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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Lost

A piece of me waits.
It waits somewhere else in a different place.
It calls to me often.
For me.

It does not understand why I have not come yet.
It does not understand why I stay where I am.

I desperately want to run there
So we can be together again
But I am scared.

Scared to go, scared to come,
Scared to find and scared to be lost again.

So I stay.
I stay here.
Lost.

This is a piece of prose by Marc Carver published in The Big Issue, Street Lights, 9-15 Nov 2009 edition taken from ABCtales.com

In every city and every town I visit I buy the Big Issue. I buy it to support the homeless but when I buy it I take time to linger and talk to the vendor. I ask them how they are today and how their situation is in general. If you go back to the same vendor week after week you'll hear their stories and I am pleased to say that for many of them it is a story of progress; of getting into a hostel, finding work again and eventually getting their lives back on track.

Take time this week to buy the Big Issue - if nothing else it is a great magazine, well written and easily digestible. If you can spare another few minutes to stop and listen to the vendor's story then even better.

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