Object lesson

narrative verse

 

 

Object lesson.

 

Nobody cares, nobody dares.

Show sympathy to such as me.

I’m just a bum, an unwelcome

 reminder that you too may come.

 

To know the depths of misery.

Although you do not want to see.

Avert your eyes as you pass by

You can ignore my plaintive cry.

 

I too was rich and would not see

that bums deserved some sympathy.

But fate stepped in and fate taught me.

Disaster can strike randomly.

 

Reducing men to penury.

From great success to poverty.

Remember this it could be you

 here begging for a buck or two.

 

Just pocket change you can well spare

 Can make my life easier to bear

 I’m still a man who needs to eat

 although I’m living on the street.

 

You can pass by disdainfully

I learnt my lesson painfully

 and so in time my friend could you

in the same way that I had to.

 

I would much rather earn my way

But fate took all I had away.

She sprang it on me by surprise

 perhaps in order to chastise.

 

me for my inability.

 To show a little charity.

 to those who had much less than me

I suffered enforced bankruptcy.

 

 I’m not the bum you choose to see.

Today you can look down on me

in the same way I chose to do.

when I was as blind as you.

 

14-Nov-08

 

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