Strangers Sleeping on The Streets

Strangers Sleeping on The Streets

written by: Jake Cosmos Aller

@Jakecaller

In these sad days of the pandemic
We see the homeless people
Men, women, and children

The strangers sleeping on the streets
In the richest country
In the planet

Millions were driven homeless
The strangers sleeping on the streets
As rents go up and up

Jobs disappearing
Coronavirus spreading
The strangers sleeping in the streets

Social safety nets unraveling
Forcing more people
Into dire poverty

There but for the grace of God
We do not say to the Strangers
sleeping in the streets

As we walk by
The nameless men, women, children
The strangers sleeping in the streets

We seldom wonder
How they got there
And whether we can help them
The strangers sleeping on the streets

All too often
We walk on by
Consumed by own problems
Having little empathy
For the strangers
sleeping on the street

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Jake Cosmos Aller

John (“Jake”) Cosmos Aller is a novelist, poet, and former Foreign Service officer having served 27 years with the U.S. State Department serving in over ten countries including Korea, Thailand, India, Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Spain. He has traveled to over 50 countries, and 49 out of 50 states. He speaks Korean, Thai, Spanish and studied Chinese, Hindi and Arabic.

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