Mr. Competitive
who am i... willie stallworth,
but who is beneath,
a money makin hustlah,
or a common well known thief,
try a black male trying to do somethin wit his life,
focusing on his career and think he's found a wife,
born in the ghetto and raised in the hood,
everything promised to me wasn't good,
no father so ma uncle played the father role,
he did a good job but died when i was 5 years old,
raised by a mom who did it on her own,
kept me by her side when i felt alone,
now im almost a grown man juss 2 more years to go,
im gonna take care of ma momma more than she will ever know,
why i wrote this poem cuz they say im one of a kind,
really im juss a young talented brothah whose speakin ma mind.
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Submitted on September 06, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 678 |
Words | 145 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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