Best Street Urchin Poems

Another year of  
Homelessness, 
Joblessness, 
And abject poverty. 
Year after year
He wanders about the slums
Shoeless, 
Trudging through mud 
With bruised feet 
Life's uncomfortable; 
A bed of roses 
Full of thorns 
Pricking his weather-beaten skin
When he lies down to sleep at dusk. 
Each daybreak, a...

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