You sit there in your lexus and glance my way you never look twice at the bum standing on the highway what a waste of perfectly good space I hear you say on your celluar phone you smirk and you laugh at my rugged filthy appearence people like me should dry up and disappear what good are we to society, just a great big embarrasment you say all this but do you really know all the pain and hell that i go through, and suffering you yell out get a job you worthless bum easy to say..task not so easily done who wants to hire someone who has no home I dont want your pity or your money just your understanding dont point or stare at me because deep down Im the same person as you I wasnt alway like this really i wasnt I to had a family and a job My wife got sick and i had to raise my daughter all alone I couldnt work my sixty hours a week anymore so they layed me off, I had a daughter who needed me more we moved around and I searched high and low for a job that could get us out of this hole Two days before her seventeen birthday my daughter was killed in a car accident my life went down hill from there so you see me being on the streets is no mere coincendence I lost my job because i was suffering to much i lost my house and my car cause i couldnt pay my life became empty and there was nothing left that any one could say so I roamed the streets and thats where I stay maybe I am a waste of perfectly good space but deep down Im just like you the same red blood that flows through your veins flows through mine so please do me one favor and please keep this in mind when you see me there is one thing you must not do dont judge me cause I could be you.
Reason for writing:
When I lived in Austin, Tx there was this man that I met he was desperatly trying to put his life back together and no one would help him because he came from the streets..such hipocrits we are..telling the bums to get a job yet we dont try to help..something to think about
Birth sign: Aries
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