W.A.N.T.S. - Mr. J. Medeiros, Tara Ellis

Drove him to school just after the day that he flipped

Told him if any students asked for him

To say that he slipped

So many bruises past to him they faded in quick

They say the fatal wounds

The fact that he don’t play with his kids

And now I pray that he lives

Persuaded he gives into the lie

The bed you made it was his

Just say what it is cus basically the pain that you give

Is the pain that you received and you afraid to relive

And you can blame it on your past tenses

Tame it or have fences

But it don’t change the fact

You can’t escape your last sentence

When they have to reference evidence

You broke the surface skin

Laugh but after that they sending him to social surface Then where would you be

at bending at the kneecap

Pretending that he needed that slap

When well you see that

You doing to your son what your father did to you

He put you on the run

And it ain’t hard for you to do

The same

We are not the same

The distance in our lives

Bares the innocence I claim

Please know that we are not the same

The instant you arrived

With this infant and my name

Please know that

Met her at school forever he knew

He’d have to tell her the truth

In a letter he drew out every letter as proof

He wouldn’t let her be used

How his treasure of youth bowed and tethered abuse

Better to use now to measure every moment they shared

As a powerful atonement

How broken he bared

Can one hoping to share his life with another be

When you as beaten as the lover in me

Holy seeking for the Brother in three

Uncovered to see me

Before becoming a mother to be

See while the facts bruise I couldn’t figure it out

Why my back was being used for putting cigarettes out

And my laugh was subdued for it please him to cry

These are the reasons why for you I would leave it behind

I refuse to do to you what my father did to me

Only I choose who I am I pray to God that you will see the same

We are not the same

The distance in our lives

Bares the innocence I claim

Please know that we are not the same

The instant you arrived

With this infant and my name

Please know that