Captured Innocence

Too young to have

thoughts of fatality and famine

The coronavirus is

nothing unfamiliar

Remember the Spanish flu?

Seeing a dead body lying in the

street is nothing unfamiliar

We’re in the ghetto, fam

Why should a child be so concerned

about whether they’re going to

live to see another day or not?

I go to the pool and swim away

the fears but even when I’m under

the water it finds its way

to swallow me alive

Don’t take me before my time

Don’t take me before my time

Don’t take me before my time

Aren’t I meant to share a glow

with a world in desperate need of one?

Aren’t I meant to rescue the same

children with the anxieties I possess?

Aren’t I meant to cease

the reincarnation cycle?

A soul that hasn’t released

enough of its karma find

itself trapped in a vortex

And every incarnate ended

with a premature tragedy

Miscarriage, child abuse

Rape, a victim of homicide

Terrified to death and had the

adrenochrome extracted from him

after being mutilated

I don’t want to return here again

I don’t want to return here again

I don’t want to return here again.