Damn, they were right...
Man, as i get ready 2 leave in august...i think of all the lil bits of advice and lil things people have told me ova the past 4 years...and one of them was at my H.S. freshman orientation, they said that only a fraction of us would be here for out senior year...that some of us would drop out, get pregnant or get sumone else pregnant, get caught up in drugs, or even be killed...and i remember sittin there thinkin, they're B.S.ing...they're jus tryin 2 scare us into walkin tha straight n' narrow...since then it seems as though day afta day, that B.S. that i thought they were talking was becoming more and more true...i was in denial for awhile, but i mean, as august 20th comes closer and closer, i see all of the people that got pregnant, or got sumbody else pregnant, got caught up in drugs, and all tha otha ish...i mean, i hope i don't sound like an afta school special or anything, but 2nite, thats jus really tweakin me, cats that i used 2 hoop wit at tha park, cats that i used 2 play baseball wit, dead, n all kinds of otha ish...ah well, im done tweakin for tha night, Holla.
Thank God you made it, Baby Boy. Always remember that conversation and be in the fraction that gets it done. Do your thang and walk tall and proud like a Black man should.
Mama Mo