{"id":2352,"date":"2019-08-04T02:26:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T06:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-220214-918144.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2020-02-10T06:25:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T11:25:58","slug":"thank-you-daybreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daybreakdayton.org\/thank-you-daybreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Daybreak"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I just want to say thank you for all the things you helped me through
\nThrough all the stress, depression and all of the other stuff I\u2019ve been through
\nTo say \u2018Lonnie keep your head up\u2019 and holding it for me
\nAnd not letting go and pushing me \u2018cause y\u2019all was there for me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Let me sit and think for a minute
\nDaybreak was there for me when I was 16 years old
\nI was a homeless little boy and they brought me in from the cold
\nI was in the shelter and I stayed to myself in a deep dark hole<\/p>\n

From the first day I walked in that place they had me in defense mode
\nI was ready to go home but home wasn\u2019t the place for me
\nSo I crawled out of my dark hole and they started talking to me
\nAsking me what I wanted to be in life but I had nothing to be<\/p>\n

I was a boy with a bad past and my future was hard to see
\nI tried my best to stay there but I was just ready to leave
\nI had $5.00 in my pocket but that wasn\u2019t enough to succeed
\nBuy me something to eat and I\u2019ll be done, I\u2019ll be left to the streets<\/p>\n

So I stayed and tried to find out what could benefit me
\nThey had an Independent Living program and that was something I liked
\nThey helped me pay for everything the first few months, all your utilities and lights
\nI had no if\u2019s, ands, buts, maybes, probablys, or mights
\nI jumped head first into the program and it changed my life<\/p>\n

It came time when I paid rent and I was paying a price
\nI was living good, I can admit it, I was doing real nice
\nThen I lost my job and I didn\u2019t want to tell them about that
\nSo for five days I was riding around putting in 100s of apps<\/p>\n

Sitting there waiting patiently by the phone but nobody called back
\nI got so scared to tell them I had an asthma attack
\nBut it wasn\u2019t so bad, because when I told them at last
\nThey said “leave it behind, life goes on that job is gone, leave that in the past”<\/p>\n

So they put me on the internet and I started working so fast\u201d
\nPutting my resume out and they started calling at last
\nFour years later, I\u2019m a man now and doing it right
\nHigh School Diploma, four trades and none of my money is tight<\/p>\n

Maybe this rap thing is me, I\u2019ve been doing it since I was a kid
\nBut for right now, I\u2019m saying “Thank You, let\u2019s help some more kids.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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