A Million Miles an Hour Pt. 1

I promise I’m going to reach new heights,

Breaking barriers to live a new life

No need to right my wrongs

But a need for me to do right

I feel like,

My past seems like it took my

Freedom, I’m reminiscing

On the days I was surrounded by people

That I miss and never got to say good-bye

We all took different paths

Adding up dollars, but it seems we took a different class

Because being in the streets and being successful

Made it hard for me to do the math

I’m just trying to move on past

Attachments to this man that I’m

Familiar with,

But I’m still in his skin

I guess I’m stuck with em.

I wake up and see my body transforming

Shedding old skin

People around me are starting to notice it.

I’m focused…and

My eyes have been set on the sky

Just sometimes we don’t remember

Who came along for the ride

Just trying to live.

Making plans, I continue to move

Exploring places that I’ve never been to.

Trying to change from the things I’ve been thru

To the things I live thru.

I pray to God every night

And I know he’s at work

Feeling discouraged when I can’t get a word

A few weeks ago the liquor had me speak out of turn

I went off on em

Thinking what’s the point of praying

If I feel like I can’t even talk to em

My boys bring me back to a place

It turns my mind back

Wishing I could relive old memories

And get the time back.

Went from Hennessy bottles

To, now, bottles on different wine racks

I’m proud to see the men we’ve become

One of one, it’s hard to find that.

Ya remind me of my strength,

And where I come from.

Not the geographical place,

But the cloth that we’re cut from.

Learning to keep my thoughts to myself,

And not to say a thing.

Observing and not reacting

To me, is everything.

Learning how to control my emotions

in pursuit of the better things.

I can’t condemn you for things that you do,

I’m just a better me…

TBC.