A short spoken-word performance (Suli Breaks) presented as a single continuous monologue. The speaker reflects on life’s brevity and irony, contrasts appearances versus reality, invokes freedom (Maya Angelou’s "caged bird"), notes how adversity can free the mind, and ends with a call to live with purpose so one’s influence becomes a legacy.
Chapters
Life is short, you will find that all that glitters is not gold and all love is not true Although the distinction between the two is like that between the common cold and the flu. A caged bird never sings according to Maya Angelou But I know many free birds that never found their tune because the girl of your dreams can become a nightmare in just one night and such is the irony of life that in a prison cell was where my friend learnt to free his mind every day A preconception is redefined when we're handed the contracts of life do we redefine because we spend time on triviality Then claim as we wave that that's a goodbye? I said we spend time on trivial things Then claim as we wave that that's a goodbye because apparently talk is cheap but we all used to believe in the tooth fairy they say freedom of speech, but my phone bill is due already. What is reality? What is real? Actually, what is substantial? Because when you stand back, what do you really stand for? Because there's no reason to live if you're not living for a reason. So live to the point where your influence becomes hereditary and your success becomes your legacy.