I see people standing on street corners with signs that say homeless vet, this is why I wrote this poem


STREETS

homeless vets fill our streets
dealing with addictions they cannot beat
Stand on street corners begging for food
Often standing with broken down shoes
It makes me sad to see what happened to them
Returned home to anger and hate from a war 40 years ago
Tired not to let emotions show
Our boys today come home with missing limbs and distraught minds
Soldiers trouble adapting to normal lives
Sometimes they just cannot survive
Sick, hungry, and tired when they finally come for help
Then they don't stay
All they do is run away
And go back to the streets
Somewhere out there they still have families and friends who care
Soldiers feel life on the streets is a burden to bare
Its sad to see what happened to these warriors
Reduced to life on the streets




Poetry by ternic2005
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Written on 2015-11-01 at 22:13

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countryfog
On any given night in America there are 50,000 homeless vets, ten percent of them women. The Veterans Administration is a corrupt and abysmal failure at treating those who do come for help and often have to wait a year to receive it, and has no realistic agenda at all to reach out to those who do not seek help but need to. How we have treated our warriors since Vietnam is a national disgrace. Thank you for this necessary reminder that it us up to us to do what we can, one soldier at a time.
2015-11-02


Ivan R
Your poetry is harsh, true, sad and important
the other side of the mind that do not like war ... as me, I would never engage in battle for any reason, but for those who have done that ... you tell their story correctly, completely, and so vividly

" Sick, hungry, and tired when they finally come for help
Then they don't stay
All they do is run away
And go back to the streets "
2015-11-02