My Biggest Mistake.

Getting hooled up was MY biggest mistake.
How could I have known my life was at stake?
I was so young gang-banging at nine,
and that's how it starts; "this story of mine".

Once you're involved life's never the same
taking your chances for money and fame.
Not much the fame but more for the power.
living like this you live by the hour.

Gunshots and sirens ring out through the night.
You've taken a life and know it's not right.
Death or a prison is all that your given;
living this lifestyle that isn't worth livin'.

If I would have known where I'd be today,
I wouldn't have wasted my life in this way.
If there was a way to go back in time,
I'd take it all back preventing my crime.

I'm sitting in prison, it's too late for me,
so look at my life and see what I see...
With 36 years, and 18 to do,
I hope I have shown; "This isn't for you".