What's it like to be homeless?
Because you're combless
Body aches
The ground is foamless
Nowhere to go
Means you roam less
Your gleam is gone
Dull and chromeless
When not in Rome
Do as the Romeless
Collateral damage for the Western life
Nobody wants to know your plight;
Unless you got kids, a job
A house, a car and a wife
There's no pie left, for your slice
Reality cuts deep, like a knife
Many are a pay-check light
From being labeled a social blight
Body aches
The ground is foamless
Nowhere to go
Means you roam less
Your gleam is gone
Dull and chromeless
When not in Rome
Do as the Romeless
Collateral damage for the Western life
Nobody wants to know your plight;
Unless you got kids, a job
A house, a car and a wife
There's no pie left, for your slice
Reality cuts deep, like a knife
Many are a pay-check light
From being labeled a social blight
Mr. good shoes said, get a job
All his life, been a working slob;
He frowns on your luck after dark;
At Queens Park Station, near Queens Park
A lady with a good bag threw spare change
But our loonie went down the drain
Hunger pangs
On a belly descend
Cold subway fangs
Passerby, ain't no friend
Ate a bag of day old donuts
On a sour stomach, made you go nuts
On the ground, picking up butts
Your day is spent riding the bus
The local library, ain't no home
No fixed address, no books on loan
Security chased you, from the Eaton Centre
Because you're neither a homeowner,
Nor a renter
Those with no home
Are labeled - offender
Anyone, can become, mentally ill
Does that mean, your life, should go downhill?
Some are elderly, some are young
Yet many drop, an economic rung
Many are sent to the house of detention
In admin seg, with no medical attention
Others are homeless, and under housed
Living under bridges, where they caroused
By homelessness, is your apathy aroused?
Like the so called values, our elected espoused
Housing needs to be more affordable
Using subsidies remaining portable
So existing housing is supportable
So the lives of many are not deplorable
Canada's less progressive, than Portugal
Where drug decriminalization became historical
But our loonie went down the drain
Hunger pangs
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Cold subway fangs
Passerby, ain't no friend
Dope sick feeding time
You're on the mend
Spare change for your veins
This hurt won't pretend
You're on the mend
Spare change for your veins
This hurt won't pretend
Light the way
Like flame to paraffin
Chase the day
With sweet Ms. Heroin
Nod your head
Scratch your nose
In the darkness
No one knows
How the loneliness
And despair just grows
No homeless shelter
Will pass for a home
When winters cold, cuts to the bone
Or summer's, sweltering heat, has grown
Like flame to paraffin
Chase the day
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Nod your head
Scratch your nose
In the darkness
No one knows
How the loneliness
And despair just grows
No homeless shelter
Will pass for a home
When winters cold, cuts to the bone
Or summer's, sweltering heat, has grown
Ate a bag of day old donuts
On a sour stomach, made you go nuts
On the ground, picking up butts
Your day is spent riding the bus
The local library, ain't no home
No fixed address, no books on loan
Security chased you, from the Eaton Centre
Because you're neither a homeowner,
Nor a renter
Those with no home
Are labeled - offender
Anyone, can become, mentally ill
Does that mean, your life, should go downhill?
Some are elderly, some are young
Yet many drop, an economic rung
Many are sent to the house of detention
In admin seg, with no medical attention
Others are homeless, and under housed
Living under bridges, where they caroused
By homelessness, is your apathy aroused?
 |
| Two outdoor deaths prompt Toronto to review how it treats the homeless |
Housing needs to be more affordable
Using subsidies remaining portable
So existing housing is supportable
So the lives of many are not deplorable
Canada's less progressive, than Portugal
Where drug decriminalization became historical
Today's Canadian values are less exportable!
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