In Your Shoes

From a baby to a boy you were tought to hustle, all cause your dad left you and your mother it became a struggle.

You grew up in the streets learning just trying to survive, not knowing if you would make it in your thirties unsure you would be alive.

Your mother showed you love but you still missed your father,wandering why he wasn't their for you as if you were a bother.

Selling and doing drugs was all he knew, no guidance or direction from a uncle or real man, only a cousin or two.

His grandfather was a wise man who loved him deeply, he didn't judge or belittled him but loved him completley.

His grandfather died it turned his whole world upside down,thinking their is nothing left, I need to leave this town.

Smoking and drinking was his cure for pain, sleeping with this girl and that girl he felt he had nothing left to gain.

He battled his whole life just trying to fit in, being judged and picked on or called weak from his so called friends.

He met a girl who looked beyond his past, he never felt this way before,he wasn't for sure if it would last.

He wandered how could I be so lucky she really sees me for me, she didn't care where I came from, she loved me for me.

The boy finally left the only world he knew behind, starting a new life with her and a child he brought his family a home a place he now calls mine.