Picture This!

Now , if you told me today, ‘There is no way!’

Picture this! Let me put on a play

In life the starter’s gun goes with a different sound

You search for a meaning, but ignore what you already found

It’s not easy, I don’t claim wisdom

If you have more fitting words – be ready to bring them

Message of my story? There is no reason to worry

Different places shape different faces, don't feel sorry

For me, as long we live we share one thing – being human

Melanin dyeing different, but the same goes through your lumen

Time of segregation led to time of fascination

Look at her and him – accompany me to my destination

Be attended by success

Make an attempt at life’s surplus

Live and love, fall in but don’t fall for anything

Having said that, now watch the drama they bring

If you don’t trust or believe me

Why waiting for the moment you finally see?

Hard work leaves no reason for boundaries

Quick cash is not enough to sustain families

Avoid felonies, behind bars the world is out of reach

Don’t be easily reached, it’s time for me to teach

Rather preach, have faith, be a painter’s model

Let the painter have a firm role so you don’t toddle

Let me come back to my first point

Life is hard, try to look at the other side of the coin

They say you can’t gain without pain, nothing in vain

Roll with me on this memory lane

So it can be a lesson for him but foremost

For those children who give the future a roast

Fronting, acting cool by neglecting education

Let’s talk about their area, parents facing legal separation

Where is the foundation, where is the previous painter?

With the wrong colours, faint hope only gets fainter

Streets, creeps on their knees raising thieves

Home became less of a home, homeless is easy to please

With likeminded people who lost their mind

Life is hard to find

Now , if you told me today, ‘There is no way out!’

Picture this! Let me say, ignorance is a bliss – you didn’t leave me in doubt.

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