Spoken Word Piece

The following is a piece I recently wrote for a spoken word event. It is a social commentary and reflection on myself and my surroundings. Enjoy! 

These days people watching sermons with the sound off 

Yelling preach but don't listen when he speaks 

I'm tired of all the hard talk including from me 

If you want more you gotta take it money ain't on the tree 

Neither is the reputation I want 

Or the chains imma flaunt 

Gotta go get it 

But I know for a fact that I am not question in it 

Nah no questioning it 

My potential is just beginning 

Knew I had it inside 

Discovered it while on that Lake shore drive 

I won't lie I had tears in my eye 

As Yeezy's graduation bumped in my ride 

Yeah graduation means a lot to me 

Now I graduated and I'm tryna take this game and make my own  monopoly 

But one day I'll be the Goat how could you not agree 

Constantly I got demons plotting on stopping me 

I be conflicted bout missing women who never cared 

Got friends who claim that they support but they never there

They always out with each other but I didn't get the message 

Think it was then that I finally had got the lesson 

Some are content with what they are and they just keep accepting 

But I been claiming I was more since before I was freshman 

I switch the we out with I 

Cause ain't no us 

When I think about what was 

All I see it broken trust 

And dudes playing black queens 

Due to uncontrolled lust 

Then move on from it heartless like you never wanted love

But love that was all you really wanted 

The kids with good skin and big muscles you had to flaunt it 

The kids who didn't have and kept quiet were who you taunted 

And for that karma will come 

And your soul may be haunted 

But imma move on keep pushing 

Tryna get my life right 

It's all about me gotta be selfish all my life right 

I mean y'all showed me I ain't belong y'all remember all those nights right 

For whom the knockout bell tolls I'll see you all at fight night