What’s the Price?

What’s the price? The price to make it in life. 

The price to live up to society’s expectations? 

Youthful desires pulling me down, 

“I’ll change when I grow up”, pillar to my actions, 

What’s the price to make it in life? What’s the price? 

What’s the price? The price to make it in the system? 

Opportunities and jobs are limited to the so called ‘connections’, 

What’s the price to get this job or that hustle?  

Mother looking up to me, daddy showing me his shoulder, 

What’s the price? The price for me to make her proud. 

What’s the price? The price to getting spiritual salvation, 

The Lord looking down on us,  

O Lord have mercy on us!  

Ignorance in whatever we do, where is the light?  

False excitements within worldly pleasures and desires, 

This car, that plane, that girl, what’s the price? 

Blinded by our own selfish imaginations, 

What’s the price? The price after judgement? 

What’s the price? The price to seeing this nice person, 

Talking stage brief as time itself, 

What’s the price of locking the door behind us, 

Fake promises and sweet nothings uttered, 

Just to come in the pink walls and seek longer hours, 

What’s the price for this heated up connection? 

Fresh bread at first, once toasted, where’s the appetite gone?  

What’s the price? The price to being called a parent? 

Kingston