Learn 2 Love You

I guess they wonder

Where I been

Searched through the Pain

To find the love inside

To reverse

I was sleep

Homeless on the ground one night

When I heard the voice of God

Come to me

And this is what he told me

He said

“You can still have a good life

As long as you don’t give up

You will suffer in life but

Don’t give up”
When we are born

Of course we want the best life

This is True

But you can’t do a thing

Until you learn 2 Love you

People gossiped and they talked about me

I was on the ground

Tapped out

Messed up

From all the pain

I felt,

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Homeless Lessons to Rachel Lyra

If human shit on the sidewalk offends you

Think where you would crap

In the middle of the night

If you were forced to live on the streets;

 

If walking by sidewalk tent

Encampments is uncomfortable

For you, imagine how a 30% rent

Increase, loss of job, sudden

Hospitalization, or owner-move-in

Could pull the rug out

From under you,

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Crawl Space

There’s an

Empty seat

On muni

 

This bus

Has voided

And I have avoided

The fare inspector

Through the rear

Door chimney

 

It must be the

Holidays and the

Fare inspectors have

Grown white beards,

Gained 200 pounds

And the jingle I hear

Are coins I don’t have

 

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The Landlady

Oh in my youth, I usedta tramp

the coast of California,

and mighty fun it was to camp–

though bitter cold I’ll warnya…

So thus I sought a room to let,

just somethin’ warm and cozy,

and otherwise would not have met

the lovely lady Rosie.

She ran a humble boarding house

the western side the City;

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