I'm not going to fail. - pipTalk Forums

How to Join	Member's Area	Private Library	Search	Sanctuary		Login
Main Forums	Discussion	Tech Talk	Mature Content	Archives	A home without a wall, Our haven without ends, A circle we all call Our Family of Friends!

Teen Poetry #2

I'm not going to fail.

Poetic Dreams
Junior Member

since 1999-10-23

Posts 23
Lindsa, OKlahoma United States

0 posted 1999-10-30 05:34 AM

Living in the Getto life
Like everyone says isn't easy
It's like hell on earth
But only worse.
Drive by's, babies cry.
Watching your back makin sure you don't die.
Moma throwin babies in the trash can.
Can't get a brother to step up and be a man.
All these years in the getto life.
You think someone would clean up and face reality.
But they don't.
And they won't.
Its like they think this is where they belong.
But I have been here too long.
I am saying goodbye to drive by's.
My man can come but the guns got to stay.
Because I want my baby to grow up where he can look people in the face and say "My daddy a man, he got out of the getto life and took a stand."
No more guns, no more drugs, no more jail.
For we aren't in this life to fail.

------------------

~Once it is said it can't be forgotten, but can always be forgiven~

TearsOfPearls
Member

since 1999-09-23

Posts 322
Vereeniging, South-Africa

1 posted 1999-10-30 10:41 AM

I thought this was a good poem. In a way I can relate to it. I don't live in a getto, but living in South-Africa is almost like that.

Great poem.

Star Fairy 2
Member

since 1999-09-06

Posts 260
cerritos, california, usa

2 posted 1999-10-30 01:36 PM

Wow! very powerful

------------------
Don't Fall.. Rise in Love
-------823-------

	⇧ top of page ⇧
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.