You Just Jellin

Another school shooting . . .

And yet again we fail to identify the problem.

The problem is not the lack of security in the schools,

It is not the drill exercise that went wrong.

The problem is the lack of care for young souls

and the cantankerous states of green minds

The ostentatious culture of want and greed

and the inability for those in power to see the effects of their underhanded, lustful dealings.

 

And they say amongst themselves;

"Who sees the things that we do?

Who will tell on us?

Who will deal with us?"

. . . and we fall again

Even further from the truth

and the condition of the world falls deeper into sleep

and the voices of the people drown in the sea of noise

 

Oh my soul

Oh my soul

Living a life

and letting go

Oh my life

oh my life

I reject the heaviness

of hunger and strife

Instead I speak peace into the world

to generations

not yelling

To not have a spirit of Peace

means you just jellin

I had an interesting conversation with a student about the use of this particular slang word "Jellin."  It is something that the young people are saying right now.  I hear it often and I was wondering what it means.  He used it when telling a young lady "she was Jellin" while she was attempting to get her phone back from him.  This event happened in the cafeteria, the young man stood slanted against the wall while the young lady patted his pockets in the attempt to find her phone.  The students were free to converse however they wanted but I did tell him to give the phone back.  Then I ask him what Jellin meant and he explained it as such:  "Making the situation worse then it has to be."  Now, because I  didn't have the full understanding of how the word was used in conversation, I asked other people.  Other students told me that it meant you were jealous of something and so you acted in a way that could make a situation worse then it had to be.  This is how I see the condition of the world.  We have  people in high power jealous of the peace that poorer people carry around.  These people make stupid decisions that make the situation worse, they jellin.  On the opposite end, we have poor people trained to be consumers, making stupid money decisions because they are jealous of those who are rich, they jellin.  We all just jellin.

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