Live Yours

We all crave to be on top instead of below or on the side which we deem as a consequence but every topping is still a side, like condiments we can't keep measuring our lives to someone else's accomplishments the standard is you, besides whose to say in your life those things would be considered accomplishments take pride in your individuality, don't flock to a common sense because if you never agree with the consensus and yet you still put up, those are hard blows to your confidence we all have our own paths and our own struggles so why would you base your life on the model of someone else while still, being plagued by your own troubles see, there's one Russell...even though there's more than one Russell when leaves die, they rustle when feathers don't flock together, they ruffle when life puts you in a corner, you rumble when I say Young Russ, that's us!-Young in Spirit, Resilient Under Stressful Situations-that's not just Russell But I seek to Rise Under Soulful Soil Eternally Living Liberated That's Russell, not anyone else that I view at a distance see, there's more than one Russell, the next one may stand for something completely different so if we have the same name, then what makes the difference? experience...is the only real description what I'm saying is, no one else's experiences can make you, and your name doesn't make you but you make your name and create the destination to where each experience may take you we all may have a different God that we pray to but prayer in all religions still wield the same prelude looking for an answer, looking for some help looking in the mirror not reflecting but looking for yourself looking for forgiveness or looking for some stealth looking for attention, and looking for some wealth looking for some love, but you can't love yourself so you pray for others more because you place Your value in everyone else but you think what you being is unique, you real huh that's why you celebrate the reason why you or your homies can get killed huh you got the formula, you grown beyond that enfamil huh you scared to be yourself, your hood ain't just a family, its ya shield huh you probably still get offended when you hear something real huh if it don't match with how you view your lies and how you feel huh you acting like you don't feel huh you still sticking to the same code that made him squeal and him take a deal huh acting as if you was just clapping to get a meal and pay ya bills huh get a grill, you think you concealed so you conceal huh but those straps became embodiments of how you really feel huh lost and lonely, scared and only living for the appeal so you pop a pill squeeze the peel then peel huh you admire athletes so you run the streets like its the field huh even Kaepernick had to lift the curtain on what was real, so he kneeled, you'd die before you'd take a knee, and that's why these cops is upping they kills huh you say you don't shit where you eat, but what you call home is the kill zone, but you harder than steel huh? you stand as a man a part, but you been following ever since you joined say you following your heart, but you're led by a corrupted mind and your groin I know you loyal, crazy and insane so you might get right back out and do the same damn thing then wonder why, you thought you got smarter but nothing has changed in the end, you can't put it on anyone else, following suit instead of experiencing your own lane damn, aint that a shame all that idolizing and only yourself to blame