For The Homeless

It won’t be long before the warm nights will no longer give them comfort.

During the summer they do not have to worry about the weather

but only the bright floodlights of patrol cars scanning the riverbanks

where they are forced to move farther up the river to another place.

When the cold nights and the rain comes they will have to huddle close to

whatever will give them warmth and bundle up in layers of tattered clothes and

moldy blankets and holy bedrolls.

They will have to try and sleep under their makeshift shelters

and no fires are allowed wherever they go.

All they have to look forward to is the next meal at the mission or soup kitchen

and their prayers still waiting

to be answered.