There’s Love in a Pizza Roll

There’s love in the oven, made to serve two.

There’s love in a microwave, just made for you.
There’s love on the plate now, in 12 roll fashion,
There’s love in those 7 minutes, shared by passion.

There’s love in those times, that are special to you.

What stuck out, and what you know to be true
Is that we didn’t have it all as kids, we had no value.
But we had the love that money forbids, or whatever have you.

There’s love in the moment when you get downstairs,

And mom comes down with a plate of answered prayers,
And in the basement with your friends and MTV,
And sitting there in the moment, just young, and free.

There’s love when mom and dad get wasted upstairs,

You have school tomorrow but nobody cares,
You sing Nirvana until it's midnight
You rock on for hours, until you hear the birds and see the light.

There’s love in those times when mom buys them for you,
And you for one, wanted them too.
But you know in your mind it's because you’re poor,
That you can’t eat better than that anymore.

There’s love when you eat them, and know it fact,

That pizza rolls are cheap, but pieces of heaven wrapped,
And even though they’re the symbol of broke,
You know that this is all “Just a joke.”

There’s love in those times, when mommy was crying,

No more money I know, but God dammit she was trying.
So I walk to her and tell her it’s gonna be okay,
Because she was a good mom, even to this day.
There’s love in the time, just before the dawn,
When the air is still and dew’s on the lawn.
When the Earth stays still, almost holding its breath,
Look and behold the pale horse, the man who rides him is Death.

There’s love when he marches forth, the paper says in bold,

Big, bright, and red, “foreclosed” it said, or so I was told.
 But my momma, the kind woman she is,
That “We’re on vacation!” and we were just kids.

There’s love when you hear the parents get out of bed,
“Oh fuck! Quick hide!” your friends just said
Throw out the beer and hide your all your weed,
Run across the room with just as much speed.

There’s love in those moments. Good or bad doesn’t matter.

You hung out with friends, and filled it with laughter.
‘Cause those were the days and you didn’t study,
You shared pizza rolls with friends so who needs money?

There’s love in these moments before you realized,

That poverty is real, and it costs real lives.
I, however, remember that day,
When I woke up and saw my childhood was that of a stray.

There’s love when mom breaks down and finally tells me,
That we were in trouble then, that most our toys were free.
And it’s weird how I knew, all along,
But even still, I knew not how to respond.

There’s love however, this I’ve come to know,

That i’ve still come to love, to learn, to grow.
And that it doesn’t matter that we didn’t have the green,
But we had the love, and love unseen
But There’s still love in those moments,
When life was of huge disappointments
I still know those years,
Filled with bitter bottles, and empty tears.

Even still,
There’s love when the rich kids say,
That pizza rolls will limit my day,
And ask me if I even know, what's in the bowl?

And I say there’s love,

There’s love in a pizza roll.