For Black Girls Who Considered Being Dropouts When Education Wasnt Enough

Situation #1 Having it hard your whole life didn’t know if u were gone last one Sleepless night Life Deceit Your dads gone away Your mothers doing her best Tryna survive life’s everlasting test U say u cant take it Its 2 hard Ur giving up 2 easy Everything isn’t always gonna b ur way So u decide 2 dropout of high school And try 2 do your own thing Pull your own strings But we all know the REAL reason y u Dropping out Cuz that boy in geometry class studied Your biology and flipped your purity inside out And now your knocked up And confused Clueless Don’t know what 2 do Now wishing If only u wud have Listened 2 those things mama used 2 say Hm, at 16 u just threw your life away Now your going out of your mind All the answers to your questions u need 2 find……….. Lets move on to lemon lime She’s so bright and stands out all The time I mean she’s so fine All the guys have tasted her forbidden fruit Yup she’s a tough cookie Like mark from reading rainbow But in roots But Mrs. Lemon lime shud slow down sometime Try telling her that and see does she answer that Ha naw all she does is swish her hips and flip her hair back Lemon lime thought she was dah queen So did dah guys Cuz,well u know what I mean Suddenly lemon lime started to rot Her parade went down She started aching nonstop[ Something was wrong She wasn’t blind She just didn’t wanna see All these guys that called her queen Well one of them gave her HIV Wow now what is this high school cheerleader gnna do Idk But there’s a moral to both of these stories Don’t b so easy and anxious to give up your glory This poem is for black girls who Continue 2 Follow the educational rhythms in their own drums