From handle bar rides - just playing outside,

Sharing blow pops, big sticks and pop rocks,

Hanging at all the hot spots and rap battles on the block,

All our homework sessions, and after school lessons

Playing video games, flying paper airplanes,

Staying up late, eating Philly cheese steaks

Slap boxing with friends, hanging out on the weekends,

Creeping out the windows and nobody knows,

Dipping and dodging and candy store robbing,

Just clowning and maxing, b-balling and dancing,

In funky fresh clothes, from braids to afros

In school track and field, cheerleading was ideal,

Having scholarship stacks, from breaking our backs

The sorority parties, drinking and being naughty,

From def on the mic cause we rock the crowd right,

Is how this came to be, the reason why we

The she became he the he became we

And for life became thee….

Fountain of glee that lives forever inside me.