Secret Savior

When you came
it was like something out of a dream
secret hip hop lover
who came to save me from
this disbelief in all my brothers.
You came to hold me
warm soft yet hard at the same time
dark brown ebony power
from a whole other continent.
Who are you
Who is this man?
I'd often ask watching you snoring next to me
this miracle
who defied the odds to find this me.
All the others
the don't even look twice at me
when I walk by on the street
because I don't have
that perfect form
a car
or that rough street edge
(or pretend to have it)
What I have is me
and for so long
it wasn't good enough
for so long I started to think
maybe they were right.
But that wasn't you
we made eye contact and
the plug went right into the socket
and the light came on
to chase away at least enough of the darkness
so these eyes could make out this light.