Youth/Growing Up

Zane SAZ

How are you gon' tell me
You have never lost so
Fingertips won’t hold you close
Dealing with my loss and..

I was growing on my own
I was boxing on my own
No longer on my own

You’re already gone so
Praise my love and let me go
Phases when I kept you close
Promise you’ll hold onto those

Damn you was right
Fuck it, I tried
The worlds falling down around us

Kojey Radical

Your arms will never be to short to box with god
To the mighty heartbeat thumping dormant as you slumber
The earth will tell your story as taught to you by the village
You were raised by. Your finger tips will contort as you begin
To conduct symphony on the heart strings of everyone
Who will ever place their love in side you
You eyes will beam
Looks of confusion then back to excitement as you discover
The earth moves in your stomach, you will smile when you
Discover your mother will have to clean it up. Your eyes will beam
Brighter the day you discover everything she gave to give you
Life. You will grow to wrap your strength around her sheltering
Her as if to pay homage to time spent in her womb
You will push with ease the boulders your fathers struggled to move
You will throw to him with same power it will take
Shift the sun. And his eyes will beam. And his mouth will speak the
Words of wisdom that his fathers teach
These words will run like liquid and you will take to the waters
Like a starved sponge
You will hear your mothers praises and sing them back when
Times are testing
You will hear the village sing for you
For you are loved, your innocence to be marvelled
Your touch so delicate it could remove the wings
Of a butterfly with a slight of hand. Your voice
So powerful it moves, and we will hush your tears
We will guide your steps. We will watch you crawl
And uplift you when you fall. We will watch you walk
And wait with bated breath to see you run
Because Your arms will never be to short to box with god
To the mighty heartbeat thumping dormant as you slumber
The earth will tell your story as taught to you by the village
You were raised by