Mellisa Son

Melissa Yeah she was singing that night That's Melissa son Yes Wannn Loop Loop Loop Loop Waaannn ya heard me A day off work Wrote my pain in cursive Every letter looped in vengeance Turned my ink into a canvas Every stroke is independence Expressed that struggle like a martyr with a ledger I got ghosts up in my section Every name is etched in letters I spread graffiti in heaven Lost ones is in the texture I had no choice I had to grow I had to rise Took that pain that was unconscious The dark fleeing from the light belly of the beast Where the echoes of the past turn to sermons in the streets Where the halos never fit but handcuffs is like a fleece Product of a paradox Bible on a nightstand Devil's in a tarot box Mirror shows a man with the scars of a poet Trying to balance on the lines like a barcode frozen I've been weighing every move every step been a quotient So I split the pie different let the whole family know it This is strictly for the downtown 9th ward soldiers This is strictly for the 2 1 Put the block on my shoulders We got gangsters still alive They salute me even gumbo Bloodlines don't break Whodey they bleed Guess I've been spilling ink Stop using your past as a chain Instead use as a key The door Generational curses Go through them and open Find peace and then close them Because we all know I seen villains get murals Dealers get status Study the system You ain't really playing chess Because the king ain't protected if your pawns move the best Made a staircase out of ashes And I tiptoe I tiptoe Each verse built from the fragments of that Took a loss flipped the page Now my name in the brackets Thats Mellisa son I swear this shit is poetry The legacy Whispers spreading from the magnolia trees Blood on the pavement and winds Hums the memories Demons in the midst I peep games Some things do exist The energy vibes my aura What you gon with that My roots run deep in this curse soil Mississippi runnith thru Dot on his Muddy Waters You don't mind dying when you coming from that 9 shidd Get it how you live no matter circumstance of life Is it just me But ain't we all had to do wrong to get it right Haven't seen a perfect person but different shades of the light Turning floods into a fountain with fate as a mustard seed You look at the size but don't understand its potency My crown is a fleur de lis I search for what was lost The path I found and the treasure speaks Golden child Above average survivor He going to make it out I now understand why y'all different from me Sincerely A kid from the south Melissa Yeah she was singing that night That's Melissa son Yes