What If

About me persevering through the trials and tribulations I've experienced throughout my life but still being appreciative about who I've become as a result.

This morning after I awoke, laying in my bed

I thought to myself what if I was dealt a different hand in this card game of life

Whether it would be a better hand or worse I’d leave up to imagination

However at some moments I can’t help but wonder…what if:

What if I grew up with a father like most of my friends?

What if it wasn’t so difficult for me to blend?

What if I wasn’t bullied as a kid, and didn’t have to take the long way home

What if I didn’t have to learn the beauty in being alone?

What if the important things in life I didn’t have to be shown?

What if I started treating others how they treated me

Would I then be the bad fruit that is bore from the tree?

I think so, all because of perception

In a matter of years I’d go from being the guy who showed class

To being a self-centered a*s.

This type of past I am proud to claim

Because as a result, life’s lesson’s I was able to tame

At a young age too, that makes it even better,

Like on Thanksgiving bringing out the Christmas sweater

Prepared for life and almost all that was to come

I can now walk confidently to the beat of my own drum.