This Is Me

Grandma said I'd make a good doctor... but that ain't me
I write my heart out for the whole world to see
You may have gave me so many tribulations to face
But I know I won't break like a fragile vase
I look a lot in the mirror, and spit on myself...
Show the scars and the wounds of the pain I've felt
Between the losses of life, and the loss of my mind
I still knew, somewhere I was destined to shine

I got the eye of the tiger, and the heart of a lion
Cut my chest open and see it beat... think that I'm lyin'?
When the springtime comes and the nightfall hits
I feel at peace at the world, and everything in it
I was raised by a single mother. At 9...
I started carrying a knife just to watch our behinds
Just me and my sister and mother... who else?
The love compensated for our lack of wealth

I'm just another dumb n***a with his head in the clouds?
F**k it... I'll take that title and I'll give you a bow
But if you think that my success is attributed to luck?
I'll tell you like a virgin do... I don't give a f**k....
Cuz as blood pumps thru my viens, and breath in my lungs
I will shoot of my mouth like it's a loaded gun.
Cuz in '02 I lost my best friend in his sleep...
and I made him a promise that I'm determined to keep
I told him no more darkness... even thru all the crime
I'ma find a way to get the f**k up out of the grime
I'ma find me a medium.... I'll stay on the grind
Our dream never was deferred even tho you died...

All the tears that I shed, all the joys in my life...
Is hear for all of you when to read when I write...
An outcry of my mind... that's what it be...
A Legend In My Own f****n' Rhymes.... this is me....