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Reflection/ Uncertain Times
By Leon Sykes
Youth Radio's Leon Sykes reflects on conditions of inner-city neighborhoods, and puts a poetic twist on the struggle for social change.
E pursuit for happiness ended wit guns clappin/ Makin way to da morgue tell 'em what
happened
Moms saddened only son not football captain, he huddled on corners wrappin not rappin/
Startin at young ages wit waists strappin
Watchin your every step...they National Geographin/ Ghettoes of America birth new
seeds/ Designed for trappin
Socioeconomic scale tiltin towards depression/ Learning institutes avoid this lesson/
Forcin 300 years of more oppression
Mother Earth dyin, revive her with chest compression/We're humankind that is
anything resembling tha word
Soarin birds that are outta action downed in verb/ Necks bent on curbs battered like
housewives in suburbs
Bums beggin for change not coins/ Tryin to restore what we're destroyin, you know
whole households
Place where we can grow young yet old/ Manage the crisis, Niggas life is priceless
All this violence needs to cease and desist/ Bodies bludgeoned across areas
mass murders decapitating federal reserve notes chopped in half
Danger's climbin to da top of da graph/ Google earth won't show the destruction dun
started
This sea of blood, Moses won't part it/Drugs of illegal proportions fill the land, same time
same place babies exchangin hands
Once a flourished community thrived in riches/Now the land of Niggas and Bitches/
Used to be kings and queens/ Now da land for new drugs on da scene, and stick-up kids
for lil things
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