In Due Time

From experience i'll tell you


There ain't no easy way out

Straight from the ghetto

I invented my route

Leaving all i knew behind

For a life unknown

Reaping different kinds of benefits

From the seeds i've sown

Faith, knowledge and trust

Could be important keys to succeed

But how does one learn to trust

When she's knocked down on her knees

Robbed of all but her inner dignity

She's learned the familiar feeling

Of greater insecurity

Pushing the broom across the floor, she must

To make a dollar to feed those kids

She don't have a bank trust

Seems so distant from reality to believe

My dreams are what my thoughts just couldn't conceive

That once upon a time, that girl was me

Harsh oh it was

No words spoken more true

I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you

This road was mad tough

There were so many times i've said

"Enough is enough!"

Please don't disect my life story

And call yourself - callin my bluff

Because when my wave reaches to you

Its gonna hit you rough

Left to her own devices

The girl was out of home by age nine

did what she had to do

Just to go to school and survive

Pushin anything, as long as she

Didn't have to push herself

Self respect was the only way

This girl had any wealth.

Kicked out of school

In her senior year

Made her wonder what the struggle

Was for, word is sincere

Not sure if there was another way

Out of this death wish

All she could do was dream

Of a life without this

"God shed light upon me and

Show me the way.

God, I wanna get out of this one day!

God help me now, I don't want to die a dealer..

God do something in my life to make

My dreams realer!

God let me look though the window

To see fresh grass and trees,

God I don't want to witness another

Necrosy!

Lord, my God, I beggeth you please!

Let me be somewhere that I can breathe!!"

To all of these prayers, my Lord opened doors

He asked me what all the commotion was for?

He said to me, Kah, what is it you want?

He said to put down the .., put down the blunt

He said live a life that was righteously so

As for some of my loved ones, I'd have to let go

Because they wouldn't change

Because of my pain,

Just look at how many times

They left me standin in the rain!

He asked was it worth going through again?

I said "No! How much longer can I sustain?"

To that my God had closed many doors

But for my children and I, He opened one more

He said its not much, to make what I can

That there was no time to put together a plan

Tis was time to put my dreams into full action

It was about time I found satisfaction

Rough times ahead, keep one goal in mind

I'm gonna reach my goals...

I promise me..

In due time.
 
 
Kahala Lei
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