Urban Freedom Magazine Fall2016 "The New Black Wall St" Vol1 | Page 16

Purpose
By: Shade Bowman
They say if you're not dying for your people what will your legacy be,
Just another hood prophet with no chains on his feet,
Stamina for knowledge,
No college,
But shake your hands when we greet,
Dream chasers dropping dollars but in exchange we don't eat,
We're just,
Drowning in the possibilities since there has to be some possible explanation as to what
our purposes be,
And I purposely question where my destination will be when I choose to give up this
facade for a seat,
Will I dwell in some knowledge,
Will my purpose be guidance,
Will I break bread with the Gods in,
The temples of our Subconscious closets,
Like a Virgin to your existence so no Eve in your Gardens,
Just plenty of temptations and stimulation to your mind keeps you open,
We're all ruled by our habits so we don't meet the quota,
Doubters know we're outspoken they try to shut off our pineal sight,
We know we're not perfect but I know they see us chasing perfection right?
They see us,
And even though for them it's not essential
they've got to at least love the potential...Right?
The potential to be some of the greatest even though we may never be perfect for
them,
It's a battle striving to be excepted while your lights steady burning within,
And we are Constantly distracted by the things that keeps us focused,
But then,
They ask if you're not dying for your people what will your legacy be,
Just another hood prophet with no chains on his feet,
Stamina for knowledge,
No college,
But shake your hands when we greet,
Carrying weapons of mental mass destruction my people dying in these streets,
So will my purpose be purposely protecting that triple six mark since they say my brothers
are the beast,
Elec meets the Neu and the Pro leaves me in between,
Young Trons can't even make it to 18 that chemical makeup of we,
Like,
What that melanin means,
must know our history at least,
Just a cluster of Spiritual beings having a human experience,
And I bet they think that this is so farfetched that they're not even hearing this,
But we are here and we are unapologetically molding this,
Next generation to be the prototypes of the ones who take risks,
So their purpose will be to collectively uphold our ancestors list,
Then they'll see that our legacies still exists.

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