"My Brown Eyes" by Alexander Amador

Alex is a young kid, who is poor and lives in the ghetto where there is heavy gang activity and deaths. Just like the brother, who he looks up to, he gets involved into a gang. Even though his brother had been arrested, his older brother takes care of there mom, which is the main reason why Alex respects him so much and wants to be like him to a certain degree. Alex prays that he will not end up like his brother by going to jail but at the same time he wants to be his brother in the way of taking care of their mom and and be what he sees as a "Man."