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I Walk The Streets

I walk the streets, danger I see.
Hope tonight God looks after me.
Desperate, nowhere else to turn.
I walk the streets, a living to earn.

Mouths to feed and a habit too.
A broken past, left black and blue.
I get looks of hate, dirt and sneer.
These streets I walk, I walk in fear.

With envy I see other girls pass by.
To be just like them so hard I try.
A car pulls up under the dim light.
I hope God looks after me tonight.
 

Concorde (for Muhammad Ali) ►

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Lynn Dye

Wed 1st Jun 2016 09:18

I like your poem, Mike, it resonates to me a sort of "there but for the grace of God, go I". We are all humans at the end of the day.

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