask God what would days be like if everyone had no doubts and always believed, I didn’t hear an answer so for that solution I am still in need. I may not open the bible day to day, but my heart keeps running because you designed me that way! If my mind is going, you are present; you gave me life, and it

I Ask the Creator to Strengthen My Heart

Is my greatest present! I can't ask for anything more, You make the plants grow and keep waters ashore, We should give thanks to you every time we have water to pour! Some people go to church and can't help but be bored, I pray for those people and for your spirit to soar, into our veins, into everything we say! We Look to you for guidance; hope you'll show us the way! I may not want to be a Sunday school teacher, but I still take your presence seriously, taking it deep like a preacher! You grant me the ability to think, I put your words on my body, and I really hope you understand my ink! You allow us to see and allow nations to blink. You have the answer to questions unknown by links! Making human beings grow and human beings shrink! I look for my heart and hope to you it syncs! I don't have the greatest understanding of different religions, but I am confident that through you they are all living! Some have a little, others have a lot, some play the fiddle, and some have a yet, you gave us our minds to think a lot, if you didn't keep us breathing, what would it matter what we bought? If you didn't give us bodies, would it matter who we fought? Thank God today, tomorrow, and as long as you live because when we die, Only God knows the answers to how we shall live!! Believe what You Shall Believe. No offense meant by this written with RESPECT, Ethen Carrell.

What Would You Do?

Will you listen to the lyrics of the songs you hear or just the beat? Will you open your mind to new without expecting to be swept off your feet? What are you willing to do to become one of the elite? What would you do to represent the name of your streets?
What would you do to reach your highest peaks? Will you float in the sky or fall to your feet? What will you do when Your Fate you unconditionally meet? What Would You Do

What Would You Do?

If you were blind and didn't have a dime? Would money matter to you if you couldn't see what you bought? What would you do if you were wrongfully convicted of a crime? Would you give up your friend so you don't have to do the time?
Would you have enough time to get out of the gutter and climb? Would you force yourself to be all you could be if you knew there was nothing to be? How will you express yourself when you can no longer rhyme?? What Would You Do if you felt like everything your doing was a waste of time? Would you be able to find some kind of reason to respectfully keep breathing? Would you pop back up if you were drenched with slime? What Would You Do if you were told everything you had owned burnt down?
What Would You Do if you were at home and felt like no one's spirit been around?
What would you do to change your frown around? Would you sit on the couch all day with your face down? Would you be willing to come out of your thoughts so your mind don't drown? Would you keep yourself boosted when everyone else is down? Will you address serious issues when everyone else is acting like a clown? What would you do if you hardly ever had a chance to see the moon? Would you act like a bear or a baboon?
Will you waste away a perfectly given afternoon? What would you do if you were side busted by a real good? What would you do if you found out from every disease you were immune? What would you do if your child was killed by an unknown platoon?
Would you give in to the pain and let it shape you? What would you do when stuck in the path of a typhoon? Would you pray then or pray soon? Would you depend on soul songs or auto Tune? What would you do if your whole world went BOOM! Would you pray to God finally and be asked to be saved from Doom? Will you listen to the lyrics of?

What Would You Do?

The songs you hear or just the beat? Will you open your mind to new without expecting to be swept off your feet? What are you willing to do to become one of the elite? What would you do to represent the name of your streets?
What would you do to reach your highest peaks? Will you float in the sky or fall to your feet? What will you do when Your Fate you unconditionally meet?
What would you do if you were dropped off on a deserted island? What Would You Do if you weren't allowed to speak and expression was banned? Would you limit yourself or would make sure you were sure to expand? What would you do if you were skydiving and failed to land? What if everything you wanted to do never go as planned?
Would you pretend to fell grand when in reality your face was in the sand? What would you do if you were dying of heat and couldn't find a fan? Would you continue to explain if so many failed to understand? Would you continue to buy if everything had to be scanned? Would you be able to find your chain if it was mixed up in the strands? Would you answer your friend’s mail even if you thought it was spam? Would you cheat the exit exam if it was your last exam before accomplishing your master plan? What would you do if you wanted to speak but lost all thoughts in your mind? Would you search for a clear path that was perfectly aligned? Would you sit in someone else's spot if there were already seats assigned? Will you ask a question when you are stuck behind? Will you be able to detect the flavor when many are combined? Will you be able to see the fall if it is a short decline? Would you be able to live in solitary confinement? How will you get your tires right if they are out of alignment? What are you willing to do for the pot of gold? Will you give up your soul for fortune behold? Will you live rich if your every

What Would You Do?

Action is controlled? What would you do if for every movement you had to console?
What would you do if your carpet was all molds? Will you sit there and let it sink in or will you try to be bold? Will every question ever be answered? Will every solution be polled? Will every thug continue to look for a chance to reload? Will everyone ever stop talking about their cardboard rolled? What would you do if you found out someone watched you every time you strolled? Will you be able to forgive or will you continue to live in scold? In a world of Diversity How Will You Become BOLD?
Will you listen to the lyrics of the songs you hear or just the beat? Will you open your mind to new without expecting to be swept off your feet? What are you willing to do to become one of the elite? What would you do to represent the name of your streets?
What would you do to reach your highest peaks? Will you float in the sky or fall to your feet? What will you do when Your Fate you unconditionally meet?
What would you do if people stopped caring about questions? Would you be able to man up and present your suggestions? Will you eat up your opponents or will they be stuck in your digestion? What will you do if you are never able to find a steady profession? Will you be the grumpy old man that everyone finds unpleasant? What would you do if your silence was taken as depression? Would you be able to voice up your true confession?
Would you sell a false hope like you were working at a concession? Would you hype yourself up if you gave the wrong impressions? What would you do if your smell couldn't be freshened? Would you learn your properties and accept all the life lessons? Would you ever give someone else your most prized possession? Would you be able to increase sales if the product was in recession?

What Would You Do?

Will you ever make your occupation your obsession? Will you ever give up on your closest friends for a quick buck? Will you ever cheat on the person you love for a quick f**k? What would you do if you were searching for your last buck?
What would you get with your last buck? What would you do if you were against the wall toughed up? Would you take the beating or would you toughen up? Will you ever respond to love with resentment? What will you do when you find yourself searching for things to do? Will you never grow up and just continue to blow with your crew? Will you ever accept criticism without defending you? Will you discover hope when struggles keep coming through? What would you do if you couldn't pay your dues? What will you do when you can't find the clues? What will you do when you need the sun to shine? Will you settle for a penny when you’re looking for a dime? Will you understand what’s around you and happening in this time? What would you do if songs were directed toward you? What would you do if the world reflected around you? What will you do if it seems like the world has neglected you? Will you understand that everyone has to do what they have to do!? Will you listen to the lyrics of the songs you hear or just the beat? Will you open your mind to new without expecting to be swept off your feet? What are you willing to do to become one of the elite? What would you do to represent the name of your streets?
What would you do to reach your highest peaks? Will you float in the sky or fall to your feet? What will you do when Your Fate you unconditionally meet?

Questions upon Questions, Wrote for The open Minded by Ethen Carrell



In The Belly of the Beast

Where do you lie in the belly of the beast, are you going to be a sinner or are you going to be a priest? Will you beg for forgiveness from west to east? Will your trouble be decreased or increased? Will you stand proud of your product earned, or will you sign away the lease? I've already been bitten by the vampire, it's time to unleash! Give it my all until I'm forever resting or eternally deceased! My brain shattered on these thoughts, let me know if you find a piece! It hasn't been published but it's been spiritually unleashed! They could try to keep us down like back weights, but our future we are left and forced to create! Self will is a must and a plus, no debate, your time at the crossroads may not have an exact date, which is why we have to make the best out of every given date! Find your strength to keep pushing or it will deflate, and when that happens it could be far too late! These are just words, they're not necessarily going to dictate anything that will make the world drop or break, but that doesn't make them anything less than far from fake! We could make loud noise like those freights that come late after we’re just getting home from cruising the interstate. If we’re getting better, why should we remember our past mistakes? Once the Conscious is present, it's time to reinstate our fates! We're going at a fast pace, can the world ever over-populate? I got my own language; it may be a hard task for you to get someone to translate! It’s good to have a lot of patience, because then damn near everyone you can tolerate! If we got all the love we need at home, why have so many people chose to go up state? All I got is all I possess in my heart, and when I breathe my last breath, I hope to God my spirit departs! I doubt that it is going to matter about where we parked our car or where we chose to buy our parts! We only get one

In The Belly of the Beast

Chance they say, who knows if we'll ever get another start? Too long for context, so straight to be farfetched, if it's a diving ball, best believe I'm going for the great catch! Spitting from the neck, Rare from the deck, Not an Exec from polytechnic, But I will Wreck, Havoc, for anyone willing to grab it,
If it's a knockout, it's your choice if you want to jab it! Hard headed people can be the hardest to talk too, but what if that hard headed dude is you? Will you try to make friends, or will you be satisfied with just you? It's been said to trust nobody but yourself,
but what position is that really going to put you? Are you okay being alone, or do you always need someone else's help? Were you spoiled as a child or hit with a belt,
either way, you may think no one can relate to how you felt, but I promise you’re not the only one with a heart about to melt! Or feeling like a crappy hand you were dealt!
Put in a situation with an unknown answer, what are the people to do when they are born with cancer? Can all your troubles be taken away by being the midnight dancer? With a twisted ankle, will you be the one who attempts to sprint faster and get past all the things that haunt you, and overcome all the Bullshit that taunts you. Going in the wrong hood at night could really cost you, you may have all the stacks in the world but guaranteed not everyone watched you, and not everyone is an open-minded, so not everyone is going to listen to you! When you think you the hardest, odds are someone could toss you!
Used to be heard, but it feels like so many lost you, When your families against you, what's a boss to do, floss hard, or forget everyone he ever knew? In the same place as before, but only chilling with a few. Long restless nights, times without lights, increased my strength to fight, It may be a bitch to you, but my babies called life, And I don't take

In The Belly of the Beast

Her for granted, so I treat her right! Even though rat poison I often Ignite, Mouth open but closed tight, Secrets inside are kept inside! You may not ever hear um even if you’re closest to my side! I'm free from bars, but I'm one mistake away from pushing karts,
Got a debt to society that cannot be paid, Used to be on top, feeling like I had it made,
until reality and my dreams got a little delayed, They might have to find me and crucify me, because bills are just lies to me! Bills may be real to society, but their A lies to me!
Can't find a reason for them to have the ability to fine me, but that's why It's hard for anyone to really find me! Meet old friends, and they often remind me, that I got the will to survive, and get high, and get by! I don't even ask why, I Just try to take their advice,
Feed it to my brain, and try to let it help me fly, Messages in disguise, no need to wonder why, Everyone has a question, everyone has a why! No matter what your habits may be you have the hidden potential to truthfully soar! I Hit the Buzzer Beater and watched the losing team walk out the door! I’m still young and feeling more creative than ever before,
Messages of life with meaning are what I actually adore! I got the scraper, no up lifting doors, I am the beast within the belly, hear me roar! Hungrier and more determined than ever before! Tasks upon my hand, feel like I got a million chores, Thoughts tangled up, feel like I got a thousand chords! See the coast in view, I might have to stop and touch the shore, I might dig a hole deep within the core, Special arms and tactics like I got out of the core, Street credibility may not get you an occupation, But it has the ability to keep you safe when all your enemies are pacing, It'll give you the ability to detect when your friends are two facing, A hidden dream is what I often find myself chasing! Wearing a mask on the track, ready to murder like Jason, if I'm in a race of 100, best believe I'm

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Shall be placing! In the top of the list, whether or not you assist, I will live on this earth, you go ahead and coexist! I'll give you my advice if that’s what you really insists! Because of my past, in the Military I couldn't enlist! But that just made me start to evaluate my gifts, And reassure myself just because I'm out, it don't mean I'm necessarily dismissed!
Just because you’re in the fog, that doesn’t mean you can't see within the midst! I may be doing something else, but you can find me in the mix! I may be standing tall, but my appearance can be a twist! If we're not really looking, can anybody be missed?
I'll give you my heart if that's what you truly insist because I know that's what's going to be remembered when I no longer exist. Give it to me straight forward and to the point,
the truth should not be able to disappoint! If that's what you’re really asking for,
Are you in favor of battle or are you antiwar? No certain number of bars for this combination, No three letters can be its abbreviation, these are my thoughts but I don't really need accreditation! Because without learning, my brain would've never hit it's activation and would not be able to hit its fastest and smartest points of acceleration!
Just because I kick it with thugs doesn't mean I have an affiliation, just because I stand out doesn't mean I need capitalization! What would our world be like without some kind of animation? These are real words, they don't have any annotation! Too much to do, too much anticipation, Too much beautiful, not enough appreciation, Too many guesses, forget the approximations, Find your heart, and your aspirations, And you'll be living in Originality, not association, Where do you really want to located at within the depths of this so called great nation? Yeah I write rhymes, but I don’t know if I can officially say


In The Belly of the Beast

Writing is my occupation, what real accomplishment ever took place with just hesitation? If you could have all your wishes come true where would be your current placement?

If reality ever seems too tough that you can’t face it, I pray that you will find your inner motivation and gain the strength to face it! Non-Artificial Ethen Carrell

Similes: Aka Comparisons Made Using the Words Like or As

Life is like a simile because it always compares, It's like a pack of wolves attacking a pack of bears, People on earth are like couples with consistent affairs, Placed on standstill as if they were in motionless chairs, I live my life at times as if no one really cares, People are like fiends dying to be billionaires. My rhymes keep coming down as if I was going downstairs. I'm like the risk taker because I choose nothing but dares, I'm like the mentally unstable, I need a few repairs, I give my presentation as if I took months to prepare, I could be like the faithful Christian that occasionally swears, Like the hidden beast that now and again scares, Like the people lost in the forest sending hidden flares, I'm like a trip to Tahoe, better hope you got some spares, I'm like an endless solution, answering thousands of questionnaires, I shine like the sun because I send continuous glares, I'm like the rapper that people don't want to compare, Because I spit my rhymes so lunatic it's as if my head wasn't there, I'm searching for life like the doctor testing and saying clear, Lost like the sailor, but find life so near. My flow so sick it's like I'm a diabetic, Run laps on this beat so they think I'm so athletic. I’m out of this world I might be so off of topic. I’m hot like a flying comet. You ill people make me want to vomit.
I'm like Tupac because I'm spiritual and poetic, Spit truth and emotion like reality given


Similes: Aka Comparisons Made Using the Words Like or As

Not sympathetic, I eat while you sleep as if I was always energetic, Engineered differently like I got unique genetics...
I see animation and colors like I just got done eating Shrouds, My heart like a mansion, it can't have enough room, I'm like a scientist because I hardly ever assume, Like a nasty breath because toxic air I consume, I flow like revelation because I got an idea of our doom, Hitting like an earthquake and spinning like a typhoon, Fresh like the flyest, suited like the groom, Flow Like a mummy, catch me in my tomb, Came out like a butterfly happy to be out the womb, Flow disrespectful as if I was not worried about to whom,
Coming up out of nowhere like the baby boom, Trying to save money as if I always took car pool, Making diverse transactions like I ate lunch with Abdul, Standing higher than the average as if I always had a stool, Got used to the punishment as if I would never follow a rule, Flow like a diamond, consider it a jewel, Go off green, it's like the environment is my fuel, Been called a dog as if on these beats I drool, Flow popping a wheelie as if I'm riding on my cool, Not rich yet, but eat like my belly has never been full, I'm like Tyson because I'm ready for a brawl, I think like an emperor but can't detect my fall, I'm like an objection because I'm ready for an appall, Like observing high, as if I was sitting on the wall, I'm like Vans, because you could always catch me off the wall..
My flow so sick it's like I'm a diabetic, Run laps on this beat they think I'm so athletic,
I'm like Tupac because I'm spiritual and poetic, Spit truth and emotion like reality given not sympathetic, I eat while you sleep as if I was always energetic and never pathetic.

Life is so crazy even the fastest man n the world sometimes can’t catch it. I have had


Similes: Aka Comparisons Made Using the Words Like or As

enough confusion, these rhymes are my daily dosage, it's like I can't stop using! Winning on the track as if I was never losing, Write easy as if it was there when I was snoozing,
Sneeze on the song as if I was always excusing, I'm like freedom because I can't get enough choosing, Tearing this beat up as if it was searching for a bruising, Flow on cruise control like I never stopped cruising, Game mixed up like I never stopped fusing, Tight like a celebration, grateful like an award, round like I was racing, found like I explored,
Take my mind into account, as if others I ignored, Run into this game as if I was getting ready for a gore, Petal to the metal as if my foot was floored, Competition Like a blowout, my opponent I outscore, Feeling so thoughtful as if my whole mind was restored, As if someone gave me a glass of perspective, and thoughts we poured,
Flow like a star with infinite potential stored, Forget sticking to the script like I stabbed it with a sword, Like an uneven trail, not sure which way I'm going to soar but I am confident that I will gain the ability to soar, My mind is like gold, it's bright with or without an award, I may be smart but don’t mistake me for a square, Smarts like mine and a spirit like mine in a man are rare, I’m as loud as the man standing on the chair when I’m normally chilling in my zone or my air, I think like Erykah Badu because I have accepted that life goes on and on, As long as I am rolling with my heart it doesn’t matter what road I find myself on, I’m like the thinker that was always willing to think far and beyond. I’m like the unusual because I like to be different, I’m not like the average man because I’m actually willing to listen, I feed off my mind shining as if it


Similes: Aka Comparisons Made Using the Words Like or As

Always had a glisten, I’m like the lost man in the sense that it’s hard for me to stick with commitment, I consider life a blessings which is why I like to go deep within it.
My flow so sick it's like I'm a diabetic, Run laps on this beat they think I'm so athletic,
I'm like Tupac because I'm spiritual and poetic, Spit truth and emotion like reality given not sympathetic, I eat while you sleep as if I was always energetic, Engineered differently like I got unique genetics..


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