I don't wanna be understood
I don't wanna be pitied
I don't wanna be observed
I got everything I need
Can you set me free
From this breath that I breathe
Can you take away everything I need
And replace it with the love of my family
Is it possible that you can split a heart in two into one?
Is it inevitable that you can't catch my pun?
Did you catch that A train on metro-tech
Or did you catch the c train that don't go to your stop
Waiting for the A
Why must I be waiting at this station
Being held back in forth
Steadily waiting
Ripping me apart
The force of a fierce grip, contemplating
My fate, that has still yet to be played with
ADHD split the battle of power struggle between me an the young
Fought for the clothes got me and her mentally spun
The womb that I once came left me behind
Found a new dick and told my dad goodbye
My mother working hard
Arguments come to a daily
She the man of the house I know she happy
The misery she feel it to be
The food on the table she made for me, for us to eat?
Don't question the lady, please
My mother is apart of me
Don't disobey the alpha in me
Dad sitting here alone but steady
Getting new girls every week
My eyes weren't ready
Thots, hoes and whores come in and out
Deep white substance it's drenched with
That I'm heavily influenced, socially it clicks
This joke that I'm saying
Can you get it?
Do I have to write a sentence with a period and a , so you can understand it?
This bad joke that everyone is telling You know family problems?
Everyone experienced it Nothing new to you, to me, to us?
Do you feel it?
The pang in your heart The anxiety, the adrenaline feeling
Even we shared the tears
Between our eyelashes
The expression I put on my face to be expressionless
This oppression within this family
The democracy is a diss
Can I enforce this pain To my face?
Can I paint the picture
That the outsiders can not seem to claim
Can we wrap our minds around the love we cannot receive
I'd rather it be delivered than for forgotten so we grieve
The Truth Coming From Within was produced by Bridging Education Art Together & East Side Community High School.
AMPEM released The Truth Coming From Within on Thu Oct 17 2013.