Walking through these woods of prey.
Hoping for the best today.
Where I have come from you don't get a second chance to do things right.
To live, you got to fight.
Survival skills, I had to learn,
To kill, to eat, to live, I had to burn.
Living out here on the streets,
Was not what I had expected, but here is where my new friends live, the ones I sometimes meet.
Before deciding to leave home,
Make sure you never leave alone.
Life on the streets is not all fun and games.
You walk around feeling shame.
You must survive on what you find.
Leaving you to always look behind.
Someone is always out to kill,
To take you down is their one promised will.
Stay home, because life is better that way.
It's your safe haven, a place you will feel okay.
©terrylin53
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