Potential

A bite a sip anything

Should I curse god for what he has given me

Should I be a victim of life?

Is life a joke?

I wake up to my reality

A joke many say.

A joke that has no humor

But only the sadness and sorrow of my life

Is this right?

Born into something I had no control over.

Fighting every day to wake up to my reality

To hear and see what I see

Sometimes I wonder has life given up on me

From the lies

To the promise breaking

To there no longer being any hope

Is fate the one to blame?

Is it my fault I was born?

My mother my father is it there fault?

I say NO, NO, NO

I won’t let life play me…

I say I will take those baby steps even if I do fall a couple of times

Because two steps forward one step back is better than no steps at all

School, jobs, money all these things me, and my people never had

But this is a new me a new person, hopefully a new nation

My people suffer every day

But the worst is knowing they will never get the chance to make it in this world

To be a somebody.

To be a something.

We all deserve the right to live life to the fullest

How should some man some women decide my potential.

When even God gives me the chance to live to make my own decisions

They say they do…

But when you got a family no education no money no currency

You try to make it in this lonely,  dark world…

By Alexander B. (2012)