Mental Health And The Streets Poem by James McLain

Life can be difficult for those who seek shelter
in the open on the streets,
shelter on or off of the streets life is if the brain works fine
if it's fine they would not.

Other countries where they wander aboveground
until they become terrorists
and nothing is done here except to train the young against.

Schizophrenia and or manic depression,
this kind of life is the biblical life of living hell.
Individuals with untreated mental illness homeless
are equivocal to the ones whom dine out every week at the same place
as they look out the window warily eating their food
as the others forage through dumpsters.