Product Of My Environment

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I've been searching for a better me

First before I find
The answer that is clearly in my face
I must address
The facts

I am the product
Of any parental figures in my life
I was always told
I have three options
A better life, dead, or in jail

Born into sin
My mother never married my father
Raised in hell
Hopping from place to place
Never staying long enough
To call a place home

All male figures in my life
High school drop outs
Sold drugs
In and out the streets

See. I. Am. A. Product.

I'LL NEVER BECOME WHAT I SAW

You'll never be able to write me off
As just another nigga
You'll never be able to look
Into my eyes
N' see where I grew up

I will not be them
I refuse

I've been searching for a better me
Flipping through my pages...
You'll never see
The darkness
That I see

You'll never
Be who I be
Because I am the product
Of my environment

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