Kenny O\'Donnell

The Trying

The moment you think you\'re good

You\'ve gone bad

And it\'s a hard journey back into the dark

The dank wet alley of doubt

Where you sit on cardboard

And smell the scraps of cheap restaurants

And hobo piss and hobo intercourse.

Never leave here.

Never think you\'re too good to be here.

Because if you aren\'t kneeling

In the puddles, with holes in your trousers

You aren\'t trying to get out

And it\'s only in the trying

That you\'re worthy of leaving.