<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=449725" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dwellers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was known as the street of despair, where the homeless<br>And destitute lived- but no one cared! <br>They all turned their backs<br>It wasn’t hard to do, because it<br>Wasn’t anyone that they knew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They lived in abandoned buildings<br>with no heat or water, but respect for each other<br>And their own type of order.<br>They still walked with a sense of pride<br>And on each other they did rely…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They created their own commune<br>And each child had their own room.<br>The men would go out and look<br>For jobs that would pay by the day.<br>They built a playground where the<br>Children could play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lawn maintenance and painting jobs<br>Could always be found, and at days end<br>They’d lay their money down.<br>Although they did not live<br>The same as you and me<br> But They lived comfortably.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They would buy five gallons of water<br>So that they could sponge bathe<br>For their lives had completely changed.<br>They bought portable stoves<br>So that the women could cook.<br>A little ingenuity was all it took.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They would buy clean clothes for<br>The children to wear, for that was<br>The only thing for which they cared.<br>A proper education was their goal<br>They would not allow it to be taken away<br>Exchanged, or stole.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They lived and worked together with one<br>Thing in mind, that these children would<br>Live better in a different place and time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These are the true DWELLERS<br>That you don’t often hear about<br>For there is no one there to tell<br>Their stories and scream and shout.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louis+Rams">Louis Rams</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=449725" data-title="The Dwellers de Louis Rams" data-description="It was known as the street of despair, where the homeless And destitute lived- but no one cared! They all turned their backs It wasn’t hard to do, because it Wasn’t anyone that they knew. They lived in abandoned buildings with no heat or wat..."></div> </div> </div>

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