Street Child

-Street Child- 
 
 
Street child, once smiled, when he wasn’t deprived     
Street child, once laughed, when he was a schoolchild
Waking up knowing he has nowhere to go
Getting up knowing he has nothing to show                                                                                  
 
The poor boy, he’s just staying for today  
Nowhere to call home and no one to hold on  
He comes and goes, but never stays  
 
 On the street, he lays  
On the street, he begs  
On the street, he dreams  
 
He dreams of his mother  
Whose voice seems so far away  
He dreams of his father  
Who drinks it away   
 
 
We take everything for granted 
While this boy is stranded
In the battle, he can't escape
Feeling it will never be okay    
 
 
People walking past him as if he were a ghost  
He’s not even approached   
Just stared and laughed at   
As if he were a fraud  
 
 
Along the streets, he walks  
His head down, hiding the falling tears  
Along the streets, he runs  
From the man who once called him dear    
 
Abandoned child in the dumpster  
On this cold night, all he did was shudder  
Night and day all alone  
Like an outcast with nowhere to belong  
 
The poor boy, he’s just staying for today  
Nowhere to call home and no one to hold on  
He comes and goes, but never stays  
 
Forgotten by the mother  
Abused by the father  
Drugs, guilt, and rejection  
   
 They left him nowhere to go  
Nowhere to sleep, nowhere to eat   
And sucked his soul so deep under the ocean 
All he feels like now  is drowning 
 
Looking at the children  
Whose lives seem so far from his  
As they hold their parent’s hands  
They just don’t seem to understand  
 
The poor boy, he’s just staying for today  
Nowhere to call home and no one to hold on  
He comes and goes, but never stays  
 
 All I ask from you is to look around you 
Change your views like leaves change colors 
Help stop the falling tears 
And maybe then, and only then, will the poor boy laugh again