For them life is an uphill battle the Children of the lesser Gods <br />Yet they are the greatest of survivors they survive against all of the odds <br />From broken homes and of poor parents the future for them looking bleak <br />Just to survive in their environment they cannot be mentally or physically weak, <br />As young teenagers on the street and homeless their sorry lives only lead them to crime <br />They become addicted to narcotics and they look worn and old in their prime <br />They spend most of their time in prison like their parents as parents they are doomed to fail <br />You do not reform a person by sending that person to jail, <br />If they feel the whole World is against them one cannot blame them for feeling this way <br />In their circumstance of birth and in their parents they never did have any say, <br />A minority of those born to poor parents against all of the odds succeed <br />Despite their less privileged childhood a successful life they do lead <br />But the majority of the homeless street kids they turn to drugs and live by crime <br />And some of them by the Law wanted and some of them in jail serving time.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-homeless-street-kids/
