To Live Is To Die

I refuse to keep crying

I am one of these soldiers

From war they are dying

Wake up and smell the folgers

This life is an epidemic

This world is apocalyptic

Society tied together by

The thinnest of threads

Torn by disease into the

Slightest of shreds

Children are famished

Mothers are damaged

Smoke, drink, crack, cocaine

Our generation is not the same

These women choose

to shoot up their veins

While the children are the ones

to suffer the pain

And our fathers are the ones

who hold the blame

Sometimes though it is not our choice

In a home where a woman

Has no voice

She didn't choose for her

Husband to drink

His fists are the mouth

He chooses to think

These streets are twisted

Only for my children

I will miss it

My youth was stolen

My lip pounded swollen

When I screamed stop

As this man climbed atop

Not much further could he go

When I cried and pleaded

With him no!

A dollar or two

He offered me

This is what I was worth to he

The man that fathered me

In my life no longer is he

Around my children

He will not be

We were put on this earth

To live and to die

You can choose to tell the truth

Or you can lie

Love me or hate me

Coincidence don't phase me

We forgive but

Can't forget

And live our lives by regret!