By: Tony L. Jefferson, Jr.
Don’t doom me to live an empty life
So I can live out the rest of my years in strife
Please save me from my horrible past
Can someone hear me out there at last?
I’m tired of these fuck ups skating through
While I struggle along battling through the zoo
Leaderships eroded
Glad I told it
Where’s my reward or recognition?
Somewhere skewered into disfiguration
At night I cry with silent tears
Cause I been neglected for all these years
I was always told to work hard and you’ll get your way
But it seems as if the lazy and good for nothing get all the praise
Is this the way everyone else was raised?
To disrespect, disrupt, and discourage others
I thought we were all supposed to be brothers
And let’s not forget the sisters
Who pass you by without even a hi
But expect respect and to be treated most high
These people I swear get under my skin
But in the morning I replace the skin I’m in
They don’t deserve my honest reply
All they deserve is a damn lie
The world has become so self-centered
And all of your self-respect has surrendered
Seems like I fell down the wrong path sometimes
Like everyone else has the luck of the times
But then I reflect and see the truth
Cause all of those problems are under one roof
Come peek inside and seem my struggle
Then take a look at another’s trouble
That mothers pride hidden inside
But what she’s really thinking is suicide
That fathers stride as he walks to work
His car at home because it’s broke
No money to fix it
No money to nix it
Just a daily existence no one could imagine
But today’s world doesn’t care to imagine
To busy passing the problem to another
Instead of stopping one day to help another
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