Know Your Life
You gotta have it, if you can reach it, better grab it/
If you want it, you better wrap it and hold it tight/
Pass it down for generations if you know it's right/
Because it's all about your patience if you know your life/
Benjamin Franklin said it best.../
The only thing promised is death, so I hustle every breath/
It's not just for me, I'm a man, so it's for the future of my family/
I will expand this masterpiece before I'm deceased/
And it's not all about slanging that dope/
It's about survival so I'm surviving by any means/
Look at all the cops working prisons or hospitals/
Some don't want to but they do because they gotta eat/
If they don't then it's a problem because then it's the streets/
So I don't block or try to knock them because that's not me/
So do your thing, because if it was me, I'd do the same/
I'd rather that than locked in chains from fighting in here/
Just don't forget, it's not about your patience or your woman that you profiting/
It's about your profit that you pocketing/
It's about your family, your morals as a man/
From me to you, this the master plan/
Before you know someone else, you gotta know yourself/
Know what you can and can't do, you gotta know your wealth/
Don't put yourself in debt, handle your business/
Make a plan and do your best to better transition/
Without any plans, it's a sheer culture shock/
Make a family, bear them as witness/
Set a goal, work it out like fitness/
Long as you're living, profits will come with it/
You can't let nobody dictate your life, or how you pivot/
Handle the consequences and whatever come with it/
I'm not here to talk down on people and I don't judge/
I'm here to put you on game and spread the love/
It's limits and levels to living life, but just live it/
Because if you got a life, then your life is worth living/
It's people who are not here, that wish they were with us/
It's people who are here with us, that really want to get us/
Just don't worry about the next person, worry about yourself/
I was the most feared in prison, my reputation legendary/
There never will be another like me, I'm the only one/
I am not as I appear, there is something unseen/
You see, I hatched a plan during my time in four prisons/
I became a worldwide celebrity, music all over radios/
Poems that go against the grain, books on Amazon/
There is always a way to avoid the streets/
Know your life and your worth and stay strong/
Copyright © Michael Fulkerson | Year Posted 2025
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