Take My Hand

We're on time borrowed
Never promised tomorrow (Don't waste it)
Dreams I follow
Can't see shine nine spits hollows (Pop pop pop)

Corner stories
Urban jungles (Real out here)
One opportunity don't fumble
Day Ones snitch off words mumbled (Rat)

From where snow covers corpses
Smell's horrid (Sticks with you)
Reflection in Book of Psalms
Felt life leave loved ones hands (I felt it)

Shot and stabbed for name brands
It's numbing to see faces on murals (T-Shirts too)
Lost will to cry at funerals
Gotta shoot for stars (Always)

Aim for the moon
Praying not to leave Earth too soon
Dark clouds of a city's monsoon
Goons loom like creatures from lagoons

Stick ups for fast bucks
Knife tucks rips guts
Everyone's down on luck
Shots ring your life scene's cut (Grah Grah Grah)

Looking to the sky (I'm looking)
Asking God why
The dearly departed had to die (Too soon)
I can't hear God replying

Stare at tombstones sighing (Wheezing)
Breathe deep as if asleep
Can't escape pain remaining deep (Never)
Saturated blood in concrete

Running like it's a track meet
Seeming impossible to live
Cause lack of innocence to give
Survive by a gun or succumb to one (Choose)

Mother's mourning their sons (Mikey G)
Battle of good and evil who won
City's consumed by cold cases
Neighborhood paintings of faces (Dreams too)

Never forgotten (Long live)
World's rotten
Bullet holes blood stains riddle cotton (Pick em up)
Trench's sadistic

Statistics resulted from ballistics (Bow Bow Bow)
People here don't have fear
Stick up for Nike Air's proper gear (Run that)
Get left for a wrong stare

Friend's a dub when intentions ain't clear (Been a dub)
Death is a caveat of economy
D.A. prosecutes Lil' Bro for robbery (Free JoJo)
Alone in state property

Breaking bread properly (On his books)
Betrayed discovery of a plea
Open eyes to see
How loyalty was frail

Stuck in jail waiting on mail
Judge ordered refusal of bail
Skin color went pale
Sentencing consecutive (Hold your head)
Trapped inmate executive

The world needs better men
Hard escaping the Lion's den (Wicked)
Can't think lesser
Become better (Every day)

For mother's wives daughter's
Quit being midnight marauders (Get off the block)
Gotta stack six figures
Ain't about pulling triggers (Life's valuable)

Carried by six buried under
Senseless death from one blunder (Think bigger)
Lessons taught from burners squeezing
Bodies tally reaps sows casket's receiving (Full circle)

What goes around
Comes around (Karma)
Parables spoken
Opens opus of heart's broken

Atonement of life is awoken
What is humanity being taught (Senseless)
Thoughts in sort of answers I sought
Preaching for a lotta better days (God hear me)

If God saves
Why does good decay while evil stays (Why though)
In a city's craze crime pays
Bystanders hit by strays

Impossible to accept demons (I see em)
Although justifying reasons
Life's a mystery without answers (It is)
Why good die young

Why at fifteen I lost Ma Dukes to cancer (That's life)
Songs unsung
Among a silent tongue
Life teaches pain young

Memories I clung
Heroin needles stun like a bee stung (Damn Big Bro)
Addiction strung (Why Big Bro)
Deeper dive than a plunge (Chapter five)
Reaching out like a lunge (Can't save em)

Smoking to get lifted (Puff)
Depictions reality shifted
Russian roulette (Playing odds)
Seeing death next

Eulogy through text (Suicidal thoughts)
Family's perplexed
Ready to die (Just like Biggie)
Steady eye on the sky

Ascension other dimensions
Hand's toward God like in class for attention
Ode of a farewell (Too many farewells)
Heads nod

Mourn adorn in silence
Torn thorn of a rose in defiance
My heart's bleeding (Still is)
Seeking love I'm needing

Who can relate (Can you)
Dirt on boxed crates
October third's a date (On my chest)
Written in fate

Open Heaven's gates
She escapes to better estates (She's living better)
Vibrations through time and space
Left to wander this place

Her title could never be replaced (Only one Mom)
Embraced a life free of waste
Time shared I can't erase
Lace the happier times I retrace