#WritcoPoemPrompt6
My mom was climbing the corporate ladder.
She was always working and never around.
My dad ran out on us many years ago.
He got lost, and didn’t want to be found.
We were always moving around a lot.
New schools caused me lots of strife.
I couldn’t feel at home, couldn’t put down roots.
Friends would come and go from my life.
There was a new girl at my work.
She seemed as nice as she could be.
I felt I could open up to her.
I started telling her all about me.
I told her no one ever had my back.
I never felt like I belonged anywhere I went.
She said she knew One who could help me.
Someone who was actually heaven sent.
She began telling me of a Man named Jesus,
saying things I had never heard before.
She said the Man had given...