New York Subway

by The Poet Behind The Poems   Feb 21, 2012


The broken glass tears through my bare feet.
Ten newspapers covering my unmitigated body,
Do they not see that I am part of humanity?

The dirt under my fingernails tells the story of desperation,
you can not see the pain unless you look through
my lifeless eyes and walk in my corroded shoes.

I see you walk everyday;
I see your elegance, your beauty inhabitating my heart,
but you look straight through me as if I was but nothing

To you this is a small part of your life, just a shortcut to the path you walk, to me it's my past, present and future. For my life is to be in this subway...
Forever...

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  • 11 years ago

    by Hannah Lizette

    I love this piece so much. Others judge and walk right past homeless people without even a care in the world... acting like they are too good to even be near them. It's heartbreaking... they don't know that person or their story. Most think homeless people are just on drugs or alcoholics, which some are... but there are others that just are unfortunate, lost their job or their home...etc. You never know... sometimes all it takes is a kind word or a few dollars to lift their spirits.

    You are an amazing writer, you look at things from such a great perspective and write it beautifully.
    5/5

  • 12 years ago

    by KayKay

    I like the ending of it. Good job.

  • 12 years ago

    by Lifeless Doll

    I really love the story behinf this, I think your poetry is a little changed but in a very good sense, your becoming better and better everyday :)

  • 12 years ago

    by xoxShorteexox

    Wow, the ending was perfect and the scene was very eye opening on how some people want to be looked at instead of looked through.

    Well-written poems.
    5/5

    -Heather

  • 12 years ago

    by DirtRoadGirl

    You are an amazing writer!!! I am sooo jealouse of you ability to take any random thing and turn it inti something beautiful and emotional. You make serious things seem ten times more serious and you do so with so much talent. Incredibly amazing.

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