Paying the Debt

Yeah. I knew early on. At a young age,

I learned the world was cruel. A strung-out mother playin' us for fools.

She didn't have a plan, no love or garden. Pawning off her

kids to any stranger, discarded. She was gettin' laid,

playin' the victim role. While my siblings and I were losin' control.

Denied basic comforts, molested and beat by the protectors we were forced to meet.

We coped how we could, habits self-destructed. Handed a death sentence,

life unproductive. My sister showed the way, truancy and hate. So I ran,