Lost souls,
Like chainless dogs
Wander these streets
Families and homes
Once solid, now broken
Like the glass bottles and syringes
Crushed below our feet
Abandoned children
Like cars no longer running
Give front yards a cemetery-like ambience
Back yards once lush with green grass
Cookouts and laughter
Now dawn a desert atmosphere
Mothers birth fatherless children
Taking lessons from the harlots of the game
Learning to expose their body
Sliding down poles and dancing
For faux love and fame
Victims of false admiration
Secretly and openly called tricks and whores
As if their given name
Living their lives through other peoples fantasies
Getting and having no respect
Yet absent of shame
Boys no longer reach for success
Or to be the father they never had
Instead of making their own way
They follow in his path
Fertilizing seeds, not helping them to grow
Abandoned fruit from the tree just as their father
I guess you do reap what you sow
No more visions of the lime-light
Being a doctor, athlete or lawyer
Just rappers and thugs
There words and heart meaningless
Diluted by violence, alcohol, and drugs
Hyped by images of gangster disguises
Portrayed by the music industry
Hiding behind explicit lyrics
And iced out jewelry
Believing the "good life"
Revolves around smoking blunts
Poppin' Crys and drinking Hennessey
Like the robes and hoods of the klan
Expensive cars and clothes
Hide there true identity
And dreams are no longer legitimate schemes
But weighed out on triple beams
Success no longer measured by your ability to move people
But rather the ability to push
Grams, O's, and KI's
We have become fascinated
By that which is fabricated
Blocking out what has true value
And everything that's real
To get a bigger piece of this ****** up American pie
We lie, cheat, murder
And steal
No longer is it "them"
But we, killing off each other
No longer believing in the word
Honoring thy father and mother
We have gotten away
From being the keeper
Of my brother
Like wingless birds
Unable to fly above society's expectation
Blaming the failures of our people
On slavery and plantations
Yet those fields are the roots of our strength
Backbone of our faith
And mother to our dedication
Calling each other *****, like its nothing
Yet when said from someone outside the race
It offends thee
Blaming the problems we endure on a daily basis
On the "Man", racial profiling, and society
Yet in all actuality
We
Are our own worst enemy
2006-08-10
04:15:01
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24 answers
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trubornsoulja
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