Your a star

Intro

They tried to bury us

Didn't know we were seeds

Let me show you how we grow

Verse 1

I was eight years old when I first heard gunshots echo

Ten when I realized my block was a war zone, let go

Of innocence quick, learned to duck before I learned algebra

Mama said "baby, write it down" when the pain would capture ya

So I filled notebooks with everything I couldn't say out loud

Turned my trauma into verses, made my ancestors proud

See, the hood don't give you therapy, it give you survival tactics

We learn to smile through the hurt, call it automatic

But I'm done with that, I'm unpacking every scar

Every moment that I thought would break me, here we are

Still breathing, still believing there's a way out this

Turning all my darkest days into a way to speak about this

Chorus

We turn pain into poetry, that's the alchemy

Childhood wounds into wisdom, that's the strategy

Community held us down when the world wouldn't

Emotional healing ain't easy, but we know we should

This for everybody still fighting their demons

Still searching for a reason, still searching for meaning

Verse 2

Violence ain't always physical, sometimes it's what you witness

Your homeboy's funeral at fifteen, that's a sickness

That lives in your chest, manifests in how you move

PTSD from the streets, but we ain't got nothing to prove

Except that we're human, that we hurt, that we bleed

That we deserve to heal, that we deserve to be freed

From the cycles that raised us, the patterns we repeat

I'm breaking generational curses with every single beat

My father never told me that he loved me, so I say it

To every young brother I meet, I display it

The love we never got, we can give to each other

That's how we heal the community, sister to brother

Chorus

We turn pain into poetry, that's the alchemy

Childhood wounds into wisdom, that's the strategy

Community held us down when the world wouldn't

Emotional healing ain't easy, but we know we should

This for everybody still fighting their demons

Still searching for a reason, still searching for meaning

Bridge

I write because silence almost killed me

I speak because my people need to hear

That it's okay to not be okay

That healing is a journey, not a destination

We've been strong for too long

Now it's time to be honest

Verse 3

So here's my testimony for the ones who made it through

For the kids who grew up fast, had to learn what adults do

We're not broken, we're survivors with stories to tell

And every word we speak is casting out a spell

Against the darkness that tried to consume us whole

We're reclaiming our narrative, taking back control

This poetry is medicine, these verses are the cure

For everyone who thought they couldn't endure

One more day, one more night, one more fight

But you did, and you're here, and that's your right

To heal, to feel, to be exactly who you are

You turned your pain into power, now you're a star

Outro

Keep writing

Keep speaking

Keep healing

This is how we survive

This is how we thrive

One truth at a time