Lead or follow

Forgive or forget

Live like I’m hollow

I choose not to sweat

WE choose to let freedom ring

Fighting off this poverty

Flashing lights going off

Glare makes it hard to see

That everything we build is falling

Voices of ancestors calling

Actions committed appalling

We’re hauling ourselves off to death

Fires building advances fading

Fighting waters of truth and wading

In the tears of those who tried to make it

In the hopes that we would one day break it

This cycle of destruction we kill one another

I got mine now you get yours kind of cover

That separates daughters from mothers

And best friends from lovers these things hover

Over us

Empower us to hurt

We jump and fall too fast

Living like celebrities in spotlights that don’t last

Decorating ourselves like cakes

So why don’t we deserve to bake

To feel the heat of the disasters we create

Of all the horrible choices and decisions we make

But for people like me

Who want to forget the misery

We live with these choices never free

From repeating the destiny

That we were never supposed to have

But since we’re repeating history

It’s a Mystery that we don’t repeat the good

We copy the bondage, not paying homage

To those who made it possible for us to do anything.

We rebuild the ghettos in higher stilettos

Trying to get closer to the sun

We’re already burning here on earth.

Creating our own forms of hell

Until combined voices yell

LET FREEDOM RING.

LET ME BE FREE

LET ME LOVE ME

BEFORE I CAN LOVE ANYTHING.

Overcome by pregnant children

Too young to understand

Outdone by our own doings

Not following our own commands

Quick to give advice but slow take

Never easily bended but easy to break

We’re flawed by design

Made to be complicated

But trying to be something we’re not

Until one day we’re someone hated

By no one but ourselves

Its time for a change

“yes we can”

But never alone

We need a hand that we’re

Afraid to hold

Even though we’re bold

Bold enough to hold kilos

That could be the end of your life.

So Lead or follow

I’ll lead.

Forgive or forget

I’ll forgive.

And yet some people like me

Cant even speak

The real deal

Because the truth hurts.