I See

this is just a poem i wrote a sad thing i see every day

 

 I See

 

I see the decay around...

i see people turned away, lying broken in the alleys

by beasts with razor smiles, cement chests and stacks of greed

 

i see the injustice every day...

people lying on filthy asphalt upon broken shards

of broken dreams

 

and my heart aches when i see them there dirty, thin and wanting

needing

Some sort of understanding that they rarely...

receive

 

i look into the eyes of the downtrodden, ill and homeless man with

scraggled beard, dirt upon a broken face

and i see...

 

i see you there for there you once were

and i would worry wonder if you were...

okay

 

i ached i cried to think of you sleeping behind some abandoned

building...

abandoned wasteland of abandoned dreams...

and hopes

 

and now you're gone... 

but i still see you in the wanting, sad and glazed eyes of the forgotten, the sad, the helpless the homeless

 

so when i pass that fellow soul yearning for just one...

piece of human kindness or the

privelege of eye contact

 

i take whatever change i have and give it readily for...

i see the need the want, the great human tragedy

 

the fallacy of apathy without action

 

and i see you when i see them...

 

i see you there again on the streets

my sister, blood of my blood, flesh of my flesh

heart of my heart...marrow in my bones, warmth in my...

soul

 

and i miss you but i have to smile

 

when i pass along a dollar or two...

 

because I see

 

Author's Note

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