GIF Image Map
archive
image: Art button - Link to Cafe Zero
CAFE NAVIGATION BAR
CAFE FOUR
CAFE NAVIGATION ARROWS
LEFT NAVIGATION BAR
POET CATEGORY NAVIGATION BAR

i Poet.com and The Homeless Poets' Cafe

previous/next poem

Will I?

Bonnie Briggs
copyright © 1999; Toronto, Canada
I will never be homeless,
It won't happen to me.
I will never be homeless,
I'm doing so well, don't you see?

I have a good job, a nice house and a car,
I have everything I need to go far.
I am not like those Welfare bums,
To whom prosperity never comes.

You know, the ones who don't want to work,
Any kind of physical labour, they shirk.
All they want to do is drink,
Some are not clean, and they stink.

Then, I see a man, lying in the street,
A tattered coat around him and no shoes on his feet.
But, I sense that something is wrong,
That somehow, this man does not belong.

So, I decide to stop to say hello,
And ask him why he fell so low.
He once worked on a street called Bay,
Making good money every day.

Then, one day his job was gone.
He was told, "just go on home."
He soon just didn't care,
His purpose in life no longer there.

He lost his family, his home, and his car.
In just a few months, he fell so far.
So here he was, on the street,
With a tattered coat around him and no shoes on his feet.

Then I saw the lines on his face and the pain in his eyes,
I will never be homeless, will I?


Cafe 5 Cafe 3 Cafe 8 Cafe 7 Cafe 6 Cafe 5 Cafe 4 Cafe 3 Cafe 2 Cafe 1 Link to Guestbook Link to Contacts page Link to FAQ page Link to GIVE-GET page Link to Submissions page Link to Archive Link to About Us page