Fading Away

Already a workaholic. Yet tired of starbucks, was ready for college.
Has the heaviest wallet. His wrists in ice & his butt in a chevy impala.
Family was solid, except paps was a widow...Or watever you call it.
Beyond educated, son graduated top of his class. Forever symbolic.

The boy grew up, having to steal cash out momma's purse.
Paps caught him diggin & bestowed regret apon his birth.
Kid was cold & needed clothes, its why he stole at first.
But turned into a sort of curse, how he couldnt stop. Reverse.
It caused a lot of hurt. Paps told em "momma's heart had burst".
Basically told the boy, he was the reason she left the earth.
Paps became a jerk, 12 years past & still would not convert.
After senior year they lost touch & the son moved off to work.

Flew past his degrees, like school was a thermometer & he was mercury.
Threw his bachelors in the trash & framed his masters like J. Dupri.
News came Paps pawned momma's ring. It was only worth a G.
Appalled & such, the boy questioned. It was her death anniversary.

Paps lived in a shelter now, nicknamed the Poverty Resort.
Son confronted him, asking why he ordered the divorce.
Paps made it a mockery of course & said awfully..."the morgue".
The son fled uptown to the building & read the autopsy report.
Never been shocked so much he mourned, fell knees to floor.
Discovered she was beat to core & left to bleed galore.
Went on to read, there was an argument the night before.
And realized shed been killed, cause she didnt love Paps no more.

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