Cut your teeth at first
On fruit and salad
Don't try begin with red meat
Take baby steps
Walk before you can run
Don't pretend or feign to know
You have any idea what other people think
Because you ain't them
Haven't lived or experienced their life
No 2 people are the same not even twins
And most of all
Don't waste a single second
Of your precious time
On anyone undeserving of your kindness
Not everyone and everything in life
Unfortunately can be saved or helped
Sadly it will be most probably be
Used against you and taken
As a sign of weakness
In order to see how much they can
Take and gain from someone like yourself
And might be one of the many complex
Reasons às to why
Their own no longer seem willing or deem
Them deserving of help or saving
BROTHER I HEARD YOUR WAR CRY
Yes my old friend I had your challenge
I couldn’t help but laugh it off….
You who just cut your teeth yesterday
You I saw soil your under gametes
You I saw take your first steps…
Now you have the guts…
To think you have wit enough
Wit to challenge us
Us schooled and skilled in the art
Us that breathe and live by wit…
Is but the greatest foolery if you my opinion seek
Brother I heard the challenge…
Cower not when the time comes
Let’s make our ancestors proud
I shall with my pen come
Let’s duel.
Cut your teeth on a sure thing and they’ll all fall out, too soon.
The gambler loses a lifetime, while the diligent will succeed.
The only certainty; the sure thing, in this life, si death.
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