Some folk say God loves a sinner go tell that to Katie Kane <br />With a face that's cracked and wrinkled from the biting winds and rain <br />She is one of life's great losers on herself she's made life tough <br />Shabby dressed and looking weary from long nights of sleeping rough. <br /> <br />Her hair once dark as raven's wing is white now white as snow <br />And her blue eyes once so beautiful have lost their beauty glow <br />She looks like a living skeleton wan and bent up like a hoop <br />With fingers locked from arthritis and her shoulders in a droop. <br /> <br />Who'd believe this wizened woman was a beauty on her day <br />Who'd believe she once bloomed brightly like a blushing rose of May? <br />She once bloomed like flower of Summer like a lovely Summer rose <br />But now she's just a worn out woman dressed in shabby crinkled clothes. <br /> <br />Just a dejected drug addict, hair dishevelled, destitute <br />Just a faded flower of Summer, a forsaken prostitue <br />She was chaste and she was comely till she met with drug pushing men <br />And they got her hooked on hard drugs put her on the road to sin. <br /> <br />She earned lots of money as street walker in her better days gone by <br />But nowadays the majority of men ignore her so few from her pleasure buy <br />She says do you want a good time mister for twenty dollars with you I will lie <br />But will you go to hell you withered crone is the usual reply. <br /> <br />Just a poor and feeble female slowly shuffling down the street <br />Who'd believe she once bloomed lovely fair as man could wish to meet? <br />And who'd believe she's only fifty this woman gaunt and gray <br />She looks much nearer to ninety than her fifty first birthday?<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/social-reject/
