Sittin here writin and wonerin why

I was sittin here writin a little poetry and I thought about something. There are a lot of people particularly African Americans who have talents and don't use them. Why is that? When it comes to poetry especially. There are no rules to poetry so why won't you do it???
Most of all why aren't we puttin ANY of our talents to use for something postitve????

I know what your saying cause i have 2 cousins that refuse to use their God givin talents. Its weird cause these 2 are father and son and they both have the same talents but within each of them the urge for doing the talent is strong. They both want to be cooks and artists and the father can sing real good and the son can make some hot beats on his beat machine but they rather chill on the block and pretend they have a struggle when they dont. Its just the mind frame. They dont see the protential because no one else pays attention to it. There not forced to use it.
Im Out
Shonda