99.3%
“99% of my life I was lied to ”
EMINEM
From “My name is”
Part 3
May be messed up with good reason
Subterfuge, deceit never out of season
Behave as you’re told us you’ll be pleasin’
Hold different concepts both believing
Confusion and self-reliance be achieving
The next part sounds like pure fiction
Bizarre way to live, under this condition
Happy marriage was the supposition
While mom loved a sweetheart in prison
Dad ignored it without painful recognition
After way too long, they would be ex’s
Yet kept a business running to do taxes
Even though, each got new spouses
The one released from prison, believe this
The other, meek and quite as a mouse is
Family secret went years unobserved
Told none of my friends, they never heard
Don’t know about you, but I think it’s weird
This darkness kept inside unperturbed
Till sound of silence has been disturbed
Worked for them early on, I was just a lad
In an office across alley from my grandad
Worked for him too, overall not to bad
My mentor being my uncle made me glad
All the lies going on, could he be my dad
Back at the office to make things clearer
Spent so much time, twas like living there
Under the watchful eye of two way mirror
To a seven year old can be much terror
Under such scrutiny to not make an error
Short while back suspect dad may be gay
To which offspring would, be way okay
Believing 2nd family reject him w/o say
Yet it’s his own he won’t give time of day
Olive branches extended, still go away
All because of money he owed anyway
Was going to leave that last line out
Expose the ugliness is what this is about
Yet taking away financial, loses its clout
Removing that, will bring no turnabout
Before $ came in play, the end was en route
All from an inspiring lyric, that I selected
Here to be here and not to be dejected
Continue building on the life I’ve erected
Making sure no one else feels rejected
On a positive note leaving this ended