15. TheReturn 10-2 v. 16. LDogg 4-3 (Vote Now!)

[Quriosity]

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[TheReturn]

Yep.

1 5. Lucifa 14-5 v. 6. Pain 3-1 (Vote Now!)
2 9. Stars€reen 0-2 v. 10. Daht Cahm 1-1 (Vote Now!)
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[Lord Drama]

in to win

[TheReturn]

They say that...
Every second two people slowly will die
Which means from the moment I open my eyes,
Until I roll on my side and hit SNOOZE, like ten people won't be alive.
That's two whole families, alone in the sky
Forever frozen in time, and riding down the highway to Heaven's doors.
And in the minute it takes to find clothes in my dresser drawers
Armed robberies have affected seven stores,
Money has been stolen from eleven more,
And five innocent men go to jail, unaware of what they're arrested for.
But what's next is more depressing, for
In a single hour, over five thousand women will press ABORT
On a helpless fetus before it's ever born.
That's like, every day when I'm driving to class,
Probably driving too fast cause I'm late but still striving to pass,
Instead of bugs hitting the windshield, it's babies flying then SPLAT!
Lucky ones are gliding right past,
Only to hit the next car, ending unborn lives with a crash.
I'm just trying to grasp, and separate the lies from the facts
How twelve hundred are murdered in a day, but if you survive the attack
You're reminded of the fact
That that's only including the States, United my ass.
And while I'm reclining back on the beach, vexed by wisdom
Spring Break is full fledged and kickin',
Beers in hands, and X in systems,
Prime time for forced sex and rapists looking for the next of victims
Totaling thirty-four hundred per week,
And that ain't counting statutories or the sex offenders.
It's these statistics so sadistic where I keep a vested interest
In the hope that one day we'll learn the lessons in them
To provide a better living for then next generation's pets and children.
Instead, we got 30 million living with AIDS in any month,
And nothing is getting done,
There's no cure, but only one out of five is even getting drugs
To keep the virus from splitting up and hitting us.
It's why, from the time I turned twenty
Fifty-six million won't be around to see me hit twenty-one.
And I keep stressing that we should learn a lesson from time,
From the depressions and lies,
The crooked lawyers dressed in their ties,
And the hundred grand a year that they invest at a time.
Or how the Lexus they drive
Could feed a whole village in Africa for the rest of their lives,
Saving thirteen million a year from starving to death worldwide.
I just, can't even begin to fathom the size,
Can't even imagine the lives caught in Tragedy's vise,
I can't, grasp with my mind the four billion that actually die
Over the course of a normal human's average life.
That's two-thirds of the planet passing with time
Equal to seventy years of looking into Death's ravaging eyes.
So there's some stats for you guys
And a free view of the fucked up thoughts in my head,
How I fought the regret of the realization that we ought to be dead,
Just another statistic causing me to toss in the bed
The nausea, the dread,
From thinking of all these fucked up thoughts that I scrawl with a pen.
How the thoughts from where this knowledge is fed
Took over my heart,
And shortly after, left my inner optimist dead...



"To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic”
-Albert Schweitzer

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[TheReturn]

blah, sure whatever.

[Lord Drama]

votes will go here

[Lord Drama]

If it wasn’t comic books he was reading, he was writing stories
Boredom always showed its face,
After mom left for work in the morning.
Ever since the neighbors moved, he never had a thing to do
so in his own childish way, he sang the blues….
The birds sang too, and at night the insects came to life
Each noise an incentive to write, giving his brain insight
But this wasn’t enough to be happy, he needed a friend
With mom never around, and a dad someone he’d never see again..
This changed though, one day, the day he’d never been so happy
The day he peered out his window to see a u haul, with kids and a family
He watched the sale sign collapse, glad to have some neighbors back
Especially some with kids, which wasn’t so, with his neighbors from the past
In a dash, he threw his shoes on, and with all the excitement of the hour
Walked towards her, in their first introduction, hoping she would like the flower

Seeing her through his window, she appeared as an angel from the sky
and when she opened up the door in person he saw the halo in her eyes
“hi” is all he could muster, she saw the flower and thought it was neat
She smiled and closed the door,
But it wasn’t the last time she would see the boy who lived by the creek.
Soon, they were with each other daily, always meeting by the fort
That protected them from the rain when reading stories, under the lighter’s torch

On days that were nice, they played outside, when no one was home
Sometimes pretending to be sex operators who spoke over the phone
It was all to pass time, and as it passed when they grew
This boy slowly began loving the only friend that he knew.
He often wished to express his feelings, but didn’t want to ruin what they had
And love wasn’t something he knew much of, never seeing mom give it to dad
He was a year older than her, but she seemed so ahead of his time
That when she began spending time with others from school he lost his mind
Being the only child, he valued things that would light up his heart
and valued this girl, who he dreamed would be his wife, right from the start
but as their maturity aged, the days of childhood were appearing to fade
for the girl, who had big dreams of sitting on beaches, hearing the waves
having tuition paid through scholarship, it seemed her fate was to attend
Berkley where she’d be too busy working to remember hurting her friend

He helped pack her bags and each item slipping into her storage
Had him feeling like one the bears who came home missing their porridge
She kept mostly clothes, he watched her throw away the old phone
That they use to play with outside before they were grown
He felt his childhood slip away once the last was packed...
When they were done, he sat and cried, wishing he could bring his past back
But that wouldn’t be enough to keep his dream alive,
He couldn’t breathe inside, so walked outside to see the sky
Did god want to see him die? How would he live without her?
How could she leave him when he knew all the little things about her?

She assured him she would keep in touch as she boarded the filled buss
And as the doors closed he froze, too afraid to fully spill his guts
As it picked up speed to leave he ran to try and stop it
But the driver didn’t see him in his way and just then, he got hit
From the hospital room, he woke, with her hand stuck to his
And with her smile she told him that he was lucky to live
Seeing him injured in bed with wounds that would permanently cripple his world
She knew in her heart that he deserved to be with his original little girl…
Her dreams of college life and career to follow, took a back seat
To the love she always had for this lonely country boy who was sweet
She remembered the first time they met, when the love was first found
That moment he looked into her eyes with a flower he dug from the ground…
She vowed never to leave him, in a month they were married on a beach with sand
And to this day, they travel the streets side by side, hand in hand
In a way that only people who have had true love can understand.

[Got Life?]

0-0

up over no-shows

[Daht Cahm]

Drama- Your story was spectacular. It was pretty stereotypical in nature, boy meets girl, boy loves girl, girl leaves boy, girl comes back to boy, boy and girl live happily ever after. But none the less I loved the way it was written. Mechanics were good. It flowed pretty well. One thing… how did he get his wheelchair in the sand for the wedding? Haha okay maybe inappropriate; but it just made me laugh. Over all I really liked this.


Return- Well like I said before, this is the type of stuff I think about as well. And though some people may call me crazy, I couldn’t find anything worth mention “wrong” with this piece. I loved it…

“It's why, from the time I turned twenty
Fifty-six million won't be around to see me hit twenty-one.”

^^^ That’s so real to me, especially now that I’m in Iraq.



This was really hard; you had a great story, against a heart felt smack in the face kick in the nuts reality check.


In the end I have to give it to Return.

[Lucifa]

had to take a break before wrapping up these final 3 battles .. reckoned I'd leave the better looking (no homo) match-ups til last ..

Return - as usual .. you just kill it with a slippery smooth flow taking us through your verse .. the content was shit hot too .. I ain't gonna be checking to see how factual your stats are, but I figure you're not far off .. and for that .. god damn that's some hard shit to pull off .. but you did it .. spewing out numbers and statistics within the verse holding the content together like superglue on steroids .. overhyping? .. what-the-fuck-ever! .. this was sick .. major kudos ..

LDogg - after ^ .. it's not looking good is it? .. you seriously would have had to bring something utterly raw and engaging to compete here .. Return bought some flames .. this was a pretty good verse all the same .. from what I've read so far - this would have taken it against a fair few of the competitors this week .. the same issues as ever arise when I read your work though .. verses feel above average but without that extra spark and personality to them .. it's like a lazy experienced writer fading away from former glory .. I think that if a topic or opponent really sparked that interest in writing from you .. you are capable of dropping a really dope piece .. however you remain somewhat 'lethargic' with 80% of your verses .. basically - you need to get your 'passion' for writing for a "shitty text league" back ..

Vote = TheReturn .. outstanding verse .. and dropped it mad early too ..

[Got Life?]

TR - I think this was good, I know it's been done before, maybe just not in the RSTL...and I think you definitely showed topicals can still hold weight...the flow and scheme as always was your strong suit...way to go MVP...

L - this feels like something you rehashed due to the time constraint that you were under...nothing really original offered, yet written fairly well...kind of one of those verses any vet can pull out, but definitely not enough to stomp out TR...I also hate the whole cluttering pieces with every picture...it's to much for me.

vote = TR.

[Master Peace]

Return...I really liked this piece. The whole stat thing I thought was dope. It was a good read and I didn't get bored with it at all. The structure was good and the flow was on. Kept me interested until the end. Nice drop

Drama...This was a good piece as well. I honestly didn't see much wrong with this. The story was basic but it didn't really matter because the flow and structure was nice. It was still a good ass read. Something like a movie.

It was hard to decide who would win this but in the end I liked returns drop more. it was just more interesting

v/TR

[Dougie G]

WOW!!!,WOW!!!,WOW!!!, Easily Match of the week, Damn what can I say WOW

TR: First off what up Homie, welcome back to the league, well let's get to this verse. This shit was off the chain, I mean it fwelt like you were talking shit about the reader, but they were still forced to listen, The flow was perfect and the rhyme scheme was off the chain.

"Instead of bugs hitting the windshield, it's babies flying then SPLAT!" WHAT that line was fucking sick, damn this shit was nice.

Drama: This verse was also nice, I mean I couldnt find any fauls in this one either, it was just a great love story, I mean you used the pics beautifully to help the story flow along at a beautiful pace.

Vote: The Return, for havigna more entertaining verse, but dont get me wrong it was close as hell. Good shit fellas

[inkwell (chris)]

battle of the week for sure. the return your verse blew me away, first ive seen from you, made me say "oh, i see" if you know what I mean. also a great showing from ldogg, definately a couple of contenders. my only complaint with your verse here ldogg is trying to use like all of the pictures is gettng a bid played this season, and i think it actually shows less creativity, almost as if u need the pics to write your story for you. TR - u def brought topicals back this week.

vote - tr

[Got Life?]

TheReturn wins 6-0

loses 2 votes for not voting on 4.

LDogg loses 4 for not posting links though he voted...

final tally...

TR 4 LD -4