It takes a village
to raise a child. It takes a child
to think even a village could do so perfectly.
So perfectly social media dials up the exceptional and dilutes the
just acceptable
Unjust and unacceptable a tragedy, it’s apathy
It takes a village to
raise a child.
Take a child and raze his village
e   r   a   s   e
That home from his
Mind, mind that you explain
Plain and simple
His simple life wasn’t
perfect. Twist his thoughts askew
His childhood seized from
view
Who knew
about the village that raised a child.
That child wasn’t a celebrity, that village didn’t
raise him like that,
the media doesn’t like that.
It takes a village to raise a child
But that child would raise a village
He couldn’t, but he would
He can’t, but he will.
Put a camera in his face
And in the face of this pressure around him
He’s under it
Overwhelmed
Tell him the world is watching
Watch his wonderment make waves
Watch him rise
He’ll take that village and raise it.
Some boy from some home will be raised by that boy from some phone
Somewhere, some village raised that child.
He’ll raze it, erase that upbringing from memory
To be like the child he sees on his phone
It takes a child, a childish one,
To go and try to raise a village.