20 years ago
I had no place to call home
And was “Filth on the street”.
People would walk by
Not understanding
Why
A young man so seemingly
Vibrant could end up
With no place of his own.
Much later
I would find myself employed
With my own domicile
A seemingly impossible task.
Now I
See the so-called
“Vagrants” on the street as
Former shadows of myself
“What could have been”
I see myself
In each of them.