A Diamond In The Rough
(Epoch Four: 1989-1999)
Like people
"Garbage"can be mistreated
And falsely judge.
I know many
Who feel their life
Is at a perennial downfall.
An unwanted woman
Riding from subway car
To subway car,
Expanding on her ruin.
To an unmoved public
Who not for an instant
Contemplate who she is or was.
Someone's daughter, mother, wife
Or like us all
A child of God.
Hence, a diamond in the rough.
Just the other day
I saw a wounded chair
Alone and cold on the pavement.
Those who passed it by
Thought it in their way.
As far as I was concerned
This wounded chair
Was a king waiting patiently
To be befriended.
Now this wounded chair and I
Are one together.
We are not "garbage"
For one another.
Arm in arm
We are enough.