Derelict Children

To young girls with jailbird dads

I see you

Not knowing why the caged bird sings

Just knowing that
the bird is caged

Wing clipped
Ripped
Up
And zip locked away

Creating fragment
Inadequate
Shadows

Pushing you into grown men's arms

Who make promises to mend our
Broken

Contorted

Frail
Spineless
Bind less

Empty minded mines

Knowing "no" is an option
but not knowing no better

Word
To use

Tonight
body and soul shared with a no name stranger

After one too many shots of

You are beautiful and
I want you and
I need you and

And and and

It feels better without it and
Where's your daddy and
I'm your daddy and
How many times and
Have you felt alone and

Needing a father figure
But only getting a babysitter

Who's only reason to be here is because the court charges him by the
hour
minute
second

Takes only two seconds to become a caged bird again

But
loving the wind in his wings

The freedom of using the bathroom when
and where he pleases

Forgetting that he's shitting on his only seed


To young girls with fiend mothers

I see you

Your growling stomach is a cry not for food
but for love

Starved trying to remember what love taste like

And what your mom looks like
And what her voice sounds like
And what her touch feels like

Robbed of a childhood
Became a woman in 4th grade

Learning that, that crack life is worth more
than your A's

Unfamiliar penis'
Showing up more everyday

Hearing "I'll be right back"
But gone for 4 days

And then everybody wants to know why you're
18 in the 5th grade

Becoming more Y then X chromosome

Shooting shots of Testosterone
in your vaginal home

Baby you're only 16
leave them boys alone

It's addiction .. they say
But at 6th grade I shouldn't be addicted to not having a mom

She knows that it's wrong
but still chooses otherwise

So I'm not sorry for the way I feel
But I am sorry for this sorry excuse of a mother

I have

One too many lonely nights where my
nightmares are real and

My body is numb to the feel and
My mothers body is a walking corpse and
Thugs on the corner got her screwed and
Will tell you ya mother just left and

Tell her "hi" for me, whenever you see her
again

But it's already been a week so I'll probably forget by then


To young boys who lost a brother

I see you

Our fallen solider meeting a n***** who
learned Trig-onometry before he had a
chance to finish high school

Leaving behind fatherless kids who begin to
ask questions
That we dont want the answers too

And mothers?

What are we supposed to do?

Someone has stolen all my sunshine
And I don't know how my heart is still beating knowing the strings that kept it
together
have been cut

A young man who was just keeping his
family off the streets

And now in complete despair
They have to figure out how they're gonna
eat

This train is going 200mph with no
attention to stop

His heart stopped
before help arrived

And so I gotta keep my word
That I'm not gonna cry

The news is gonna make it seem like it
was a suicide
or just n***** killing n*****
this ain't no surprise

See this world is out to get our kids

Too many of them getting familiar with the
insides of their eyelids

And I don't know about you

But

I'm getting real tired

Of being at the shooting range

Only to get fired from the back

Getting used as target practice

Still trying to figure out how to get this

target birthmark off
My skin
Is not the dirt you walk on but the oil to your water

We will always separate black from white
And with that mentality
There are too many derelict children

who become adults
Having to suffer from the faults

of statistics.