My Pen My Pad

Yeah My pen my pad Yeah Quiet chocolate girl In bobby socks Brown eyes A crayola box Yeah In a dark world You her bright spot Yeah Yeah Picture books and drawings Storytelling is talking Dear diary starts Inscription Details without a description To you I pen my secrets Cuz I know that you gon keep it Write something Erase it Still on you I left an impression Mama's gone Missing dad It's all I had Yeah My pen my pad Feeling bad It's my outlet Yeah Yeah My pen my pad Mama's gone Missing dad It's all I had Yeah My pen my pad Feeling bad It's my outlet Yeah Yeah Some words I can not speak spill em out thru the ink Jot and scribble Yeah As I think Note the thoughts In my mind Got blotches on my pages why Yeah Cuz my pen cries Short stories no tall tales Nonfiction Truth prevails These Emo's Like Post it notes At times it's hard To let em go I Find Hope In the antidote I turn to these bible quotes Read myself some scripture Then I grab my pencil Mama's gone Missing dad It's all I had Yeah My pen my pad Feeling bad It's my outlet Yeah Yeah My pen my pad Mama's gone Missing dad It's all I had Yeah My pen my pad Feeling bad It's my outlet Yeah Yeah Look thru my notebook From permanent mark to mechanical Unbind on ruled lines Rough drafts of my mental notes Unheard spoken words I sketch the hurt in free verse This sonnet They ain't heard it yet It's a new sound and I'm etching it Gel pen to suppress it This fountain just gon let it flow My ballpoint is onto something Ideas float on aqua notes You're significant Therapeutic God gave it And then he used it I'm awake Up late My ink's gotta date with paper mate Mama's gone Missing dad It's all I had Yeah My pen my pad Feeling bad It's my outlet Yeah Yeah My pen my pad Mama's gone Missing dad It's all I had Yeah My pen my pad Feeling bad It's my outlet Yeah Yeah My pen my pad Yeah Yeah Yeah My pen my pad Yeah Yeah Yeah It's all I had Yeah Yeah Yeah My pen my pad Yeah Yeah Yeah My pen my pad