Raise Your Voices

I've been contemplating...

What happens, really, when your money runs out
  and you still have no source of income?

I see, on the streets of this fine city, people
  who know the answer to this question.

As the pile of unanswered job applications rises
  and my bank account dwindles,

I wonder if their path is not that which
  unfolds in front of me.

So, yesterday I dared to step beyond my fear

  to envision this path.

I vowed that, should this path be mine,

  I will bring my pen and paper

and I will give voice to those standing on the 

  street corners of this world, who ask

us all to consider our humanity.