Can i get some advice on the first verse of this?

Question

I’m lying on the pavement

Staring down the barrel of some fool’s nine

This is my only way to escape enslavement

From my life, this constant grind

I know this could be the end of my life

I reach deep into my pocket for my knife

Because I’m not afraid to roll deep

I’ve done it many times before

Still I find myself about to weep

I don’t want to die face down on this gravel floor

Cause I don’t want to die some ***** lying on the street

I’m never gonna let myself except defeat

So I lunge out, pain shooting up my thigh

I can feel as my steel slides into his flesh

I feel myself start to cry

Tears added into the mesh

A mixture of fears

Now a mixture of tears

A mixture of hate

Now a mixture of slanted fate

That’s turned upon me

A toll that’s once again has taken its fee

Answer 1

It's very good. I'm just not sure which lines,as some type of order, are to rhyme. Rhyming words are great, the flow seems uneven. It starts with 1/3; 5/6; 7/9; 11/12; 14/16; if I counted correctly, then each two lines. Maybe it is a method I am not familiar with.