Our lifestyles be close captioned <br />addicted to fatal attractions <br />No fairy tales for this young black male <br />Some see me stranded in this land of hell, and jail waiting <br />until God sends me my mail <br />Wishing I live my life a legend, immortalized in pictures <br />Why shed tears? Save your sympathy <br />My childhood years were spent burying my peers in the cemetary <br />Here's a message to the newborns, waiting to breathe <br />If you believe then you can achieve <br />Just look at me <br />Against all odds, though life is hard we carry on <br />Living in the projects, broke with no lights on <br />To all the seeds that follow me <br />protect your essence <br />Born with less, but you still precious <br />Just smile for me now <br />Now as I open up my story <br />with the blaze <br />And you can picture thoughts slowly <br />up on phrases I wrote <br />And I can walk you through the days that I done <br />I often wish that I could save everyone <br />but I'm a dreamer <br />Have you ever seen a nigga who was dry in the rain <br />overlooking his tomorrows and they finally came? <br />Look back on childhood memories and I'm still feeling the pain <br />live too long in my past you will go insane <br />To many hassles in my local life, surviving the strain <br />But when I focus on reality I broke and in chains <br />Had a dream of living wealthy and making it big <br />And after all my momma's thanking God for blessing ha child <br />All my momma gots to do now is collect it and smile<br /><br />joshua reid<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/not-looking-back/
