TRAMPING THE STREETS #2
I see you looking at me as the ‘low life’
Did you know I had a wife?
Where everything was full of strife
Yes I was once like you
Walking the streets, pavements
Making all the payments
Daft as it may seem!
I see you looking at me as though I am the
‘Scum of the earth’
It’s not always our fault
We jumped higher over that vault
Yes we gambled
Gambled it all away
And not monetary
We took many chances
“Hey you and
your glances”
“If you took the time to
look around”
“You’re no better than I”
“So take a look in my eye!”
“It’s weathered, battered
and shattered”
“They’ve looked better and
nothing mattered”
“But I am abiding my time”
“I don’t need your nickel or
dime!”
“I thought this life would
be free”
“No not this tramping the
streets”
“My previous life”
“My friends and family”
“They deserted me when things went wrong”
“Their treasured
possessions, obsessions”
“Obsessed, obsessed,
obsessed!”
“Till there was nothing
left”
“I’ve joined the queues”
“Paid my dues”
“Yes paid my dues”
“I owe you nothing!”
“And you owe me nothing”
“Well except for some
understanding”
“See I’m upstanding, not
bent and buckled”
“Nor raw at the knuckles”
“I keep my faith, hope and
belief”
“That one day there will be
some relief”
“Relief from this ‘Tramping
The Streets’”
“So before you judge us
think on”
“We are not all that it
seems”
“Look beyond the shadows,
faces, and our sleeping places”
“We are human just like you,
with feelings!”
© Teresa Joseph Franklin
8th December 2014
All Rights Reserved
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