puffy eyes <br />smoke out <br />the homies getting burnt out <br />if they're not dying in the streets <br />they're dying in the spots <br />selling their precious lives <br />and the little riches that they got <br />what's the point in selling to a smoker <br />when they smoking the crack <br />their own homies <br />from their own hood <br />blasting them <br />when they're suppose to have their backs <br />these brothas will shoot you granny <br />and kidnap your baby girl <br />i've witnessed it <br />with my eyes in tears <br />that moment when it first occurred <br />you could see every ones fears <br />it's a war in the ghetto <br />it's today's world <br />little girls are running around <br />giving up their kitty <br />real easy <br />birthing their own reputations <br />of being a hoody <br />females having so many babies <br />and not knowing who the daddies <br />just to get on the county <br />taking sex for granted <br />if there was no such assistance <br />would they still have had them <br />not being able to afford them <br />now that child might get caught up in the system <br />the same system that there mother relies on or relied on <br />to take care of them <br />now caught up in foster-care <br />having suicidal thought <br />fuleed by thoughts that no one cares <br />but then again <br />if they can just get over the rainbow <br />they could be some one <br />some one that can change the fate of another <br />there's tramplings when you're all alone <br />when your trying to prosper on your own <br />it's one hell of a road <br />if they're not dying in the streets <br />they're dying in the spots <br />selling their precious lives <br />and the little riches that they got<br /><br />Leeona (XOXO's) Sugakixs<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-they-re-not-then-they-re/