Got a new video game

Had homework too

Played my new console

Forgot my assignment

Went to school

Didn’t turn my work in

My grade dropped

I got worried

Parents saw

They started scolding me

Got grounded

I became unhappy

Went to school again

Refused to do work

Grades kept dropping

Parents grew angrier

I didn’t care

They sat me down to talk

I walked out on them

Left my house

Went into the city

The alleyways

The bars

Found a gang that liked me

Gave me a cigarette

I tried it

And loved it

Grew an addiction

And continued smoking

Got introduced to alcohol

Couldn’t get enough

Went to a bar to celebrate

Found a hot dude

We left to a hotel

Spent the night together

Woke up

The space in my bed was empty

He was gone

All my valuables gone

I ran to the bathroom

Threw up

A year later...

I’m barely alive

With a baby in my arms

So lonely

Little money

Minimum wage

My job as a waitress is hard

No one to watch my boy

Complaints from customers

“You’re fired!”

Couldn’t pay rent

Got kicked out

Lived on the streets

Begged for money

My boy quickly grew

Didn’t have food

Started to starve

Finally went to a shelter

Got proper treatment

Found another job

Stable income

Could afford another place

A babysitter too

Kept working hard

5 years later...

Living in a house

My boy is doing so well in school

Decided to reward him

Saved up enough money

To buy him a video game