Guided - Broken Home pt.4

And so my life has been guided
 All the love I needed was provided
 And through my mother's sacrifices I saw where her life went
 To give more than birth to me, but life to me
 And this ain't one of the clichés about black women being strong
 Cause hell if you're weak, you're gone
 But life courage determined to do more than just survive
 And too many homes have a missing woman or man
 Without the feeling of missing love
 Maybe they are homes that are hurt
 But there are no real lives that hurt without reach, but not broken
 Unless the homes of soldiers stationed overseas
 Or lost in battles or broken
 Unless the homes of firemen, policemen, construction workers
 Seamen, railroad men, truckers, pilots
 Who lost their lives, but not for what their lives stood for
 Because men die, men lose, they are lost and they leave
 And so do women
 I came from what they called "A broken home"
 But they ever really called it "A house"
 They would have known how wrong they were
 We were working on our lives and our homes
 Dealing with what we had, not what we didn't have
 My life has been guided by women
 But because of them; I am a man
 God bless you mama, and thank you