see homeless people in the street

I see homeless hungry people on the road

I wonder if they were sold a lie

I wonder if their mothers told them to stay in school

Did they go to college?

I smell! Homeless people in the train

I smell homeless people begging for money to get clean again

They say

If I stay

In school there is absolutely

No way!

I can end up homeless

Are they liars?

Did they go to college?

I hear! Homeless people on the train

Telling me stories about how they wish

To start again

Explaining situations they’ve been in…

Did they go to college?

I work hard I hard work from elementary to high

My character has been accessed by

My grades

If I do good I am good

If I do bad I am bad

And that’s sad     so I

Eat, breathe and sleep school

That’s all I do

Met everyone I know or knew

In here

So it’s unfair

Because I don’t know what I’m doing

I don’t even know what my major is

I’m here

Because I don’t want to beg on trains

I don’t want to smell like disaster and depression

I give in to my mother’s superstition

Because I want a family

I want a big house in the middle of somewhere beautiful

I want spoiled rotten kids and a well fed puppy

So I study

Because I don’t want to smell like disaster and depression

I don’t want to be homeless on a train

And I never want some seventeen year old girl to judge me

And

If by some chance

I do end up homeless on a train

At least I can say to her

It’s okay

I’m educated

I went to college