Real Men Tour

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As of lately
I've started recognizing my blessings
Instead of waiting on shooting stars
Because I've never seen one that's loud enough for blind kids
I've stopped searching for four leaf clovers
Because where's the luck for the kids who can't count passed 1
Too many people aren't batting an eye when they hear
The statistic of one
Point two million students dropping out of high school every year
The correlation is incarceration
There are too many youth
Whose bad grades are starting to look like alliteration
I'm from a nation
Where illiteration is painted on poor faces
Because of poor placement of educators
The teachers who really care can't afford to really make it
I mean
The government says they care but
Why
Do politicians get more paper
Than the teachers that shape us
Why
Is it so hard for teachers to get raises
When they have a hand in raising us
Sacrificing their youth for you
Until their hands look like raisins it's
Ridiculous
That the curriculum
Only gets you to graduation
Bullying is taught as a second language
Self-hate is served for breakfast
Peer pressure is served for lunch but
Mentorship, creative arts, and after school programs mixed with the budget
Something just won't fit
Meanwhile
Physical education is being taught by the streets
Sex education is being replaced by teen pregnancy
And there's no need for math class if the streets is teaching Trigger-nometry
By the age of 14
They know a room
That's 6 x 8 is not a square
Not a cube
It's called a cell
So who needs geometry
And there's no need to teach'em how to file taxes or a lease
Because they're supposed to end up just like their parents
But who said that welfare was a hereditary disease
That's why
I'm on a Real Men Tour to find real mentors
Because these girls and boys are the future and more
So before
You point your finger and shake your head at the news
Stop and think
What good are you if the youth never learn from you
Did you know
There's youth that know the weight of a fully loaded Glock
But don't know the weight of a GPA
They're used to their dreams
Being shot down
Welcome to the American Basketball Court system
The place where blocks get shot down
If you get too defensive you get locked down
All 12 refs
The get them from uptown
Told
That pickup games
Are just another place to pick up game
Raised
On the corner of
Hard Knocks and Tread Softly
If these kids are too soft then
They'll be picked on
Call it picnic season
They will pick you out and nix your next of kin
I know a boy
He rather write back from a cell
Than to ride back and catch hell
He was right back to fronting when he left
Just another soul the devil been polishing on his shelf
No college
He was ignoring intuition
Got caught up on unholy missions
He later became a blind man
Who ain't really blind
I mean
He spent his younger days falling behind
Chasing behinds now he's in binds
Behind bars
That means whether he opens
Or closes
His eye lids
He'll never see his kids
This means he'll never get to see his future
So what good is sight then
I know a girl
Whose father sang to her that age ain't nothing but a number
She became a runner
To run from
Men just like him
And all her problems
Straight to the recruiter
Now Jane
Became a GI
Joe decided to take control
Of a body that didn't belong to him
When she was alone
There's a couple
With a cupful of cutthroat tendencies
They have good intentions
But don't know what a healthy relationship really means
They're really mean
Their kids ain't eating
Fists are swinging
Leaving
Bleeding handprints on souls
Apologies
Are just cheap band aids on scars
So who will help them
Or their children
The real answer
Is probably no one at all
There's one more soul
He's struggling in class
He builds up enough courage to stand up and asks
"If Johnny has 5 friends and a little bit of hope
And If 4 of his friends take a little bit away
Then how much does he have left?"
Trick question
School shooters don't have friends
As of lately
I've started recognizing blessings
Instead of waiting on shooting stars
Because I've never seen one that's loud enough for blind kids
And I've stopped
Searching for four leaf clovers
Because where's the luck
For the kids who can't count passed
1
Too many people aren't batting an eye when they hear
The statistics

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