He lay helpless in the gutter so many people walking by he was treated me as if invisible he could see them avert their eyes was it his tattered clothing the gaunt face of hunger he wore they ignored his plea for help what has made them immune to their hearts you would swear they were born without one how is it that they have so little care for those who have needs that they can no longer provide for themselves so many who's only crime was that they were the working poor sentenced to life on the streets the homeless who have fallen through the cracks here in this land of plenty this country that spends so much in support of other countries while criminalizing the results of their own greed here in the richest nation on Earth