Life In the Streets

Gun shots rang out but no one hears. A life comes to an end but no one fears. A casual habit now a sin that in prisons the soul. Another life settling for less than their predestined goal. How can a child once filled with love grow into a person filled with so much hate? Taking as one pleases because earning it means to wait. By not having someone of worth to follow darkness fills the mind Until greed, lust, and violence are the only things found to occupy their time. Even when brick walls and locked doors to cells is all the eyes see The mind still wanders back to life in the streets. Where a gun and a cold heart is all that is left of your life And the only things for which you are remembered is struggle and strife.