Floodgates Poem by Patrick Maness

I'll flood this world

leaving no part untouched

Ravaging these shore lines like Katrina

Ripping it up like Greens Burge



If I open these floodgates

I'll come at you like a wall street colapse

Undermining everything you thought you knew



If I open these Floodgates

I'll dissapper

I'll melt away like iron in a forge

Leaving behind nothing more than a few scraps of paper



If i open these Floodgates

My blood will burn as if razors plussed through my veins

My eyes will glaze over and be blood shot



If I open these Floodgates



It will be the end of me



See where I grew up you didn't cry

It was weakness the worst of its kind

It meant you could be touched



Could Be Beat



So things like Strighten up

wipe them tears away

Don't be crying

Real men don't cry

were drilled into my mind



So If I open these Floodgates

It will be for years of sinlence

Watching friends and family die from everyday violence



See If I open these Floodgates

I'll reverse everything i was taught as a child

So why not



Why not open these Floodgates

The reason i hold everything back

Is because I still feel like I'm under attack

Half Drempt Delusions wake me in cold sweat



If I open these floodgates

I would Drown the world

To bad I can't



See i came out of the ghetto

Determined not to let it drag me down

Northeast and DogPatch were everyday Occurances



Bullet holes in the walls were the tweakers busted in

Shot streets can bring you to an early end

Blazing J's late at night to kill the pain



The pain of holding these Floodgates shut

So i broke the Handle

And threw it into the sea

To stop myself from opening these floodgates