Poem Ben Lou six feet deep

Ben Lou

01/05/15

HipHop and poetry

Slam poetry

Six feet deep

There is something everyone is afraid of,

no matter how thick your skin is,

how tough your mental is.

Death.

What if it’s all over just like the snap of the finger,

It’s so easy.

A drunk driver rams you with his truck,

A wearied heart stops working,

A regular physical shows you cancer.

That’s why it’s not death we are afraid of,

it’s progression.

You will be put six feet deep,

Tissues soaked in tears will mount up,

Your friends will miss your sly jokes,

Your mother will lose twenty pounds.

But guess what,

life goes on,

The tissues will disappear,

Your friends will find new laughs,

Your mother will slowly heal.

Time changes a lot of things but one,

you will still be six feet deep.

When you are six feet deep,

you miss things.

The gentle touch of your mother’s hand,

The rush of adrenaline before a game,

The nervousness you feel on a date.

When you are six feet deep,

you feel suffocated,

what do we feel today, the educated.

The world crashing in looking for answers,

I ain’t got any.

Tick Tock, the clock shoves you like waves in an ocean.

Other people lookin like dolphins,

I am holding onto a piece of wood trying to survive.

Progression takes over a little too fast for me,

I ain’t even had a chance to show what I got.

I already feel what it’s like to be shot.