Orphans on the streets
Crying out for love
Scrounging for a meal
And a warm place to sleep
Feeling lost and so afraid
Scanning for a friendly face
Hoping for someone to care
Wondering if their pain will end
Haunted by the memories
Of things they'd rather forget
Wishing for a miracle
Living on a Thread of Hope
The children are hungry
The children are crying
The children are beaten down,
Empty and cold,
The children are searching
For a safe refuge
And for a family
To have and to hold
Desperately wandering
Bruised and broken
Forced to turn a trick
Just to stay alive
Curious what tomorrow will bring
Treated like an animal
Stranded, lost, forgotten
Living on the streets of fear
Waiting for anyone to reach out
To lend them a helping hand
Hoping for a miracle
Living on a Thread of Hope
The children are hungry
The children are crying
The children are beaten down,
Empty and cold,
The children are searching
For a safe refuge
And for a family
To have and to hold
Trying to remember a time
When life offered promise
Struggling for something more
Dreaming of a new day
In the land of hope
I think it comes down to, are they really needy, or is it just a scam. With the profusion of scam artists in this day and age, it's hard to know who to trust. In today's world trust in short supply.
Like Jerry said, if we see a child alone on the street, we should do something and not just pass them by. I gave annually to Covenant House, a charity where tree children can find refuge from the mean streets.
Very nicely done is this wonderful poem of the forgetten children who stare at us as we pass and hope we will stop, give them money for food, or better still, take them home with us.
David Hightower’s lyrically expansive meditation on the whims of fate and the unpredictability of the human condition fill the pages of THE HANGING MAN DREAMS with thrilling music and mesmerizing imagery. Hightower’s richly infused voice echoes the e
Share
Print
Save
Follow
that every child of the streets comes to
know too well.
Ron
Sandie