This Is Now
By Parizo Van Thulare
Now you realize life after matric is not child's play
Now you realize nobody chose to stay
Now you see the reasons beyond the grinding
Being independent is not as easy as you thought
Bieng a tangent is not as easy as you were taught
Here we do practicals
No theory is of existence
When the genius dance above the law
We are the first suspects
When Romeo breaks Juliet
We are the first to be given names
It's a race of mankind versus patience
A war between money and love
A match between fame and success
Only few get to choose
The majority get to loose
What you have been told then
Becomes addition to points of Cardinal
That one which we poke
When there is still hope
The one that we poke
When we become broke
Wishing time was an R line
So we change gears and it displays reverse lights
So we all jump in and go back to life
Back when we knew nothing about worries
When we were just babies in napkins
Dreams become reality in television
In real life they don't exist
Welcome to my world
Here we fight only for survival
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