Shadow Behind Our Walls
Location
In the darkness they lie
In the places we hide
Not wanted nor desired
On the streets in the cold
Where the piercing sidewalk behind the thundering street becomes a hotel bed
Under the melting heat
Walking for hours in vain desperately searching for their last hope to keep from slowly lying dead
Why must it be this way
Must they be punished for being a lost soul bound in poverty
Where is their helping hand reaching out to them
Where is there someone to pick them up and dust them off
Someone to give them hope that this world is changing
That this generation won’t just sit here and shuffle our problems under the rug
We help those in other countries and forget the ones in our own backyard
One only has to drive around the corner and there is poverty sitting under the street light
Why wait? Change the world the way you want it to go
Pick up a bottle of water, grab a blanket no longer used, bring the food that’s just going to go to waste
Because someone out there is in need
Let’s be the voice, let’s be the way of the now
Because something needs to change
Let the walls be broken that tries to hide them
Let the light shine down on the ones in shadows
Let our actions create the path to the better future