{"id":24007,"date":"2016-08-13T20:04:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24007"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:32:18","slug":"just-a-man-with-a-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/just-a-man-with-a-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Man with a Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a dark and lonely world<br \/>\nOne so hard to understand<br \/>\nI have no family, no home, no friends<br \/>\nNothing but a cardboard sign to call my own<br \/>\nIt hasn&#8217;t always been this way<br \/>\nI was once a CEO<br \/>\nBut the economy bust did hit me hard<br \/>\nSo on this curb I sit<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t plan my life this way<br \/>\nBut, then again, who does<br \/>\nAs a CEO, I passed here and never gave a cent<br \/>\nSo, I guess, why should I ask your help<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s different with the shoe on my foot<br \/>\nFrom loafers to beaten, broken tennis shoes<br \/>\nBut before you judge, I know it happen to anyone<br \/>\nRemember&#8230;. you could be next<\/p>\n<p>I &#8211; like the men I passed<br \/>\nAsk you for your help<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve learned from mistakes<br \/>\nAnd promise, I will pay it forward<br \/>\nFor through it all, I still believe<br \/>\nGoodwill in men still exists<br \/>\nBut, if you pass me by, I&#8217;ll understand<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never wish you harm<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep on standing with my sign<br \/>\nAccepting my current fate<br \/>\nWhile praying that my life will change<br \/>\nBefore it is too late<br \/>\nI sit here in the elements, vulnerable and exposed<br \/>\nAs you swiftly pass me by<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll pray for you, while I chat with myself<br \/>\nNot knowing my history\u00a0you&#8217;ll never know why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a dark and lonely world One so hard to understand I have no family, no home, no friends Nothing but a cardboard sign to call my own It hasn&#8217;t always been this way I was once a CEO But the economy bust&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,441,5],"tags":[680,1804,1805,1806,1157],"class_list":["post-24007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-homeless-poems","tag-homeless-poetry","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-poetrymarathon2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24143,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24007\/revisions\/24143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}