Lost

Scene i:

Papi cleaned toilets.
Mami cleaned houses.
Sister one cleans up after drunk men.
Sister two is already dead.
Brother is paranoid.

Scene ii:

We enter their space quietly, yet stained
Grateful, yet quilty
Knowledgeable, yet doubtful
Prepared or was it all potential?
The lucky ones.
The first to move beyond the streets,
not have babies at 15,
drop out of school and work
at Burger King.
We enter mathematically less than.
The equation is already solved.

Scene iii:

We leave but not as doctors or lawyers or professors.
We leave lost, crazy, and still colored.