Needed Change

If we can’t look into darkness and shine a light,
Then what’s our purpose?
If we can’t help those in need,
Then what are we here for?
Have to stop worrying about just ourselves & more about our communities.

Violence tearing us apart, becoming gravely phenomenal.

Need to give more attention to our kids,

Creating an environment that’s educational.

Drugs are wilting our people.

Drop-out rates rising,
Teenage pregnancy rates increasing,

Single motherhood inflating,

STD statistics growing.

Gunfire in the streets…men in jail.

No lights to see…sitting on welfare.

No adults at home…children with no care.

Mother working hard…fatherhood won’t dare.

Change: The responsibility is on me, on you.

To push beyond the limit and go over the plateau.
We’re all links in this chain.
Things can’t remain the same.
Be of a sound, higher mind.

Not of a weak mind, but one that’ll revolutionize.

Must find the balance between substance and pizzazz.

Must focus on rising above it all, not the pomp and circumstance.

Improvement is needed in abundance.
Can no longer have a glimmer of reluctance.

So ask yourself:
If I can’t look into darkness and shine a light,
Then what’s my purpose?
If I can’t help those in need,

Then what am I here for?