Homeless at 15
Ain’t got no dream
High school drop out
Sleeping couch to couch
Bus to bus
Life got real tough
The streets took me in
Taught me to win
History of abuse
Kept that shit mute
Homeless has no face
Homeless has no race
If u look at me u wouldn’t have knew
All the struggle I went through
Grabbin on my tummy
They said I’m just a youngin
But I already killed one’my kin
Can’t do it again
And so I’m on the street
Ain’t got Nothing to eat
For me n my growin belly
Livin from telly to telly
Going back to my abuser
What a fuckin loser
My one lame option
Taught me caution
And so u think u know
Like I should reap what I sow
But I was just a kid
I don’t even want to live
No courage to take my life
But it’s too much strife
And so I WOMANed up
Hit the block
Got my money up
N you judge us
My community-but
You wouldn’t stand a day in our shoes
You would sit up here n lose
You ain’t got that skin
That won’t let no one in
You say we want the streets
Like we don’t want a warm bed to sleep
What kinda lies is that
So u could feel good living fat
While poverty surrounds you
Acting like we got the flu
U act like we don’t exist
Desensitized to the realness
We’re homeless cuz we’re poor
Not cuz we don’t want that home door that home floor
So we get that government aid
That stigma y’all mad at cuz y’all paid
Y’all paid for the prisons
Locking up our children
Locking up our daddy’s
Who rode round in caddys
U know who supports them
Our sisters n single women
Taking from OUR households
To profit YOUR stock holds
So that’s where their daddy is
Living wit the fuckin pigs
Now I’m off the streets
Got my food I eat
Got my babies wit me
But I still got pain
My tears fall like rain
My past haunts my dreams
All I got is deep spirituality
Keeping me sane
So I don’t fall again
My life is scarred
It all went too far
Still catching up
Cuz I was out of luck
Fast money was my hobby
Got me lost from my body
It got divided from my soul
For Christmas Santa shoulda sent coal
For all the dirt I did
For years I hid
Embarrassed of the life I lived
And I never said all this before
Let u peak into my soul
And I walk around in vain
Cuz I’m always in pain
But u would never know
By the smile I always show
The queen of laughter
Ain’t happily ever after
My life would make u fear
For your kids to not get near
What I went through
When no one knew
So open your mind
Never know who needs you to be kind
Cuz I needed you
But you never knew.
