I know

That you have seen

The boy at the corner of the lunch room,

Though

Most of the time

He tries to hide from you.

Behind laughs

And too many curse words to count

And “I don’t cares”

And “go suck a-”

Well.

I probably shouldn’t

Say that word here.

But you get the idea.

I know

You know that kid.

And before you say

“That kid is annoying”

Please take a second

To slip into his jordans,

Which is probably hard to do

Because you’ve probably

Never even seen his shoes.

You never gave him that time

Why?

I don’t know you

And I’m not trying fire off

Shots. I’m

Not packing

I swear

But

Honestly, why?

Everybody says that world hunger

Is a tragedy,

But so few ever have the balls

To give up their lunch.

And the same goes for lunch tables

And kids without friends,

Who feel they are not worth the time you would have to spend

To sit with them

Because it seems that

Nobody

ever

has.

This isn’t supposed to be a guilt trip,

I just wanted to call it to your attention

And raise a call to action.

Because God really loves those kids

And because those kids don’t know that.

Could you show them?

Because 10,000 people have already told them

That someone cares

And those chairs

At their lunch table

Are still

Empty

I’m not asking you to

Give up your friends.

I’m suggesting

you make an effort

To make a new one.

And, before you judge

Maybe take a good

Long

;look at their shoes.

You might be surprised

That their jordans are fake

And that the souls

Are held together by tape

That they scraped

off the bottom

Of the lunch tables

nobody ever wanted to sit at.

That those shoes

Really cost ten dollars at walmart

I mean

That's all the money mom had left over

After that pill poppin’ session last weekend

And now

They don’t have the money

For medicine for

The mental health disorder

They’ve dealt with since the 7th grade.

I’m not saying

their perfectly innocent.

I’m say

Their life may be

More difficult

Than you think.

I’m saying

Nobody deserves the perfect love we receive

from Christ.

Yet we persist

To hoard it.

Why?

I think I’ve said

what I need to say.

But

Words only go so far.

If you missed it,

In all rhymes,

I’m asking you

To love people

Like Jesus did.

He loved to

Fill the seats

Of that kid’s table

And show him

What it looks like

To love.

Because he knew

That 10,000 people

Had already told him.

Thank you.

For listening.