The Future? Define Future..

Future - a time that isn't present, is to be
my future? pretty fuckin distant is what it seems to me
see, When I take a look around those around me
I surround me with some sound dudes like dope beats
like the bass that drops and keeps the mood uptempo
with a little bit of a melody that pauses... uno momento
then this melodic journey includes a deep chordophone
it's all alone, playing solomnly, calmly, eerily like a painful moan
and once the percussion drops a-gain, my emotion's like the Obama campaign
like, I know times are hard now, beyond the scope
don't know how, but I'ma find me some motha fuckin hope
cuz, the more i think of plans that are to BE had
I be MAD at all the failures of my DAD,
like DAMN! Why couldn't you have been THE man
nah I got stuck with a bum who gave me all that he HAD...
Sad? Truly, like an ungrateful fuck, but I'm stuck
broke, no buck to buy a lottery ticket to test my luck
the more i think, I see that you can't make money WITHOUT MONEY
and shit, the more I know I grow
and believe that poverty is a self FULFILLING PROPHECY
I sit and think about how great it can be
but it sucks to see the man that I am, then analyze the man that I CAN be
and think, if I can arrange a time and place for them to meet
SHIIIIITTT, I don't know what'll happen but I ponder
I'll make a run for the greatness of Alexander
but for now I meander, I walk aimlessly I ramble
I look behind me and see a train wreck
I look ahead and see a gap
can't see the other side, but feeling froggy
want to make that leap, but My future's lookin foggy
never been the type to take the risk not knowing the reward
but should I ball my fist take one step back and leap forward?
and if I fall? Where do I land? where do I go? What do I do?
who to call? Can't ask for a hand, well I must do as I must do
So I watch those around me graduate into bigger/better things
look at the foggy valley wishin I had wings
not knowing what the future brings, knowing no-things...
nothing for myself, just what other people tell
but fuck it right? no one built Rome in one night
and what the hell? Falling is better then standing in one spot all my life
So I'ma take that step back, fuck it I'll take two
get left back for a semester fuck it make it two
establish a legacy where I stand, make fists outta my hands
start a run then take a lunge into the foggy abyss
and if the other side I miss, I'll be further along then where I stood
but when I land past this gap, well...I always knew I could...
But that jump's gonna have to wait, maybe just a day
but who's to say I haven't jumped already anyway?
forward vision's always blurry, corrections there are plenty...
but hindsight...man... that's always 20/20
look at the past, avoid the same mistakes, it helps
because if corrections aren't made, history repeats itself...
nervous at what's to come, I wipe the sweat from my brow
If I want to cash my check in the future, need to bounce like my checks right now
so I take a deep breath, start to run see where it takes me
I'ma work for mine... what have you done for yours lately?