I am the forgotten, once destined for another life
See my sadness, see my shame, see my scams.
I am street-wise
I am tramp
I use alcohol to drown away my sorrows
I have been known to feed from trash-bins to survive.
I am scourge
I am wasted
I use drugs to forget what I could have been
I have been known to steal and kill to survive.
I am beggar
I am deceiver
I use a sign and ask for money on every corner
I use gimmicks--I use lies--I used to be.
I am hobo
I am bum
Sometimes I have mental problems, I live off the State
I can be dangerous--I am a paid liability.
I am useless
I am drifter
Sometimes I am disabled, I live off the Government
I pay no taxes--I live off you.
I am unwelcomed
I am vagrant
You look the other way, but I am here
You drive past, yet I wave 
You care less, but I exist.
I am transient
I am derelict
I am everything you aspire not to be
And I care not that you don't care for me
I stopped caring a long time ago
Because...
I was once like you
Now I am forgotten!




inspired by the poem, The Wandering Poet, by Psycho Wolf1990.