Innocense Lost ( Inspired By Soul Drifter )

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Paul Wilson

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since 2002-07-07

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0 posted 2020-09-24 03:26 PM

Innocence Lost
By Paul Wilson

To recapture innocence lost
To some back seat Romeo
Going further than she wanted to go
Consequences…she didn’t know

Abandoned by her family
Friends no longer came around
Only choice… to leave town
Packed a bag caught a Gray Hound

The glow of city lights
Mesmerized this innocent child
Lost in the cracks of darkness
Like so many others defiled

Days spent looking for handouts
Nights spent looking for a place to rest
Fighting predators of the night
Praying she didn’t become one of the dispossessed

No money…no food to eat
No choice to make but one
Back to the streets each night
Doing what she must a new life begun

Each street corner a new chance awaits
Men walking by give her a smile
As they leer at her from head to toe
She ask…would you like to party for awhile?

She dreams of going back home
To family and friends one day
Then when the Sun goes down
She goes back to the streets to play

To recapture innocence lost
To some back seat Romeo
Going further than she wanted to go
Consequences…she didn’t know

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~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

jwesley
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since 2000-04-30

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Spring, Texas

1 posted 2020-09-24 11:32 PM

Glad to see someone reference Greyhound. Wonder how man even remember it's significance in the USA. I've a whole series of pieces based on and called Riding the Greyhound.

Enjoyed this piece, my friend, and NOT just because of the nostalgia it sparked.

j.

Paul Wilson

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2 posted 2020-09-25 10:42 AM

James...Thanks so much for reading and your reply. Glad you enjoyed it.
Glad I could rekindle your memories about Gray hound Buses. Many a people use to ride them. I remember if a person wanted to go to a big town for shopping and didn't drive they would have to catch the Gray Hound bus.
Take care my friend...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

soul drifter
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3 posted 2020-09-25 03:14 PM

Well done! Back alley Juliets aren’t colorful Dickensian characters or Eliza Doolittles singing ‘Wouldn’t It Be Loverly’. No, no, they’re walking, talking tragedies, and there’s probably many really going through the ringer out there as we speak. You got it right.

Paul Wilson

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4 posted 2020-09-25 07:29 PM

soul drifter...Thanks so much for putting your seal of approval on this, I really appreciate it. Thanks for inspiring me. You got it right also my friend. Your poem just hit me and I had to write something...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

augustsky
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midwest US

5 posted 2020-09-26 11:55 AM

I love it when Poets get inspired by other Poets. You're compassionate heart is showing
Poet Paul.

Sky~

~Tell me the story about how the sun
loved the moon so much..he died every
night to let her breathe~

Michael

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6 posted 2020-09-27 10:49 AM

Haha.  I have to laugh cause I remember the Riding the Greyhound pieces Jimmy spoke of.  They fell around the time I went across country on a Greyhound myself.  It was an adventure like no other.

So far as the loss of innocence, the choice and motivations that lead some down that road I will never be able to fathom.  Have known a few, and the hollow within some seems unfillable.  Always leaves one to wonder how bad it could have been where they came from to not want to go running back.

Michael

Temptress

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7 posted 2020-10-15 12:00 PM

Definitely a stark tale here. I think sometimes it could be difficult home situations that motivate runaways and it could be shame and fear of rejection by loved ones. The horrors that fear causes can be powerful. Enjoyed!

"I know this love will tear me to pieces
I know his hands will dig up my secrets"

Meg Myers

Paul Wilson

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8 posted 2020-10-15 06:20 PM

Lady T...Thanks spo very much for reading and your reply. Many situations can be the cause of young people running away and that sometimes is worse than the reason why they ran.

Have you heard from Michael?

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

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