- So our next performer is a business student.
Really, really interesting guy,
I just couldn't stop thinking of him when I first met him,
to get him to the ASAP program.
He's lived all over this country.
I call him my national man of mystery,
because he's not my international man of mystery.
He's performing a poem for you this afternoon.
His name is Mr. Ronald Newton.
(people cheering) (hands clapping)
Whoo!
(hands clapping)
Yeah Ron!
- Yes, I like bananas, right.
Alright, can y'all bear with me,
I'm actually, have the poem in my Blackberry.
I relapse like I double back in a swimming pool,
Breaking bad habits, should be simple too,
but that's too simple bein' human, what limits you.
Human me is always gettin' me through the day-to-day.
All we been through, I guess that's
what buffers the pleasure and pain,
we all seem to compete, but we all want the same.
That's to be complete, we all try to piece together
the piece of the worlds for world peace,
but it seems insane, it seems we be burstin' at the seams.
When the fat cats workin' the controls of the machine.
When it fueled by our hopes, and it's burned by the exhaust.
All our dreams, and we hope for a delay,
but failure's on the fray, should I go or should I stay?
Should I fight or run away?
Should I run away, should I run away?
♪I can't keep runnin' away ♪
(applause)
♪I can't runnin' away ♪
♪I can't keep runnin' away but I do ♪
I keep on runnin' away until I hit the far side
I keep on runnin' away until the philosophy
starts to separate by darker
and lighter side like a pawn tag,
I see that concrete under my feet,
and I wanna be somethin', but I don't know
where I wanna be, it's just a notion to my emotions.
Sometimes I feel like I'm alone,
floatin' in the middle of the ocean,
motion, tryin' to rowin', and I'm quotin' this!
♪I gotta live for the day 'cause ♪
♪ tomorrow ain't promised to me ♪
♪ I wanna piece ♪
♪ I want the whole recipe ♪
♪ If you got it, I wanna take it ♪
♪ If you're willin' ♪
♪ You're comin' with me ♪
♪ Bitch womans get your playin' inside ♪
♪ No secrets still across the land ♪
I'm runnin', 100 miles of runnin' like how back
in 1988 mix tapes in the way say.
(crowd wooing)
And I keep on runnin' without any delay.
I keep on runnin' because I keep on rowin'.
I keep on flowin'.
I keep on goin' against that curve.
I'm not talkin' about the current that waters blast,
I'm talkin' about that current that's right here,
right now, the present, that's everlastin'.
And I'm tryin' to pass that past,
but I don't got no ration, and I keep
on flashin' like lightning, I bet tryin' to fightin' it,
but I keep on striking it down,
but I keep on
♪runnin', runnin' there ♪
♪runnin' runnin' there ♪
runnin', runnin' until I try to run away
from all my troubles, I keep on runnin',
but I still puzzle, I try to run away
against all my problems, I keep on runnin' away
because I can't solve it!
I keep on runnin' (crowd cheering)
runnin', runnin', I can't get any sleep,
I keep on runnin', increasing my speed,
I keep on runnin' against my wants,
I keep on runnin' against my needs,
I keep on runnin' until my legs start to bleed
I keep on runnin' and I relapse this.
And my brain starts to collapse as I start slowin' down.
What was I runnin' for?
So I stop.
And I start seein' the light, an epiphany.
I looked in my rear view, 20/20 hindsight,
and all this time, I've been runnin' for so long,
and all these days, they're all gone.
And I'm still sittin' here in the days,
keep on thinkin' of that song,
♪Can't keep runnin' away ♪
(crowd cheering) (crowd clapping)
- [Danielle] Nice, awesome Ronald, awesome.
(clapping) (cheering)