A: Two Good Feet
I seen a lotta people tryna jump ‘round on one foot.
Up and down the sidewalk and out in the middle of the street, people hopin’.
Some people got a right leg they use, an’ others use the left.
They cranky tho’. Don’t they know they got two feet?
That ain’t nearly the most bizarre thang, these people hopin’ on one leg with a perfectly good one flappin’ loose.
Some people ain’t even doin’ that! Some people got two perfectly good feet, but they’d ratha’ crawl on their bellies.
They in the street, yellin’ and holler’in. Screamin’ at damn near everybody hopin’ pass.
Makes no sense. Why?
Don’t they kno’ they two good legs ‘ttached to two good feet?
“Use ya’ damn feet man!” I wanna scream. Poor wretches.
Makes me say grateful things to the Doctor. Cause then I sure’member. Me on my belly, then one the foot. It’s good I don’t fo’get.
Now I uses both my feet, and I walk with a stride. I’m faster than I ever was befoe.
When I was on my belly, I didn’t have love for an’one. Nope. Not a soul. On I crawled, mad at the worl’. I hated me.
After I met the Doctor, I got religion. An’ I tried to love people. But that hurts, all these people crawlin’ and hopin’ all over.
Sometimes I’d go see the Doctor. An’ He said if I kept showin’ up, I’d learn howda walk. But I had to hop first.
So I hopped. An’ hopped. An’ hopped. An’ I fell a bunch. The Doctor was good fo’ me when I saw Him, when I made time.
The more I tried to love people on dis’ one foot, more I fell.
Then one day I had e’nuff hopin’. I said Lord, what am I doin’ wrong? I’m so afraid, an’ ever’thang I try, I can’t do.
Bein’ a good Doctor, He swept me up in His big ‘ol arms. An’ He pointed at my other foot. “Time to learn to walk.”
“You have got to love you. No once else can do for you what I made for you alone to do for you.”
Just like that I put down that foot I never used befo’. ‘Twas shaky at first. Felt like tha’ groun’ was moving.
Now I walk mighty fine. I got that bal’ance- right, lef’, right, lef’.
Love Him, Love Me, Love Him, Love Me. An’now I can Love others.
No mo’ hopin’ and crawling, fallin’ and getting stuck‘n the mud.
