The Drug Addict

It’s the first of the month I wake up and get my welfare check
Off to my dealer to spend it all that’s what happens next
I’m addicted to drugs and I stay out all night
Come back at at least 3 in the morning high
Momma is crying and it turns into a fight
Because she is so afraid of how I’m gon die
I can’t lie, deep down I want help so my fam
Doesn’t have to worry about me getting slammed
A little too hard to the point where my heart
Stops beating and can’t be saved by any ER
I know they love and I love them so I wanna quit
But despite all this I’m addicted let me get a hit.

Drowning

In all these disadvantages I’m drowning
Because anybody who takes a pounding
Finds no justice because the courts will just say fuck us
Police in riot gear silence us with tear gas and dust ups
If you’re poor you don’t get a choice because money talks
You don’t get a voice you get a third shift and a five mile walk
But don’t worry just work hard, go to college, and get a job
And ignore the student debt that’ll make you live with mom
It’s just capitalism and all fair play
It why people immigrate to the United States
To be oppressed and live on the streets and handle unsanitary meats
And work in the fields in the dead of the summer’s heat
We’ve worked hard and what were we given?
A good job and a house to live in?
Nope we are still poor and live behind locked doors
Afraid to open our mail, can’t afford medical treatment for
Well…. Anything. Any condition at all
But we get to see people who have cars
And wear fancy suits but lack any heart
Tell us relief is coming. Feeding us bullshit
Because they’ve said that since the revolution
So I sit unable to pay my bills crying without making sounds
Wishing that there was a pond for me to go drown

Choose to Rise

We all got problems, some big and some small
From not having a meal to some girl that won’t call
But focus on our government here in the states
Because recently there’s problems there I can’t take
Anymore most of them focused on perceived war
Watch out for ISIS and Ebola they’re the real wars
While police are causing people to cover their shops with boards
So much for your motto of “protect and serve”
Because you’re shooting kids who are unarmed
But we shouldn’t worry because black that kid was
Then we go out and protest in peace
Because we feel it’s unfair he’s deceased
Police don’t like that so they roll in on tanks
And laugh as they throw tear gas all over my face
The news networks tell us it’s not big deal
Just focus on Ebola and mock the presidential seal
And ISIS is coming! But, hmmm just wait.
Is that not a problem that we did create
I’d say check the history books but they’re being wiped clean
Of any injustices that might guilt you and me
Slavery is over so is the fight for civil rights!
There is no such thing as privilege of the white!
We are completely equal, her you and I
“Then might I get equal pay?” Now hold on and hear why
Women get free drinks from all of us men
“But what about us?” Shut it lesbians!
So our problem seems to be the denial that everyone has
Problems even the American government
And with every problem you get a choice
Find a solution or choose to avoid
By sweeping it under the rug
Ignoring people calling black kids thugs
And I’m not saying live like Lord of the Flies
But the potential for 1984 is on the rise
And now we have a choice, yes you and I
Ignore this problem and find a solution and rise

Love Crushes

You like the girl and she likes you
So you get together, just you two
You think you know each other and start to date
I’m excited for our dinner at eight
But just ask Eminem it’s a sick love game
No one is perfect, we’re all insane
We grow so attached to that girl or boy
That without we become totally destroyed
And would do anything for one last dance
Or a walk where you are holding hands
But they’ve moved on, that thing you can’t
Seem to do. And now you are getting out of hand
Drinking all night living songs The Script wrote
Desperately trying to please a person you’re unwanted by
You flip your life upside down
In a desperate attempt to not drown
In this ocean of pain
But you’re drifting away
Just to become a shark’s fresh prey
But they don’t want you to call them bae
They want to claw your back and scream your name
But after a while the fun in that goes away
And your left sitting there feeling empty
Pleading with God and you pray
In between hits of the blunts
And shots of 151
Knowing could save you but that girl, she was the one.

Nothingness

I have every kind of problem left and right
And it makes me wonder what I have in life
A bunch of health problems I can’t afford
Bills I can’t pay galore. Why am I in this world?
I have friends but I can’t get close
Why, you ask? The hell if I know
What do I have have in life?
I guess just have the poems I write
Do they suck? Maybe
But it’s the best art to come out of me

Can’t Let Go

I left you once, I left you twice
But for whatever reason, you’re my vice
I really wish that I could know
The reason I can’t let you go

Love is a Real Problem

Love is important no matter what people say
Because it can be the only reason one survives another day
While, at the same time, be the source of their pain
All these smiles, tears, and emotional strains
Love is the primary reason we live

“Your parents divorced? Suck it up child.
Your parents aren’t you, so why are you so wild?
Sit down in class, it’s not a real problem.”
Why are we so blind to the tears this has caused them?

“So what if your dad’s gone you never knew him.
Just forget about him. He’s not important.”
Says the one who grew up with both of their parents
Plus you brought it up so now I’m embarrassed

“Your girlfriend left? Move on the the next.”
How can I? “Just go out and have sex.
Why are you crying, there’s plenty of girls left”
Yeah, but they’re not the ones I loved with whom I was blessed.

Stop acting like these things aren’t real problems
All of these are as real and as solemn
As a family death, or a disease of depress
“Suck it up.” No, take a rest.
Deal with the struggle and conquer the pain
You are strong enough to live many more days

This

So much going on in my head
But when I’m with you those problems are dead
Chemistry is beyond anything I’ve known
The fun we have, my mind is blown
Now I start to think this might be real
You being my girlfriend could be more than an idea.
I mean, when we kissed, that’s how it feels.

You Don’t Know Me

“The man I know wouldn’t walk away.”
Damn, I guess you know everything about me
So go ahead, explain why I’m upset
Oh? What’s that? Why so quiet?
All of the sudden, cat got your tongue?
I’m done caring, you could go get hung
And I wouldn’t blink, but you’d be on my mind
Fuck, I do this every time.

Funny Politics Part Six

Government by the people, but only if you’re rich
If you’re not then stay stuck in your proverbial ditch
There’s no need to pay attention to what you say
When we’re getting more money and power everyday