What life is this?????.........

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Just trying to highlight the problem of homelessness among the ex-military personnel in the UK

What life is this?????.........

From a soldier who had served nine years, 
Every day has brought along more tears, 
And now I've lost all hopes and fears, 
What life is this I lead? 

My head I lay upon the floor, 
In the shadows of a cold shop door, 
I cannot take this anymore, 
What life is this I lead? 

A sleeping bag, a cardboard box, 
Scruffy clothes and unkempt locks, 
Surviving like an urban fox, 
What life is this I lead? 

Comments made as you stroll on by, 
A dirty look or hurtful sigh, 
I turn my head and start to cry, 
What life is this I lead? 

I'm trying hard to start again, 
As I walk along in the pouring rain, 
My heart has never known such pain, 
What life is this I lead?

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.