Inherited Scars
Fresh Prince
the luster of the stars in my daughter's eyes i credit to her mother
swimming in the universe of her womb my little girl shot for the moon
her milk chocolate tone is found in the way of the same name
i prayed that though she came from me she wouldn't share the same pain
nostalgia is raised as i daydream about celestial works
and I remember my own belly button window as I fall asleep
viewing the world from my mother, teeming with potential
but as i was born my mental state became stagnated
the seams of dreams were blanketed by the fabric of reality
I developed thick skin from the rich sin force fed to me as a youth
grew around groups of niggas' whose only concern was fast paper
so race was blind in crime, a hard truth, swallowed with no chaser
i ask myself why i evolved around the survival of the heartless
for the dead cannot die with no soul to depart with
i was my mother's soular power, a second son to her galaxy
but the tragedy of a burn out snuffed the flame of her oldest
and the coldest flames reigned in my heart, shredding the tissue
that my mother used to catch her tears as her son was given to the Earth
and as this tear bore in my heart, the pain scarred my psyche
i lost my innocence raped by fear of the enigma known as reality
life went on though i wore war stories of gore's glory on my sleeve
i was perceived as a dreamer because sleep alone welcomed my screams
once road a chariot of dreams now tangled in the lariat of fiends
trying to find the silver lining of a dark cloud eclipsed my destiny
death severed my ties with the world, until i tried to rise to a girl
flames of passion jumped from the sun due to gravitational pull
and i fertilized the universe of this woman who refused to see me slumber
and the wonder of reality again drapes me as i awake from the memories
to the warm and luminous smile of my child and i gaze amazed
looking in her eyes whom for their beauty i credit the stars
as i cry inside knowing that my credit to her world is inherited scars
1luv.
Dedicated to my daughter Gabriella E. Dobbins
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