You Made Me

It happens sometimes.
It gets fucked up.
You grow up on the streets
Spitting on the floor
Smoking cigarettes
Getting in fights.

You try to find yourself
You know who you are
But you’re lost.

You spend afternoons
Listening to MTV
And pretending you are
A rock star

Pretending you mean
Something
To somebody…

Mom is late
Dad is gone
You have no
Brothers or sisters.

You have a cat that
Mom gave up
The only thing you loved

I don’t remember
Homework
I don’t remember
Sunday dinner.

I remember the
Kids in the neighborhood
And being alone.

It wasn’t my life
To live
I just happened
Not a plan

But I love you
Immensely
And I can’t let go
I know
Somewhere in
Your heart
You made me.

11/24/2010

God's Face

I show myself to you
And you believe me
Therefore,
I can not tell a
Lie.

This is who I am
What I am
With my help,
The universe has
Made it so.

I suffer.
But that is my cross
To bear.

I change
Everything around
Me.

At night, I cry
For what I have
Become

But in the
Morning I cry
For what I have
Given

Hope
Love
Faith

I give it all

And I am not
Sorry for it.

What do you see
When you look
In the mirror?

Do you see
Your own
Possibility?

Do you see
What God gave to
You?

Do you
Believe?

It’s one life
One moment
One chance
To change the
World.

To even feel
That it matters
Puts a smile
On God’s
Face.

5-2010