BY Frank Medina (@FRANKELITONYC)
You always have a plan
but life has another
You grew up like family
called each other brother
Mothers went to high school together
got pregnant the same summer
Dreaming and scheming
were your bread and butter
But your lives changed
you chose one path
he didn’t choose the same
you wanted to go to school
he wanted to play the game
and then one night,
everything came to change.
Now he’s facing a 1-4
you wished he listened more
left his girlfriend pregnant
now she hurried out the door
Begged him to take it easy
hold down his father’s store..
But he chose the side he wanted
the money that he flaunted
women that he played
while he was living for the moment.
he did 2 years
came out searching for atonement
and what he came to find
the world was different
from when he owned it
His baby was 2
never knew her father
his girl met another hustler
and didn’t wanna bother
his mother had been sick
got depressed when he left
she had about another year
before she’d be laid to rest
The bills haven’t been paid
and got the family stressed.
So now your boy is a felon
can’t pay the rent
savings been spent
mom on the way to heaven…
and you sit and reminisce how the world
looked so much brighter
playing ball at age 11
You wishing you can take it back
redo it since birth..
so he could realize
everything that glitters
wasn’t all that it’s worth…
Check out: Notes to Self: The Lost Poems – Little Man
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