Don't Worry

By Richard L. Provencher

Mon, 19 Dec 2022
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Don’t Worry

 

good folks – it really

ain’t so bad

living on the street

(except for rain & snow)

 

someone said

an old lady like me

should be home

with her grandkids.

 

You don’t know

the hell I went

through - clear over

the mountain.

 

Our life was not

so good

had to farm out

the children

 

love magnified

for them out there

somewhere

hope they figure out

I still love them.

 

 

 

Certificate PG
Poem
Homelessness - not just a word
Love

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Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Very poignant. So much unsaid, unknown. May she find some help and peace, and desire it.

(though I assume this is an imagined situation?) iRhiannon

 

Submitted by Richard L. Prov... on

Thank you for your thoughts, R This poem is a menu of 3 incidents - my 6,600 mile lone hitch-hiking journey from Rouyn-Noranda to Vancouver and back & two free-spirit similar journeys by homeless persons. -RLP 

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Submitted by Richard L. Prov... on

Thank you, Rhiannon. The thoughts I use come from everywhere and truths abide as sparks within my work.  -R

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Submitted by Tom Brown on

... be happy Love the song Richard, when it was just came out and very popular I was in orthopedics in traction got got really smashed up went wham bang into a stationary truck on the highway no time to stop. Zero. The youngster in the bed adjacent was playing it all the time. Helped pull me throughfor sure.

All the best! Tom

 

Submitted by Richard L. Prov... on

Thanks for the comment, Tom. So many accidents, Eh? I had a social services client many years ago who had full re-construction on his erased face from plowing about 50 feet across an asphalt highway - a motorcycle accident. He was so brave after his various surgeries. -R

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Submitted by Nolan on

That "traction" would be uncomfortable? &

 

Submitted by Richard L. Prov... on

Oh yes, indeed.

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