Reconnecting

So easy to blow off all these self-proclaimed hustlers
trying to make it in the game
putting shame on my culture on account of development,
taking ideas from the poor and giving it to the rich
allowing the continuation of the power and the filth.


Tired of all these self-proclaimed hustlers
boastin' about their accomplishments;
they never knew humility or real innovation -
they stay talking and consuming - trying to impress me.


How are you gonna impress me?
I have my mother,
who birthed me under gunfire.
Took the reigns of her fam and helped them survive,
escaped death at Romero's funeral
and crossed three countries with a child?

She inhales problems
that make her asthmatic,
but exhales solutions for the betterment
of the masses.
She's magic.

Self-proclaimed Hustlers - that's funny,
Hustler
my mother's never pronounced that word
but she defines it.