GUN
by BENJI
Kids are running around today not knowing the definition of a firearm.
Posting pictures of the weapons, letting others know that their arm is ready to do harm.
In unfortunate neighborhoods, a familiar sound acts like a 10:30 alarm,
Letting all be known that the violence being done is ever growing like a farm.
Maybe it’s the role models they watch and listen to.
If good modeling was straight, they’d be as straight as a cashew.
Gucci Mane, Soulja Boy, Lil Wayne to name a few.
We’d hope that with their mouths something good would pass through…
Instead we hear,
“Aye fake n—-, I told you beware of the finga that pulls the trigga.”
BANG BANG. “Stinga”
And the process repeats.
Born. Grow up. Learn the evils that weren’t meant to be learned,
And do the things that aren’t meant to be done.
A weapon incorporating a metal tube from which bullets, shells, and other projectiles are propelled by explosive force, learn the definition.
And before you use it, learn something before you act with intuition.
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