What Does It Take?
What does it take
to change a life
from within?
Young and fearless
those 3 words,
inscribed on your chest
Invincible you were
til one day,
gun shots fired
your body running
suddenly ablaze
the sirens wailed
your family prayed
your homies await
your enemies irate
everything hurt
a miracle, you survived
and lived to tell
did you understand
you put your
family at risk?
did it matter
you committed a crime
done did your time
did you realize
a bullet would injure
more than a disk
now, though young
you’re bound to a chair
cannot run, cannot hide
a lifelong disability
you must take in stride
swallow all that gangsta pride
you leave the hospital
vowing to change
yet a few months later
it’s back to the same.
what does it take
to change a life
from within?
[Submission from Soapie, a nurse from the New England area who works in the urban setting. Soapie has been a fellow Christian blogger with David C for years (!), long before this site existed.]
