more than just words

in another universe where I decided to stay at home to save money or just scroll through my phone all night instead of finding you would the stars still align for us would I have met you in a library aisle and still told you to smile or just given you looks from a distant queue in IKEA or Asda maybe we would have met through a mutual friend in ends or could we have just remained two complete strangers in another universe where I decided to stay at home could you have met someone else would she be to you what I am now and would I have remained by myself or maybe I decided to go out and you stayed at home scrolling through your phone all night would I have felt something was missing would I have felt something was not right if the stars are aligned for us then our journeys would have crossed paths in every universe destiny would coerce the collision of our hearts

build strong children and repair broken men invest in the youth but do not forget the men the men that were so young with their head against a gun never taught right from wrong and still dragged out of their slum broken by a life of crime or broken inside doing time watching it go by through the lines on their wrist dreaming of a world that does not exist a world they already hated no opportunities to make it a life that was negated from the moment they were created cursed by pigmentation the constant alienation a mother without occupation a father without qualification broken by their homes and broken by the system broken by dreams to just be to live like the free build strong children and repair broken men invest in the youth but do not forget the men do not forget the men because they will raise the youth and strong children can not be built by broken men