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[aid] => mick
[title] => Be a kid as long as you can
[time] => 2007-07-29 07:05:38
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[bodytext] => My mama used to say be a kid as long as you can At the time I was too young to understand This life these adults live is crazy compared to being a kid Having to deal with finding a job that will make you enough money to pay your bills And find a spouse that yields Your interest, your goals, not to mention looks to kill Unknowingly that there was a whole world, besides what you see everyday Unknowingly that people are judged by their skin And there is no exact explanation of how your existence began Rarely do those child hood dreams come true And that few children get a sneak preview of this harsh world these adults face Some got careers and great finances, but lack the relationship of their partner While others have to do inhumane things just to put food on their tables Some work dreadful nine to fives While others do back breaking labor for crumbs is how they provide But we want to be grown so bad Just cuz you can vote or buy cigarettes or liquor don’t make yo grown If that’s the case you can be grown and still live at home Grown is being totally independent and progressing with the vision of building a family Grown is being the oldest sibling and running a household And those that trade in freeze tag for a freezer bag Having to be head of their home Providing for their siblings while giving up their child hood But you rush to be grown Slow down Grown is walking out of your parents door and leaving everything they paid for Grown is finding a career after college not a job Grown is choosing your own destiny Finding your niche in life and hoping that it make you enough money to live Learning all the earths history and wisdom And being who you are and establishing your own personality No more recesses and play time Now I donate hours to studying And building a future that I hope will satisfy this roller coaster economy A world where there’s no make believe or reality TV shows influence these closed minds to stay closed And commercials show people how to feel insecure Remember back when everything was so innocent and so pure One decision can instantly make your poor People hate one another enough to take their given right Money shapes our goals and dreams You can get masters and not have plan Then its worth less than paper its printed on Relationships don’t last do to nature’s hormones That makes you prone to a phat ass That eventually destroys a happy home So be a kid as long as you can Young Having my mind set on two ways and pagers instead Oh ways to turn my pages We as young people are rushing to get old Forgetting that it’s all down hill sparrow after the big 2-0 Trying to rush and be grown and sexy Trying to seem that you’re superior to your peers Giving this fallacy that we’re more mature than our counterparts or friends Trying to go from clubs to cabarets Wearing gyms shoes to wearing grandpa slippers Everybody wants to be old Until they get them wrinkles and corns on toes That hair line starts to recede like the shoreline And the top well that’s divided into smaller islands Them aging spots are aged Contacts are now replaced with cataracts Them 38D’s that were sexy Now hang to two inches from the knobby knees So please, Don’t rush, be a kid as long as you can While you laughed at those who were in the classroom while you walked the halls You were so used to being fast Now period Your ass needs a minutetopause (menopause) But you rushed to get grown Trying to stay with the hottest trend now a mid life crisis has began Be a kid as long a s you can Trying to use fake ids so catz can think you older than she When you playing right into his trap because pedophiles is his act Adolescents smoking and drinking Good, cuz now after college no competitors for job seeking Stopping their brain cells where they excel Trying to be more mature not understanding it’s a state of mind And not some clothes you put on That you didn’t design We all are just dying to be on oxygen tanks And bengay is your new stench Strapping on some depends Doing some routine is how your day ends So my concept be a kid at heart But be a kid as long as you can [comments] => 4 [counter] => 157 [topic] => 43 [informant] => jayced [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 8 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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