The Lost Souls

By hedgehog1

Sun, 11 Jun 2017
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Shadows of life pass silently into the night

Ghosts of men sliding, hovering, in the dark

Clutching their blankets round them like a shroud

Broken and bent their soul lost long ago

Drifting down burnt out with drugs and drink

Caught in the jungle of life where many are lost

Doorways and alleys is all life feeds them now

I go amongst these men to offer them salvation

I'm rejected by them all a deathly look in every face

The life they've chosen has been a dialogue with death

Neither nature earth nor God could help them now

These long lost souls they barely live but they are dead

You look into their eyes and you can trace

A dead soul's epitaph in every face

 

Edward (hedgehog1) 10.06.2017

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Comments

Submitted by london_calling79 on

Very grand writing. Almost biblical.

 

Submitted by hedgehog1 on

Good afternoon london_calling79

Thank you for your comment it is much appreciated.

Edward (hedgehog1)

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hello Edward,

this was such an astute look at people who have given up on life. Your words summed up the tragedy of desolation, that not even help could alleviate.

More power to your pen.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by hedgehog1 on

       Hello Jenny,

       Thank you so much for your comment.

       Life is very hard for those that for reasons we are not privy to, to have to live on the streets. My poem was written after observing a man of about fifty? with two sticks staring blankly at me as I walked past him.

        Edward

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Hello, Edward.
What you write is moving. It is an anguish to see those jaded and apparently too drugged or dead to heed or care or receive help.

Amazingly we do hear of those who man couldn't reach and yet, in mercy, God has yet woken up enough to look and pray to him and receive some measure of escape from the trouble fallen into.

But such a dangerous slide, and so sad to those who want to help. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by hedgehog1 on

Hello Rhiannon,

Thank you so much for your comment it is much appreciated.

What you write is so true. Cardiff has a Huggard centre which is a local charity for the homeless, which can only help a small number. The rest are left to their own devices.

We now have the added complication of "Spice" to deal with. Where will it all end?

Edward