Last Chance Hotel
Last Chance Hotel
Sleeping in my car,
temperatures so cold.
No money in my pockets,
everything was sold.
Nowhere left to rest my head,
doors once open now are shut.
under a bridge, out in the woods,
or make a cardboard hut.
The cold cruel world
is all that’s left,
averted eyes
don’t look at me.
They just walk by,
turning their heads,
pretending
not to see.
Street life is unforgiving,
hard gutters will demean.
Memories don’t help here,
or places where I've been.
Thank God for those two fellows,
Bill W. and Doctor Bob.
Cause it was in their actions
that I no longer have to sob.
The rooms where soon provided,
for people living in this hell.
The price to enter everything,
at the last chance hotel.
Copyright © 2007 Ronald J. Edwards
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Great poem! And as a point
Great poem!
And as a point of interest, government estimates place the numbers of homeless veterans in America at 250,000 on any given day.
Regards,
Lamebull
:)
Ronald J. Edwards
Trinity Ink
http://trinityinkexperiencestrengthandhope.blogspot.com
William,
A shame how the the general public considers a person in this situation. It is as if by looking the other way that they either do not exist or that that problem will just go away. thanks for reading and your comment.
Ron
ron
Sounds like this poem was healing {if it was meant to be you} it probably felt good to write about it. i see it was in 2007. great job, on it all.
Linda
Long time ago
Ronald J. Edwards
Trinity Ink
http://trinityinkexperiencestrengthandhope.blogspot.com
but feels like yesterday that this in fact did happen and to me. Think about how fire burns away whatever is left in it leaving the remains, the ash, the basic who and what we are. I thank god I found my last chance hotel and from the ash became another man. thank you linda for being there :)
Ron
you
became the phoenix, you rise out of the ashes renewed. I like this one. Renewal, rebirth, forgiveness all are great themes. raskin
ron
You write such moving poems. I enjoy reading them.