"A Lost Child"

by Pen Name- "She Who Walks Among Stars"

I am lost, I am all alone,
 I have no parents, no one understands,
I walk the streets,
I have no home.

 Why do people stare at me?
Why are they afraid of me?
I am just a lost child, I’m so alone.
Why don’t they help me?
Why doesn’t someone take me home?

 I cry at night as I sit in the park.
My face is dirty, my cloths are torn.
I wash them in the river,
When no one is around.

 I tried some drugs one night,
So I wouldn’t feel the pain.
I never felt so happy,
But I really felt ashamed.

 I’m just a lost child.
No one understands.
My parents threw me out,
And now I walk alone.

 The only time I feel happy,
Is when I’m with my “friends”.
They give me drugs to make me smile,
But when I awaken I am more grim. 

I look at the clouds, they fly so free.
I suddenly look down and I see “me”.
How can that be, I’m with my friends,
Can’t you see?

 Where are they taking me?
I don’t want to go.
Why am I in this ambulance?
I’m not sick just worn.

 Why didn’t I listen when the officer spoke?
I didn’t think anyone cared.
I thought he was just making a joke,
And now I am so scared.

 My birthday was yesterday,
I would have been 14.
I didn’t understand what DARE meant,
I wish I had known it meant, “CARE”.

 I’m just a lost child,
 but don’t grieve for me.
Reach out to lost children
So they don’t die like me, alone.

She Who Walks Among Stars Ó 2000

 For the Lost Children of the World
and the dedicated DARE Officers who work with them,
May Great Spirit Bless you all.

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