i wish I was a kid

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I remember when I was just a kid
Asking questions like
Why is that lady crying? why is that man sleeping on the street? Why she have a mom and I don't? Why you cry?
I wish I was a kid again just wondering all these things
not actually knowing
I Wish I was Still a kid sing Ring Around the Rosies
Not knowing that when we all fall down
we don't always get back up
I wish I was just a kid again
I remember when I used to hate
Reading
but now I read to escape the reality that traps me
Traps me in this world full of hate, crime
They use to say black lives matter
then they was saying all lives matter
we was so foolish to believe
deep down they was saying my life matter and that's true
I agree my life matter I'm being selfish
but that's what they teach you you can't worry about everybody else you gotta worry about you cuz if you don't then who will
It's you against the world
I wish I was a kid still swinging on the swing in the playground looking at the skies wondering how high i can go
Till this day I'm still wondering how high I can go
till gravity brings me right back down again
I used to love clowns
they made me laugh but know not so much
clowns around here killing
scaring
turning a childhood memory into a nightmare
so laugh laugh
I wish I was a kid

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