Me against the World

As I walked through 

the shadow 

of the valley of death

I watched the condensation

 of your exhaled breath

escape from a 

crack in the window 

of your car

a single star, 

lit up the heavy sky 

I could have walked on by

but I didn't. 

I lurked. I looked
I cursed. I mistook 

you someone else
I mistook you for me-
you know

it was as though 

I was watching my 

younger self
I stood there

impelled-

I needed to dispel

any association

any notion- 

of kinship

of similarity

when in reality, 

we couldn't be 

one and the same-

It's just me against the world

I heard you rap 

along to Tupac

alone in the dark- 

the stark

reality of life;

it's rife- 

the politics of pain, 

troubles remain

they makes up life.

You looked up then and said- 

ain't no one care, if I be alive or dead

I got nothing to lose. He moves

me- Tupac. 

He knew the truth- the truth be 

I lack half the tools 

I need to be a man

I ain't got no plan 

I don't give a damn

about nothing.
I am nothing.

But everyday still, 

I rise,

still I rise- 

still Demise

watches me from the horizon...