English Assignment-- Based on a Timely Piece of Advice

[xx_anybody_xx]

Time you
Take your mind
Out of the gutter;
Shine up your life
Like a forgotten
Piece of silver.
Pull your
Grades up
Remember how it
Could be.

You been
Out at midnight
Neglecting yourself,
Treating yourself like
The sorry piece of
Flesh you think
You are.

Thinking bout things
No one will remember
Too any night
Even you won't,
Especially you,
Won't remember

Crushing your own
Dreams like
They're tortilla chips
At the bottom of
A school bag,
Acting like its nothing
Acting like it doesn't
Matter.

Baby,
You need to realize
You're repitition of
The past
You need to realize
No one can
Love you til
You love yourself.

You say you're
Fulfilling destiny
You were meant to
Be minimum
Wage
Be shopping at
The dollar tree
Be paying
Child support

But I've already
Seen
Your future how
It could be.
It's bright, baby.
It's shining.