Our Life Today Poem by Witch Baby

We walk
Eyes wary of Predators
That stalk our streets

We admire
The newest tagging
On classroom walls

The teachers drone on
Most of us wonder why we're even here
When life is more exciting as the trigger of a gun

'They' are there in the hallways
Tensed and ready to spring
At the first hint of weakness

Girls walk, open for business
Hoping his touch
Will mean more in the morning

My father and his father before him
Has stumbled upon the path I'm on now
Will I let my children do the same?

Will we ever make it out?
Or will this 'Hood'
Forever be our life today