Until

Repost: Oct 20, 2006

Current mood:annoyed

What you know about growing up in a single parent home, watching your father go from owning his business to being strung out?
What you know about watching your mother struggle to get groceries for her two babies, giving up her house, moving from apartment to apartment just because every time the rent went up she couldn't afford it?
What you know about walking home from school at 7 in charge of your little 5 year old sister and the house until your mother got home?
What you know about struggling through high school working jobs just so you could afford to do some extra curricular activities?
What you know about seeing your father on the city bus the day after you graduated from high school only to realize that he sitting right next to you and he don't even recognize his first born?
What you know about going to bed hungry because you only had $5 in your account in a strange city away from home, moving in with a friend and her family just so you can eat?
What you know about working two jobs in college, taking out loans on top of loans, taking an overload of classes and all at night...then taking the city bus back up town back to your tiny ass apartment that you managed to get in an upscale neighborhood?
What you know about graduating from college without health benefits in desperate need of surgery, walking in the welfare office because you can't even afford to buy yourself groceries even though you just went into debt getting that piece of paper from the university that was supposed to keep this type of shit from happening?
What you know about being a starving artist, struggling to pay bills, struggling to start a business and follow your dreams?
Until you walk in my shoes, know my pain, pay my dues, felt my troubles, know my struggles, know my fears and shed my tears.
Until then, you only know what you think you know.