Voices from the Shadows

Sam See the kid on a block with his shoes all torn.

Dreams in a notebook no one ever adorned. Daddy's gone ghost, his mom is

drowned in pills. He learn real young that love don't pay the bills.

No Christmas lights just flickers in his head. No bedtime stories, just sirens instead

the teachers gave up, they said he wouldn't go far. But now he

sprays bars from a pad from his heart. Every scary eyes is a badge

that he earned In a world that watched while his childhood burned. He ain't a

menace, he's just a voice unheard. He's another soul in the system