Grew Up

Vincent “V” Pierce

I grew up 

Sugar milk drinking, corn beef hash eating, meatloaf loving  

Iceberg wearing, bb gun shooting 

Only thing that scared me was the mice 

I will run so fast look like I was skating on ice

In the heat of the night watching

Mama didn’t have it so it was paper food stamps she was collecting

Now I grew up 

Got tired of hearing mama ask the landlord for an extension

So it was illegal money I was getting

Dice rolling

Girl after girl not caring about a feeling 

Just worried about the money and drug dealing

That got to spending plenty of nights in a cage 

Started to build up a rage

Twenty three hours in a cell thought I was going to go insane

All I can hear was grandma saying

God will get you through anything so

On my knees I got and prayed

I grew up…