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"At first it is not so bad...
...the freedom, that's the way you see it.
Then the other things start happening."


The consequences of freedom...

"You tell yourself,
I live on the street,
this is what happens,
bad things too...
can't let IT get you down?"


The consequences of freedom...

Free...

To be or not to be...

beaten
*****
ripped-off
arrested

humiliated
tortured
­manipulated
hunted

abused
sad


To Be or Not to Be...

That is  

'A'

question
                      -for a Street Kid?
Have you lived on the street?
Noelle Marie Jan 2015
Happy New Year!
365 days of blank, clean slate
A fresh start
Positive! Smiles! Resolutions!
New me
Without you
Happy New Year kid!
You have no parents
No Mum now if I ever really had her
Always out of reach
No Dad if he was ever really mine at all
Suitcases always packed, bus ticket at the ready
Living in a lake of fear
I have love, I have family, adopted
Adopted me as I adopted them
Temporary
Until a better offer comes,
Prettier, smarter, babies, husbands, whole families again
And I am replaced
Thrown out, blotted out of photos
Happy New Year kid!
You're on your own in the big wide world.

— The End —