I say I'm a man They say I'm underage Does that make me a boy? What is it that make them men? So often I see greatness in expression They say its real but I say its talk without action I've learned to learn these things harder then others My life is filled with compassion for others I only fear that the reaction of others Will smother me and the things that I mother All the things these people have love for Not loving there own mothers or fathers So many fathers without children rather Most of these children are without fathers These men don't take care of they're flesh Only using the 24 hours God gave them for themselves So let my childhood pass me so I can show these men That I've found in the few real men around me They think of only my age and not of my brain Trying to relate their lives to that of my own Making my life out of experiences they've experienced This is the mistake they've made not knowing The things I know so many mistakes Tho, I've learned from the ones I've made These men aren't men through actions That's the fact that I know