Hope for you

Your life damn near frittered away

Kept whole as best we could making no deduction

We cradled you that day 

Our human face alive embracing harm reduction 

Day in day out to the needle exchange where 

To swop the things that brought your pain

Dirty, shabby, seedy and stripped bare

For more of the same, with little gain

Of the insight or the guts you need to find the spark 

Yes to appreciate your life and the pain of others 

Who wait with torches ready to light the dark

Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers

Without boast or confidence or ambition for you 

Faithfully ,lovingly they wait in vain

And then it comes you, you ,you  give hope to those who 

Never dared to hope again 

My child you hear the mother sob 

Tears from others who elated whirl and dance

You, who was never cast out return and thereby rob 

Those mocking disbelievers of second chance