Homeless Poem by Vincent LeVine
Homeless
No one knows your glory
No one knows your shame
No one's heard your story
And no one knows your name
No one's gonna ask you
No one will reply
No one's gonna hear your truth
And no one hears your lie
No one knows your troubles
No one feels your pains
No one feels your heartbeat
As the blood pumps through your veins-
Until the world feels compassion
For a life that's gone astray
Until giving is in fashion
There is no other way...
No one warms your blankets
No one draws your sheets
No one offers comfort
As you wander through the streets
It's not the life you've chosen
Or what you had in mind
To live amongst the homeless
And beg beside the blind
No one knows your glory
No one knows your shame
No one's heard your story
And no one knows your name-
Until the world feels compassion
For a life that's gone astray
Until giving is in fashion
There is no other way...
There were tall buildings and people-packed streets and avenues all around. By 7: 00 am, droves of people had already spilled out of the Port Authority bus terminal and were rushing to their offices. Women in full dress and make-up, wearing track shoes for a quicker commute by foot, huffed by me... But what I was most struck by were the homeless people, dressed in multiple layers of discarded clothing, living in cardboard houses on the sidewalks. Some with eyes sewn shut; othersunbathed, hungry and suffering from dementia, or at least massive confusion. I always spared them some change even though my native NY co-workers called me a sap...
Two years later, after moving back to Massachusetts, I woke in the middle of the night and scratched this out like it had been programmed into me by a higher power.
The rhymes in this one seem to flow naturally, Vincent, with the sense and logic intact. This one, I think, could be made into a song. -GK
A powerful poem describing the plight of the homeless! Thanks for sharing!
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5/12/2024 7:05:11 AM # 1.0.0.1119
No one knows your troubles No one feels your pains No one feels your heartbeat......your heartbeats for the poor....... such sublime thoughts you have dear poet. God bless u for writing this poem for the sake of the poor. tony