The invisible man (poetry)

You walk pass me on the street

Not ever taking notice of me

You make sure if you do our eyes never meet

You snatch up your child

Tighten the grip on you purse

Your pace quickens ..

No looking back you will do ..

As you walk faster hoping I didn't see you

I sit there in the cold

All alone

With no where to call a home

I used to have a life

I used to have a wife

You think I am lazy

You call me a bum

You act like I am not human

Like I have no feelings

I sit here

Ashamed

Scared and alone ..

Totally embarrassed I have no home

For my life wasn't always this way

Oh how well I remember the better days

Back in the day I fought in a war ..

A soldier I was .. so healthy and so proud for my country I would have died

I came back home and lost my wife

Someone drinking and driving took her life ..

I lost my child that same day ..

She was in the car ... I sat with .. in hopes she wouldn't lose her life.

The hospital bills they piled up

Paying them I had no luck

The cemetery was costly too ..

Who would have thought ..

They were so young ..

Taken from me ..

Now I am supposed to carry on?

I lost my job ..

I must confess

I had a hard time working because I was depressed

I lost my job ..

Who would have known.

Shortly after I lost my home

My home was nothing more than an empty grave

So cold .. so empty .. and now in solitude I remain

So I sit here on the street

Wondering each any everyday if I will eat

Why not try for a job you say ..

I have ..

I do ..

But there's one thing you haven't thought thru ..

How are they going to contact me?

I have no phone and no address here on the street

So you walk by me ..

You judge me

You laugh at me ..

And poke fun of me

Just try a day to be me ..

Walk a mile in my shoes ..

Then tell me what you would do?

So I sit here ..

I have given up ..

I wonder how long it will take for me ..

I want to join my child and my wife ..

But it is a mortal sin to take my life.

So I sit here and cry

Watching all the happy people as they pass by

I see you with your child ..

I remember how it used to be ..

As a sit here daydreaming ...

I pray god have mercy on me ..