Do Good is My Friend
You are almost there
You were always destined to be
A special part of the dream I see
It’s as if they didn’t know
You were the change that had to be
For me
And I became me
But I wasn’t the one
Whose struggle was to come
I saw you when you didn’t know
The tears that were to come
I was looking all the time
Because the misery and pain
Should have been mine
But it didn’t bother you
The way it bothered me
And little did I know
When you put on your show
I found out how to grow
To be more like you
Because you understood
What you had to go through
To become you
And you made me glad
That I became me
And the ones we don’t know
Can we teach them how to grow?
Or maybe I stay in my lane
You will always recognize pain
Because you’ve been there
In the same place I saw him
When I didn’t even know him
And now I know him
But because I learned from you
What the picture of the pain would look like
When I saw it
Now the very thought of seeing
Or even the thought of being
In pain
Even a little like you
Knowing what it takes to go through
And now I think I do
But every day I’ll find a way
To bring normal to what is not
To respect each moment that I got
Good or bad
To enjoy each tear
Happy or sad
To never give up trying
To bring better
Without dying
To Do Good
Without lying
And still find another friend
And I promise to do it again
And when I see
The light shining over me
I will rejoice
And Do Good all over again
Because Do Good is my friend
©Tuckerlott 12/15/2020