<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575665" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Children Of Poverty Street</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At least spare a thought for the children the children of Poverty Street<br>They are homeless as young teenagers and against the odds they must compete<br>Their parents serving time for robbery and narcotic offences and most of their role models in jail<br>Their circumstance of birth is a huge mark against them the poor young people destined to fail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They steal for to buy food, drugs and alcohol on Poverty Street life is tough<br>Too young much too young to be homeless without shelter and sleeping rough<br>They are pushed to the social fringes the young people society disown<br>Ignored by the Government Bureaucracies and to the Police only known.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who could envy them their existence those born into cruel circumstance<br>The Gods are completely against them of success they do not stand a chance<br>For them life is such a great battle they must battle their ghosts of despair<br>They don't even dream of the good life to them life is very unfair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You who waffle on of life's choices with you talk is always so cheap<br>Bet you were not homeless at thirteen and on a park bench had to sleep<br>You would not talk of life's choices if you had to steal for to eat<br>If you felt alone and abandoned like the children of Poverty Street.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=575665" data-title="The Children Of Poverty Street de Francis Duggan" data-description="At least spare a thought for the children the children of Poverty Street They are homeless as young teenagers and against the odds they must compete Their parents serving time for robbery and narcotic offences and most of their role models in jail..."></div> </div> </div>

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