Box Cars

daisiesnfld: Boxcars
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Against the backdrop of the city
Past where the buildings of towers are
Rolling out into the countryside
While riding in a boxcar
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One can view the world's humanity
Through the eyes and deeds of others
Be they ordinary, actors, gamblers
Or another beggar brother
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Met with humbling opposition
Obstacles too steep in paths to climb
Are those temporarily escaping
Hopes of a better life to find
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Frowned upon for riding boxcars
Track record, history of their own
Traveling trains from plains to cities
Labeled without job or home
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The unemployed blue collared worker
Due to drugs that made their fall
Trying to make their comebacks
Resignation etched on the faces of all
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Within the open rusty sliding doors
Are stories of despair, defeat of men
Would we be so quick to judge them
Were we to join the ranks therein
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