She’s doing everything to mature her looks
Crazy to me it all seems
Cause in a little while she’ll be buying age-defying skin creams
It’s like she’s moving just a little too fast
And simultaneously thinking nothing about the past
Repeating her mother’s life with the same worries
Learning about the forefathers in history, but none could tell HERstory
Grew up in a single mother household
Mother so protective of danger like a lioness ready to pounce
Yet nurturing to her needs
Writing checks even when she knew they were gonna bounce
Only a mother AND no father
Living in her home
Forcing latch-key Keisha to spend hours alone
No one to address the questions over family dinners
She was being left in the dark
Being raised by MySpace, Hanna Montana, and 106 & Park
It started in the 6th grade
The wrong crew predicted her doom
Learned from the 8th grade girls to give hand jobs in the bathroom
And from there
Told her mom on Saturdays
She was with her friend Mary
And that Keisha and Mary hit the library
But, Nah! They went to the skating rink
And it was one of those ill-fated weekends
When “it” happened
That one thing
He told her he loved her
and she believed it
But she had no idea what real love was
because she hadn’t seen it.
Derrick can’t multiply but he sure can dance
Couldn’t tell you who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania
So we’ll give him another chance…
Who lives in the Pineapple under the sea?
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
And we laugh, but ain’t nothing funny.
she’s too cool for school.
And in the real world she’s a dummy.
But to Keisha
She’s ignored all the above
She put her all in him
Because she thought she’d found love
Momma told her about the birds
But never quite got the bees
And Derrick took advantage of it
He did her as he pleased
And it was especially easy to look over her
As she was down on her knees
Gotta her a fit and a prepaid cell phone
And now he going raw with no condom on
And this…
Continued for weeks
He’d see her in public
And never stop to speak
She had no idea that this was truly sex-based
Because she had found love
Even in the wrong place
He was much older
So he was playing relationship
Keisha got pregnant
And Derrick dipped
Keisha has no idea what life is really about
And now she hangs her head as her 9th grade belly pokes out
Living but not learning in seeing the pain of others
Teenage pregnancy in the black community.. She’s just another young mother
Living paycheck-to-paycheck
Forced into a world she will soon regret
And now she has to come up with Christmas
But all she has is public assistance.
3 kids 3 dad… way too much drama
And yet she thought it was a badge of honor
to become his baby mama
And she hates the point that’s she’s at now
And can’t quite understand how
Things became this way
Because all she sees is night even through the day
What happened to a village raising a child?
Well honestly now the tribal leaders are running wild.
And we can only question who should be put on trial.
But no one takes fault; it’s as if we’re all in a state of denial.
Children having children, not knowing the effects
That’s just the gateway to a pattern we often neglect
What about Keisha?
No comments:
Post a Comment