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I'ma Take


Ima take this time to face our fate

It is what it is and whatever it is are things that I can't change

We live in a life where sleepin at night don't let u get thru the strife

And if u sleep through the night without ya own demon to fight then u prolly won't ever b awake

Overworked thru the worse

Where the last come first

We live in a hell that

Feels like a locked cell

Livin a life where it's harder to lie

Maybe we jus caught in the demise of our minds

Where time is defined by how much our souls is confined

Trapped between walls where u question ur life

Seduced by the idea of being recluse Ideas obtuse by the life we construe

We're all caught in a trap where u jus continue to do u

Contemplative on my own thoughts

Tryin not to get distraught

Over what is n what's not. 

Independence portrayed

Emotionless displayed

Livin in a world so cold

Everyday pushin thru so bold

So my mind silently wanders,

Squandering my thoughts.

Why undermine ur brilliance and devalue ur thoughts?

Tryna fill the void

With useless noise?

Caught up in this city night, city life

I b away frm my city but still

Tryna do my city right

Why don’t u go far beyond what you kno?

Yu prolly jus afraid bc u dnt kno how far you can go

Why give EXCUSES for the fact that u ain't Tryna DO shit?

Are u willin to die for some shit that don’t give u life?

Use ya mind to focus away from the bogus

Until ya soul is sold & u aint even notice

6/28/2013

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Atlas Cortez

Hayward, CA. Philosopher, artist, mental nomad.

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