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Saturday Morning stress

"Are you ready kids .... I can't hear you"

how my Saturday mornings started faithfully

that show and a bowl Of cereal

got me through plenty of times from

school stress

before I had to dress myself for school stress

before I had that 9:30 AM math test school stress

Now I miss that school stress

Now it's can I pay my bills stress

Do I have the will to succeed stress

Do I believe stress

I miss my childhood stress

I miss rushing to get home to catch the land before times stress

now I wonder will I get caught on this land as if it's illegal to be brown-skinned,

Some would say it is

I've got the plight of a black man stained on my flesh

Every day we got to fight against low pay, and a war waged on us by the government

Institutionalized racism at our necks

We can't rest like the rest because rest is for the weary and we are already as weary as can be fending off so many enemies we are swinging blindly in the dark 

We don't care who are hits connect with as long as someone else feels our stresses 

Even if we do damage to ourselves because we get a little reckless 

We'd rather 10/10 it be us vs us than us vs U.S 

I miss the school kid stressors

I could be ignorant to the world around and all quiet all the noise and fuss 

What a world we in now where you better be a warrior of social justice or who knows what could be left of us