Mother's Daughter

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

And there is a lot of you that I see in me

I crave a love so deep I fear i'll never be fulfilled

And so I fall in love every day so my spirit won't be killed

And like you, everything in life is a spectacle

But unlike you, life has taught me to be skeptical

I see what this world has done to those I love with melanin darker than mine

Where love is candid and hate is a crime

And how women fought for success

But take their dignity off with their dress

And your overbearing emotion is something I see in my self every day

But what drives you and what drives me just isn’t the same

You see the world in a scope and I see it for what it is

A beautiful world we are lucky that even exists

Because not far from us is the ugly truth

Where the sun shines harshly and where they are killing our youth

I am my mother’s daughter. I am unbalanced raw emotion

But I am kin to this land and it has my devotion