Jacob Lawrence, Supermarket — Gifts for the Homeless (1994)
July 19, 2008:
It was easy to predict he would be the first to fall,
with such odds against him.
Yet of all that group he held out the longest,
week after week while the others sank one by one back into
chaos and despair.
What kept him holding on?
The love of his daughters, I think.
He deserves a life of hope and promise.