LEAD

I am a child

What do I do?

World around me movin

People getting by

But how do I speak words that can communicate this absence

I

Only

Want

Need

Deserve

Did I ask to be here?

Brought in to this world by the miracle of GOD’s blessing

Left to worldly iniquity without the shield of relative affection

Who

Why

What did I do

Where do I go from here?

They tell me

They say do

And I do

And I try

And then I feel pain

Pain that finds a place in my heart

And is planted like a seed

Growing into resentment and bitterness

Blossoming in to fear and compensation

This is where I come from

This is why you look at me and see nothing

Because nothing was planted

And nothing was sown

Nothing was harvested

Nothing was produced

Nothing from nothing

Equals the scared, misguided product of an absence

Equals a life

A seed planted in iniquity and left with nothing

How will you help it grow?