Yesterday's Child

The flute held in a hand

Numb with cold

Sings its’ sorrow

As the tramp narrates

His crying sililoqy

The streets listen to his story

No longer believing in victory or glory

But…

The people walk past

Muttering under their breath

Refusing to believe

That today’s beggar

Was once

Yesterday’s Child

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Beggars in Nottingham, what can I say, they were children once

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