nowhere to go but up

Bop Gone Sad

                  After Willie

Damn homie/in High school you was the man homie/what the fuck happened to you? –Curtis Jackson

In between your dreams

Life happens

So fast you couldn’t catch up

With fantasies of places

You would never visit even

If wishes was granted

Slanted eyes don’t let you see straight

Crooked as your confidence you let evaporate

Meditate on melting frozen

Chosen charisma consider future

With you broken sentences with bad intentions

Standing still in shadows

Arrows pointed directly at shaky temple

Meant to live glorious existence

Not dwell on all you missed

Used to swish now you throw up bricks

Destroying instead of building not so willing

Initiate and instigate brothers’ rapid demise

Spiraling down drain

Fist wrapped around gold chain

Suffocating blood to malnourished brain

Making you believe you have best perspective

When purpose walked out long time ago

Nowhere to circle in search of getting low

Bottom has been horizon for too long

Moonlight highlights descent at breakadawn

peace willie. enjoy exeter.

“You expect the spotlight to be as bright

As the last time you got on stage

But the page flipped

& you got left out the next chapter”

 – Word to everything I love, Willie Perdomo

All your references have been misquoted

Your historical realities have been distorted

Footnotes been found out as false

As your pain emphatically placed between parenthesis

You figured the reading wouldn’t start on time

Fronting to be fashionably late to your own feature

This presentation co sponsored

By doubting Thomas foundation

Your confident culture coalition

Advised by outsiders antagonizing your apathy

Imagined those bright lights to take to bigger cities

Still by the streetlights you haven’t traveled

Beyond the 4 block radius of your hood

Magnus opus magnified by your misfortunes

Misread your own palms           holding on

Instead of letting go       hip hop quotable

Vocal trapped local      waking up everyday in the hood

Just blinking                  you won’t go global

Journals been jogging                no looking back

Lyrics versus spirit on this mission

Make a quick pick                    so you can hit the Mega