Do You Know What It Means To Be A MAN, A WOMAN Or GROWN ?
WOULD NEVER HAVE WOKE-UP
by: David W. Johnson, Jr.

This feeling of something wrong did not come overnight
For years, I turned a “blinded-eye” to things around me
I had a destructive sense of what was wrong and right
For the bad things I was doing, the good I could not see

The devil took me down a path I want no child to travel
It does not have to be drugs or guns that can destroy a life
Back then, I traveled a road not of concrete but soft gravel
My life was truly filled with an abundance of toils and strife

No parents or extended family to offer support and guidance
A child’s life is all but impossible to travel a road to success
So day after day, my life was in a long tunnel of subsidence
Love and caring from strangers helped me to do my very best

Gradually my life began to take on a new sense of direction
I began to see the World with a much clearer understanding
Instead of creating destruction I start to offer others protection
It began with positive things of myself I started commanding

Never would I thought positive of myself were I not shown how
If no one cares about you, it is not possible to care about yourself
For some reason all things good in the World you tend to disavow
Strangers and positive relationships gave me confidence in myself

Once I saw things clearly, I could see our children were in trouble
More than that, I could see and understand the reasons they were
They were being intentionally place inside this destructive bubble
A bubble where nothing positive with their little lives could occur

God made it clear to me that my experiences had been for a reason
To get a message out to adults that they we are failing our children
What we are not doing for our children can be defined as desertion
On adults for love, support and direction is whom children depend

Until I met adults in my travels that cared, I too was in that bubble
A loving adult can take a child from a very filthy to a very clean cup
Adults stop procrastinating children need us to get them out of trouble
Were it not for positive minded adults, “I Would Never Have Woke Up”

"Graves" They Are Filled With Our Children


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