Published:  January 11th, 2014 12:50 EST
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Care: Seeing More With Your Heart
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Care  A mother sits on her bed Crying Last night Her son stole her car Crashed it into a streetlight About a mile from their house He was driving drunk Again In the last three years He`s been arrested 12 times On three occasions He spent a few days in jail But every time ended the same way They sent him back home To her She`s asked for help Pleaded for some kind of intervention The answer is always the same There`s no money There`s no room There is no other place For him A wife spends another evening On the phone Calling hospital after hospital Her husband came home from work yesterday Fired again from another job He was stoned at work Again He is lying Passed out In the bedroom Covered in his own waste She could not get him into the shower She spends hour After hour Trying to find a single place That has a bed The answer is always the same There`s no money There`s no room There is no place For him An old man pushes his grocery cart Into an ally Slowly he starts building his shelter " A make-shift structure Of boxes and boards That he carries with him In the basket each day He used to have his own business He used to have his own home Everything changed When they found out his wife had cancer What money they had Disappeared in less than a year And soon after He lost his wife as well Tonight He tried to find a place at a shelter First one Than another The answer is always the same There`s no money There`s no room There is no place For him Three lives All sitting at the edge of desperation So many others Teetering on their very edge All of them in need of some kind of miracle All of them searching for the one thing That they need most Care Ed Roberts 12/27/13
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