Black Poetry : Ya'll don't know me.......now you know

krazelyricks

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Do you know me?
Be quite honest....tell me....do you know me?
Do you see me as being me?
And do you truly understand who I be?
NAW.......ya'll don't know me

Do you see me as a gurl turnin' into a woman?
Do you see the hurt in my eyez from cryin about sumthin'?
Did you understand why way back I used to be gunnin'?
Well, if you don't know then about me you know nothin'

Ya'll don't know, how my mind got weak
How I cried so hard my tears were up to their peak
How I was out gunin just to stay in style with shoes on my feet
And how they laughed at me because my hair was nappy
How I was made fun of because I didn't know my pappy

Ya'll don't know, how my mama was off for weeks
How sometimes I came home with nothin to eat
How everytime I wished I had someone home with me I’d walk in with no one to greet
How to keep to pain off of me I went around beating up he or she
How I was a gansta for mine and I was proud to be a "G"
And ya'll don't know how if anything came up I was ready
Ya'll don't know me

Ya'll don't know, how everytime I cried I wanted somebody to stand with me
To shield my tears from my shoulders and to understand me
I didn't have a mother there half the time to guide me
And my popz who ever he was, was no where to be found by me

Ya'll don't know tha pain I had in my stomach everytime I had to sell to my own cousin
The drugs and needles that I called poison
And everytime she would come to me I was faced with the same decision
Should I or should I not face the transition
But I had to... I was goin' to be the toughest in my division
Going to different levels to be the baddest for any reason

Ya'll don't know how at 12 years old I had a old lady I robbed
Ya'll don't know how while that lady was screaming I sobbed
I was crazy fo sho' but I had never held a gun....that was not my job
But I had to do it or I was going to be early meeting God

Ya'll don't know how I was a bomb waiting to burst
Never shot nobody but I was the one in fear of being in the back of a hurst
Robbed apartment just across tha hall but it was rehearsed
And if I messed up I wouldn't be confused
Because I know what was next the shot to my death or my head bruised

Ya'll don't know how many of my partners I lost
Fearin' for my life felt like it was going to be the cost
Gettin' what you want but tellin lies that’s false
Beating up rival gangs to show who was tha boss
High blood pressure everytime I got out my sleep couldn't feel my pulse
Ladies you ever had a baby or cramps this is worst

Ya'll don't know how I walked tha block every night to return with nothing of my own
Got tha cash but had no hoouse or nothin to be known
Man, I was out thuggin' and lookin like a clown
Thinkin hard but had nothin profound
Tryin' to find myself but still yet to be found
I was just like a drunk waiting for the next round
Or in my case the next stage to going down

Ya'll don't know how I was in the hospital for dayz
Thought I was sick but just having a nervous break down about my dismays
Doctor tellin me I'm okay but still I'm throwing up and hot in different ways
Sweat pourin from my body but they tellin me it effects people in different ways
I was tired but still I had a long *** way

Ya'll don't know how every day I was hit on by different boyz
Feelin' on my booty and playin with me like baby toyz
How I had to fight to get away in different wayz and ployz
How I had to curse folks out about my body and tell them about my joyz
I was bad as hell but giving away my body was and still is something I can't do

Ya'll don't know how my baby cuzin was raped, molested, and sexed
But five different people, so young didn't even know how to kiss
How when she cried I cried and asked the lord to get me away from this hex
But I couldn't...not yet......I had in my mind to give the crack heads their next fix

Ya'll don't know how I knew I was young, gifted, and talented
But just was to be like everyone else and try to reck it
Told my momz I was determined but never meant it
Never around tha house I never around to be beckoned

Ya'll don't know how when my mother was saved I still wasn't
How I was listenin and givin poison
How I was playin with mindz and
Ya'll don't know

Ya'll don't know how I was out there until my first love got shout
Got scared for sure and got back on the right route
Ya'll don't know how I got beat out the gang and how much I pouted
Ya'll really don't know

Ya'll don't know how I left all that behind
To find a life of good and that is what I'm still strugglin' to find
I'm young fo sho' so I still got a long time to get in line
But ya'll don't know how much I struggle and still seem behind

Ya'll don't know where coming from and how I ****ed up
I was a mess up until I recently met a wise person that told me to look up
That person that came in my life and for me took up
Made me see I'm not such a **** up

Ya'll don't know the trouble in I feel
Ya'll don't know how everything I say is real
Ya'll don't know how I struggle to pay the light bill
Ya'll don't know .......
Ya'll don't know.......
Ya'll don't know .........now you know
 

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