It's a Fighting Chance Out Here.

24th and Mission

I took this picture because as I walked through here I thought of some things that my eyes have really been opened up to. 

A war and a fight between two. 

There are many included,
but it really comes down to red and blue.
And who is who, and who's with whom.

Life is a war, and you gotta learn to fight

Just coming out the womb is deadly, if you ain’t positioned right

Best position yourself to fighting stance, it’s a fighting chance

Out here.

Who’s fighting with you? Best find out if it ain’t clear.

You thought they had you, til death came near

Where they at?

Watch em.

Bullet through your head, or a knife to your back, if you don’t catch em.

Sounds harsh, but it’s life.

Trife life.

It’s there.

Heard that, loud and clear.

There’s a life out there that most don’t even know about

There’s so many kinds of lives we could live in one life.

People living deadly lives, they just want out.

But they can’t, or they won’t

Stuck in their life because that’s all they know

Being out here in this dark world

Changes you.

There’s things this life makes you do.

And the wrongs they do, they think is right.

And what’s right is wrong, just in their eyes.

Judgement and Justice taken in their own hands,

Take one of theirs out and your life ends.

Best position yourself to a fighting stance.

This may sound dark, evil and very violent

But this is reality, it’s just kept silent.

So much hatred in one’s heart,

It takes your family and friends and tears them apart.

Love, it just takes somebody

to love somebody.

Ever heard of ghost town? That’s the TenderLoin,

In the well known city of San Francisco

People just drive by and they don’t even look twice at the shaking woman with the twisted joints

Oh tourists, you just don’t know

It’s amazing…

the amount of drug abuse, and they can’t even fight it.

People drive by, like “Whatever, just another addict.”

Her face was distorted as the drugs overtook her body

It all could’ve been avoided, if,

Love came to the picture to help somebody LIVE.

~Jaqueline Herrera