DEFENDER'S RAP

• Have you ever felt let down, pushed aside, or unloved?
• Ever felt used, abused, and sucker-punched in the gut?
• Ever feel love for someone then end up stunned and crushed?
• When all this stuff becomes never-ending you go numb
• When you can no longer find a reason to get the fuck up
• When you've already been down in the dumps and that certain rejection gives you that extra nudge
• Of promising yourself all the things you've overcome,
• Start falling back into old patterns, succumbed to laughter when you cut
• Sadder, you don't wanna give up but you don't have anything else to go with
• Hopeless, dead inside showin' no one but your soul that the coffin's open
• The contents of your head cave in, holdin' weight – to negative emotions
• Like what's the point, you've got no other choice but to call it a day
• Exhausted, you already fought to avoid becoming a fallen angel,
• Ya bawl unstable, puttin' out all stops but those efforts halt stopped in their place
• There's no obstacle greater than when despondency reigns
• Smiles cropped onto the face, you want it erased, vice versa – your toxic escape
• You feel alone on the road you're goin' but you have to know that we all can relate
• I want you to know you matter, there's always an answer to whatever's causing you pain
• Forget envisionin' an early tombstone, new growth is ahead of you so seek it out,
• You'll be relieved and proud to know there's so much more potential to be met between the dash
• You'll see whatever weather, you're a better trekker of endeavors than when this adversity began
• Keep intact whatever reason you have, to wake up and fight, no matter if you're feeling bad
• Even if that means digging for pennies, you're worth plenty, and many will agree with that
• What the future holds is up to you, don't let the past define you
• 'Cause if you're reading this now, you survived a storm that was already deemed to pass.