Rose colored glasses   Those rose colored glasses You’re always looking through Show you only the beauty They hide the ugly side of life From you It’s time to remove the glasses Open your eyes and see The ugly side of life That can affect and happen To you and to me Anyone of us Can lose our house The place we call home Get tossed out on the streets Then the cold lonely streets Become our home Any of us can be A victim of a crime The world has turned ugly Were not safe Outside We lock our doors and windows Make a prison Of our homes Were not safe on the streets Too much crime is going on We could be that person Going through the trash Looking for a bite to eat And a cardboard box As a place to sleep We could be that person The one we all ignore The one we see on our streets Right outside Our doors The one we turn our nose up at The homeless people That we see Yes it could happen To us That could end up being You or me Most of us Live paycheck to paycheck We Rob Peter to pay Paul And after and if the bills are paid The money is all Gone We could be so hungry That we might find Ourselves standing in The nearest soup line We could lose It all Everything we own If tragedy should strike Our family and our home No one chooses to be homeless No one dreams of living A life such as that Things just happen to some folks That’s how they end up Like that We all know the saying And we should keep it in mind There but for the grace of god Go I Anything goes challenge Host Tint Teddy (Bonnie) By badmac © 2008 badmac (All rights reserved)

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