Reality Check #1

Think about your life people!!!

We live in a life, where we're in constant war

One wrong word and you just might not live

Blue hates red, red hates black

When I was little colors where just that colors

But know it's bigger than that, it's gangs

It's a war some of us don't belong in

Someone gets shot and it's called the wrong place at the wrong time

And that's it, one more soul taken by a weapon shot from another person

No, it should be bigger that, it should be bigger than we make it

I want live to make it past 21, I want grow up and see life

But how can we even try and live life, when we constantly fighting a war

A war some of didn't know exist

But as long as we living, we fighting

As long as we fighting we dying

But the war goes so much deeper than the physical

It's mental

If someone does me wrong, I feel I have to fight back

But when I fight back, it's gonna be 10 times worse

This is the mentality we live with

We never can take things lightly

We push things to the extreme

And we get extreme result

17 year old boy found dead on the streets

Words will remian words, no matter how bad they hurt

Yeah they scar, but to take a mental feeling

and force someone to have the physical feelings

Is that what we really want.

I want live to be living

Instead of living  to be fighting

Cause then we all lose

REALITY CHECK NUMBER 1

Reviews

[Matthew Kult]

Great write from some local flavor for me. You missed a few words, as this seemed to flow from your fingertips. Nothing that takes away from the poem. This would be a great spoken word, something you should think about performing to bring the realizations of gangs and violence to a forfront. I believe you have received a calling. I hope you go with it.

Your fellow St. Louis Native

Matthew