Homeless Shuffle
Come on! Here we go, don’t sit down and rest.
Soon you’ll be in the middle of a jumbled
shattered mess.
Once you settle down, start to go to school,
They move you again and again and
treat you as their tool.
Since they aren’t better than anybody,
They make you do the homeless shuffle
And at the same time
They try to muffle your cries for help
In the darkness of reality.
-Marysa Nieves, 9-year-old, LIFT, 1990