Existence

Existence
Copyright - 1/25/96

Chaos in the streets
As the deprived child sweats
Standing in the eye of the beholder
Being brave and never bolder.

Chaos in the cities
Gangland reigns children's lives
Live or die its only resistance
Shoot or flee the only existence.

When a boy becomes a man
Does he strap a gun in his hands?
What does it take to be a man?
Is it religion, family or gang?
If he shoots, doesn't it make him guilty?
Is it peer pressure leading him astray?
Or is he merely looking the part and becoming prey?

A child's existence in this world
Is tougher than any existence
But a child should amount to more
Without drugs, gangs, violence and gore.

Chaos rules the boundaries
Gangs tell what and who
The eye of the storm grows
Gangsters reap what they sew.

Chaos knows no man
Young and rebelling against law
Killings and drive-by shootings
Only pain and suffering it brings.

When a child takes to the streets
Does he join a gang in spite?
What does it take to stay cool?
Is it drugs, gangs and hoods?
If the child drops books and chances a gun
Does he kick it with homeboys G-style for fun?
Why do we allow children to rule the city?
When do we stop to take pity?

A homeboy's existence on the streets
I tougher than any existence
But homeboys should be children first
To become a man to quench the thirst.