If You Don't, Don't Start

I know it get rough, seem like faith is not enough, when it seem everything that you dreamed, will not become, but a message to all troubled folks, who live it broke, I don’t care where you’re from, don’t be dumb and choose to smoke, it was a mistake, slowly puffin’ my life away, but now that I do it, gotta say, the price you pay isn’t nearly as worth having fun but staying pure, as death always comes to the ones with plans, sure as you can withstand circumstances, control your life, tread on the tracks of the path we know as righteous, life is just as hard as you’d make it to be, and trouble doesn’t last long, you could take it from me, because I peeped the outcome at the earliest stage, the burnin’ rage, turn a page from the surliest phase, and yes I did avoid the venom but still wasn’t a phenom, it took a minute to get to the point I’m living, like the rose, that sprouted from the concrete, the struggle had painted a picture, only some see, held up the hustle until it made my palms bleed, still stuck in a habit, that only makes my lungs scream