baby I'm okay
she said why you gotta act so strange?
•••
where did those years go?
am I okay though?
just yesterday I was five,
eight,
thirteen
far away
I can't even remember them anymore
can't remember when
I was a kid
can I set sixteen on fire?
burn forty,
pitch a Molotov cocktail at sixty?
I want to get my childhood back
all the years I missed
cause nobody looks at me the same way anymore
nobody sees me anymore
for who I was
who I am
and now I can't even sit without feeling guilty
where am I?
carefree, backflipping?
gap-toothed with glasses?
yes, I'm a bit prettier
and a bit better off
but at what cost was that?
•••
no matter how far away the hood seems
we all still got hood dreams
