I once lived in a beautiful house

Silver plates and spoons for every meal

I once had no worries at all

It was all too perfect, all too real

Soon enough, the walls that once kept me warm

Vanished, unexpected I could’ve sworn

Now I live in a cardboard home

Freezing on cold winter days

Now I struggle to find food

Many times that the dumpster betrays

Empty soul and empty mind, I crave

Waiting for someone to come save

I once had many shirts and jeans

To choose from every day

I once ran with the wind in the meadow

Embracing the warm glow of the sun’s ray

Thanksgiving feasts

We ate like beasts

Now I only own a pair of shirt and jeans

Ripped and tattered with brown spots below

Now I only shower once a month

No warm baths, but with frozen snow

I beg for spare change holding out my hand

At day’s end a penny if I’d be damned

And once

Someone passed by

And he held

An apple pie

But when he saw me

He just looked away.

And every day when I sleep

Tears gush out

But I keep wishing

And wishing that someone

Will take me

Away from this pain

Away from my misery

Please, all I beg

Is for someone to look

And take this pain away

The pain in my heart

Tears me apart.