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Homeless

What can be believed living in the street?

He could only find peace

From the pages covering his feet

While those with good mothers fight

Over who’s wrong and who’s right

The corner dust forms a memorial

On a vacant Victorian seat

 

Their words died before they became deeds

Nothing mattered of his past

It could not fill his needs

He tried not think of her

There was nothing he could offer

Through his piercings he bled

But there was no water for his seeds

 

He looked to the heavens for paintings

But dreams in cloudless skies

Cannot be imagined when it’s raining

The corner was his

But it’s no place to live

Our faces are the measure of his worth

For he knows who he is displeasing

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Written by
mark-lecuona
American
Published
Oct 23, 2014
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#homeless
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