Not All Lessons Happen in a Classroom

 My first lesson was this: 

Life isn't fair. 

Sure, it seems simple enough, 

But after a while times got tough.  

Momma didn't eat so that I could.  

She still doesn't and I'm starting adulthood.  

Lesson Number Two: 

There are words you can never undo, 

Unsay,  

Unfeel.  

Lesson Three: 

I used to think that the worst thing of all was that I could be me.  

How far did I fall to think, 

"I would be better off dead."  

I was on the brink, 

Of my own demise.  

I didn't understand school or life, 

I thought I would give up soon. 

A teacher taught me how to read,  

Poetry became the thing to impede, 

The END.