The Homeless

Story ID:	3498
Written by:	Bobby O'neill Mitchum (bio, contact, other stories)
Story type:	Poem
Location:	Phenix City Alabama U.S.A.
Year:	2008
Person:	anyone

There is a homeless person
who wanders down our street
sometimes he digs in garbage cans
lookin for food to eat,

i know his life cannot be happy
and it is a living hell
and the only place that he is safe
is in our city jail.

I know that you have seen them
in our cities and our towns
the lonely and forgotten ones
the insane the trodden down.

Sometimes they approach you
an ask you for a dime
but you hurry right on by them
for you havent got the time,

to spend just a moment
with these citizens of the street
for you think that they are dirty
and they dont look to neat.

But please consider these words
as you hurriedly walk on by,
"There but for the grace of God,
so might walk I"