Kaspa Richards - ****The Estate****

Looking thru my bedroom window I see,
A broken family rowing in the street,
A council estate mum she just can’t see,
That her teenage daughter just wants to be free.

Free to come and go as she please,
So she goes out and has sex with the first man she sees,
Comes back maybe pregnant definitely diseased,
Growing up so fast she never listened carefully,
Now she’s crying for her mum as if she was three.

Even with all the hassle her lil girl has caused,
She opens her arms and hugs her of course,
Tells her everything will be ok if she listens and doesn’t ignore,
What the doctors say coz there word is law.

The daughter listened and now she’s all well,
Relationship with her mum has improved as well,
There like sisters now there as close as hell,
Mum laughing and joking with her 15 yr old girl.

Thru all her struggles she lost out on her kidulthood,
She got her wish and now she’s in adulthood,
The life she has forced this woman to grow up,
Now her girl body has to play catch up.

So as I look out my window and see my estate,
Seeing the lives we lead the situations we create,
Living in a place where real shit happens each day,
This place made me who I am and forever ill stay.

Kaspa Richards

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