[Music]
she said to me once I wish you would
just kill yourself you’re such a burden
to me I think I was 9 when my mom drove
me down to the deepest part of Baja
California and she walks me up to an
orphanage and she knocks on the door and
found this kid and she left me there for
90 days until my grandmother to get out
of her where she had ducked to me and my
grandmother came and rescued me my mom
beat me every single day of my
elementary school years with things you
could imagine and a lot of things you
couldn’t every day my back was bloodied
and scarred
[Music]
I had to wear three t-shirts to school
each day first t-shirt because the blood
would seep through and second t-shirt
you could still see it
finally the third t-shirt you couldn’t
kids at school they make fun of me a
fool it’s a hundred degrees why you
wearing three t-shirts and then he
stopped speaking so overwhelmed with
emotion and he seemed to be staring at a
piece of his story that only he could
see when he could regain his speech she
said through his tears I wore three
t-shirts well into my adult ears because
I was ashamed of my wounds I didn’t want
anybody to see him but now I welcome my
wounds I run my fingers over my scars my
wolves are my friends after all how can
I help heal the wounded if I don’t
the measure of our compassion lies not
but only in our willingness to see ourselves in kinship
she said to me once I wish you would
just kill yourself you’re such a burden
to me I think I was 9 when my mom drove
me down to the deepest part of Baja
California and she walks me up to an
orphanage and she knocks on the door and
found this kid and she left me there for
90 days until my grandmother to get out
of her where she had ducked to me and my
grandmother came and rescued me my mom
beat me every single day of my
elementary school years with things you
could imagine and a lot of things you
couldn’t every day my back was bloodied
and scarred
[Music]
I had to wear three t-shirts to school
each day first t-shirt because the blood
would seep through and second t-shirt
you could still see it
finally the third t-shirt you couldn’t
kids at school they make fun of me a
fool it’s a hundred degrees why you
wearing three t-shirts and then he
stopped speaking so overwhelmed with
emotion and he seemed to be staring at a
piece of his story that only he could
see when he could regain his speech she
said through his tears I wore three
t-shirts well into my adult ears because
I was ashamed of my wounds I didn’t want
anybody to see him but now I welcome my
wounds I run my fingers over my scars my
wolves are my friends after all how can
I help heal the wounded if I don’t
the measure of our compassion lies not
but only in our willingness to see ourselves in kinship
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