Failure

Failure is not an option

that's what he told himself

a lonely poor black kid that only wanted wealth

he had the smarts to make it in school

just not the patience to do the work

he had a role model, an idol named joe cool

joe moved them just as soon as he got them

he realized that joe cool was his way of not failing

his way of coming up in the world

he saw joe as his meal ticket

he kicked it with joe and joe decided to use him

he ran numbers and move them for joe for months

all over the blocks in the city

they called him super pretty, due to the way he dressed and handled business

until one day he wasn't so pretty anymore

he got caught with a stash

he got hauled off in front of joe

and joe didnt even bother to acknowledge his best runner

he now knows that joe was not his way to avoid failure

he regrets kicking it with joe to this day

but now he knows that he failed

not for gettin caught or even selling

but for thinking that failure was not an option

it was an option

just not one that he liked

he now knows its best to fail than succeed in some case