Learning about the homeless

Mr Right is in the middle of a social studies project, they are raising consciousness in the community of the plight of the homeless. The kids have been collecting for the local food bank and today were asked to write a poem. I was touched by the one Mr. Right wrote and thought I would share it.

They are People Too

They sleep on a park bench or in a shelter home
They eat what they can find or what others give them
Some might call them crazy
Some might give them pain
But deep down inside you know that
they are people too.
They sometimes bathe in rivers or just not at all
Their water might be dirty

and their skin might be rotting away
Although they might look inside out
They are people too.
Now when you are about to eat
Stop
And try to think
The thing that we might take for granted
They don’t have at all
So, before you eat that meat
Know
They are people too.