REAR VIEW

The light turned green

And he shuffled his aimless steps

Across the street

Life-scarred, seedy and soiled

A thing the sun struck hard upon

A stranger from the kinder clime of night

The light turned red

And time and the world roared by

While he lingered perplexed in the alien place

Beneath the tangled hair,

Behind the fire-rimmed eyes

The secret terror tore through to light

From the little boy

Lost on the corner of loneliness,

Locked forever in the body of a man

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