There is a vacant mall
Just a few blocks from here
Broken windows and shattered glass
Containers and trash everywhere
There you will find them
The people with ragged clothes
Empty carts in the parking lot
That’s where they live
The building and the people
Trash of our times
All of them forgotten
Rejected by society
Powerful and so well written, this is something that needs to be said. Thank you for saying it so well! Jo
Thank you Jo
Thanks again for posting. Hard one to read but like many things hard should be read and reread.
I often think about the family they may have left behind. Most people have immediate family. It’s sad.
There are so many empty buildings, how is it possible not to join the dots and give someone a dry place to sleep?
I can’t even tell you how much that is bothering me. I wish I could change that.
Your post is like a page from a novel foretelling a dystopian future for our country. So disturbing to see and yet so very much needed to be seen by everyone.
It is already happening. 🙁
Terminal materialism gone mad. The rich get richer-the poor poorer. And so it goes. (Leonard Cohen.)
I teared up. I’m pretty teary tonight but this hit home.
Oh Deb, I didn’t mean to make you cry. I just had to get this of my chest
I remember the same fate with the once famous mall as well in my place when I was a child. So sad the once a happy place is now abandoned. 🙁 People are afraid to go there now so not sure if there are some homeless people there.
I wish they would open up the old malls and give shelter to the homeless people.
I find I’m at a loss for words. This disturbs me on a couple of different levels. Diana said it well – this is very disheartening.
This post is so disheartening – a commentary of societies lack of compassion.
It bothers me more and more. Half of our middle class is only a few pay checks away from disaster, but still…we try to ignore the facts and don’t help the ones who have fallen of the cliff (we don’t help enough).
I agree.