<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=362907" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Madonna of the Streets</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For many years, she walked the streets <br>and her body she sold. <br>It was a living, she said, <br>but deep within her, <br>there was a heart of gold. <br>The story goes they called her <br>the Madonna of the streets. <br>If anyone needed help, <br>her outstretched hand was always there. <br>She rescued many young souls <br>from the streets of despair. <br>Her neighbours turned their nose up <br>at her living ways, <br>but took a long second look <br>the day the lord took her away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A child was playing in the road, <br>the car they did not see, <br>but this woman of the night <br>saw what was happening there. <br>There was a screech of brakes, <br>a child screaming for his mum, <br>and a twisted broken body <br>underneath the wheels of the car. <br>When the crowds began to gather, <br>the tragedy became very clear. <br>The girl had been passing, <br>saw what was happening there, <br>had sacrificed her own life <br>for that child fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The neighbours, <br>who had shunned her, <br>now began to weep openly <br>for that loathsome girl <br>that lived down the street, <br>and whose friends had nicknamed her, <br>the Madonna of the streets. <br>Many learned a lesson <br>on that fateful day. <br>That was not to judge to harshly <br>those they do not really know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(1 July 2007)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=362907" data-title="Madonna of the Streets de David Harris" data-description="For many years, she walked the streets and her body she sold. It was a living, she said, but deep within her, there was a heart of gold. The story goes they called her the Madonna of the streets. If anyone needed help, her outstretched han..."></div> </div> </div>

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