I AM, I WAS, I WILL BE by J

I am J

I wonder about life

I hear singing

I want to be a football player

I am J

 

I pretend I am a ninja

I feel like a sac of potatoes

I touch fishes swimming in the sea

I worry about dying

I cry for my daddy

I am J

 

I understand my life

I say I want my daddy

I dream my daddy will come home

I try to be good

I hope I can survive

I am a leader

 

 I was a liar

I wondered about life

I heard people talking junk

I saw fighting

I wanted it to stop

I was a liar

 

I pretended to be brave

I felt hurt

I touched Jesus

I worried about my future

I cried because of him

I was a liar

 

I understood my father

I said it was okay

I dreamed it would be better

I tried to feel sorry

I hoped I was sorry

I was a liar

 

I will die

I wonder when

I will hear why

I will see how

I will want to live

I will be dead

 

I pretended I was alive

I will feel the bullet shoot me

I will touch my wound

I will worry that it is over

I will cry it hurts

I will be dead

 

I will understand life

I will say goodbye

I will dream greater dreams

I will try to survive

I will hope I do

I will be dead