Forgotten Wishes...a poem
I died today and no one cared
My body fallen in ash and decay
I died with no one there
To take my pain away
I cried yesterday hungry and alone
yearning for things I've never seen
like a family and a real home
away from these streets so mean
I begged for days for a hand
stumbling unseen in a crowded city
never fully able to understand
or find any real pity
I survived lost and abandoned
the street my mother and enemy
death always beckoned
no kindness ever to see
born into this world a forgotten thought
a soul tarnished by poverty and greed
neglect and pain all I was taught
my soul and heart left to bleed
I died today and none knew my name
discarded on a pile of rubbish
I left this world the way I came
surrounded by forgotten wishes
© K.A.E Grove