Rotten Plum to Sweet Peach

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Rotten Plum to Sweet Peach

I went from a rotten plum
To a sweet peach
Cause success was out of reach
And the outcome for some
Was tragic indeed
Cause the need to feed
My greed left many souls
To bleed
No one thought I would
Succeed
They did not understand
That the hand
That was dealt
Came from a stacked
Deck
I did not want to 
Cause havoc
In my community
Cause I was
Looking for pennies
Meanwhile the whole time
All I had was dimes 
but instead
They said that
I needed quarters
In order
To feed my
Son and daughter
So now what do I do?
No hope is in view
So now I am standing
Outside and it is raining
I am complaining
That I don’t want a 
Hand out
I want it to work out
I want to be productive
And maybe do something
Constructive
But again the only
Door open is the pen
Or the crack house
I have to get out
So I moved far away
from
The rats and the bums
I moved to the suburbs
And learned how to
Speak without
Splitting a verb
Now my new community
Looks up to me
Little kids want to emulate me
Despite the negativity
Of where I came from
Now the rotten plum
Who use to live
With the rats and the bums
Has change his outcome
Now success is in my reach
As I change from a rotten plum
To a Sweet Peach