Keep Dreaming

I guess this could be considered part two of the introduction stage....Here is one of my favorite pieces that I have written so far. Consider this an introduction to a side of me that few people know exist..well until now. Here goes nothing.....

This would be best described as a letter to the past, from the future:

To the little boy

With the thick glasses

Sitting in the front of the classroom

Whose only reason for not

Being called a nerd is

The fact that he is good at sports,

Keep dreaming,

For I know what life has in store for you.

Trust, the thick glasses jokes,

And the dark skinned jokes are only the beginning

Of the end.

Soon you will get older

and you will be able to wow people,

Not with your ability to put the ball in the hoop.

But with your mind.

And with your ability to work harder than most

And still not be satisfied with “making it”

Keep dreaming,

For the shyness will go away, kind of

And those glasses will turn to contact lenses

And the fact that they doubt your generation

Will give you the fuel necessary to step up

And be the reason that they keep hope alive

You’ll also learn to look at things differently

Those contacts will become a telescope

And you will be able to see behind the initial image.

You will be able to look at the most delightful of smiles

And see the pain that is hidden within the cheek bones

You will be able to look at a single mother of four

And see the strength in her steps

As she wakes up every morning to go to work

Without a single complaint because she does what she has to

So her children can do what they want to, when they get older

You will learn that true beauty has no definition

You will see flaws as beautiful

And understand the imperfections make everything that much better

You will learn that Sonics really does exist in Southern CA

and that the slushies really are as good as they seem on the commercial

 you will also go through phases

3X tall will be the size of your white tee

and stuffing socks in shoes will be uncomfortable

but anything not to get a crease in the nikes

you will come to the conclusion that individuality has no fads

and clothes will no longer define you

you will find peace in words

and "fly" will be a term used for bees and birds

you will learn to make others laugh

because if they are laughing with you,

they can no longer laugh at you

So to the little boy

With the thick glasses

Sitting in the front of the classroom,

Keep dreaming

For I know what life has in store for you

Signed

The young man that learned through experience

That patience takes work

And life has its twists and turns,

But in the end

It will all be worth it

the young man that felt what bullets sounds like

who stopped listening to statistics

because according to statistics i shouldnt be alive

to write you this letter

the young man that found God for himself

and not just because his mother made him

the young man who stopped caring what others think

because there are only a few opinions that really matter

The young man that you will soon grow into

Me.

P.S. you wont hear this too many times over the next couple of years

so before you get too down of yourself just know

I love you

see you are the reason that i am today

so the little boy that is inside of me

keep breathing

for our journey has  just began.

no days off