What life is this?????.........

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  • Soldiers
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  • Army
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  • Streets
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  • Homeless
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  • Pride

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    Just trying to highlight the problem of homelessness among the ex-military personnel in the UK

    What life is this?????.........

     From a soldier who had served nine years, 
    Every day has brought along more tears, 
    And now I've lost all hopes and fears, 
    What life is this I lead? 

    My head I lay upon the floor, 
    In the shadows of a cold shop door, 
    I cannot take this anymore, 
    What life is this I lead? 

    A sleeping bag, a cardboard box, 
    Scruffy clothes and unkempt locks, 
    Surviving like an urban fox, 
    What life is this I lead? 

    Comments made as you stroll on by, 
    A dirty look or hurtful sigh, 
    I turn my head and start to cry, 
    What life is this I lead? 

    I'm trying hard to start again, 
    As I walk along in the pouring rain, 
    My heart has never known such pain, 
    What life is this I lead?

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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.
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