A Poem By Jaliza Collins
June 17, 2004

Something That Hooked Me

You were the best around and no one could touch you
from J. Kidd to G.P. not even M.J. if he was there too.
But a couple of bad decisions ended your career

They ended your career before it even got started,
and just think, you could have been the best
I mean not good, but damn the boy is blessed

I know you wish you hadn't made some of the choices that got you to be where you are now but remember this please don't forget it God put there fore a reason and brought you back out because he saw something in you life that could help Him Save others

You have a testimony that you can tell the World and that's great He put you there and brought you back out to tell people how your life was and all the things you did

But even after "being a bad person" for sometime, there will always and will be a good person inside of you

That's the reason most of your childhood friends didn't say the hell with you

They saw something special, a bright star that was shining in you even in your darkest days and moments

So I say to you congratulations because you haven't lost anything but you gained the world

You feel Peace within your Soul and who knows maybe if you did go to the NBA, you wouldn't have been as successful as you thought your would have been

In my yes and in other's eyes too Demetrius "Hook" Mitchell you are a living Legend in our book.

Thank you for touching my life and sharing yours with others

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