The Odyssey of the Block

I was loyal to the block

but in the end it wasn't loyal to me.

I die today alone in a dark place on the block,

trying to mask life’s pain and just got caught up.

My screams on the block for help went unnoticed and drowned out by so many other screams from broken bodies and lost souls, people like myself suffering from the same pain like me.

So many people have succumbed to the disease of hopelessness on the block

and have fallen to the same fate like myself.

Just another Black faceless invisible face,

that got swallowed up by the block.

The hustle bustle, and the band plays on with the same seductive song,

luring other victims like me and trapping you in its web of deceit.

Say a prayer for me, and all the people who have fallen victim to the block,

we wasn't bad people we just got caught up and lost our way along our life journey.