“I was coming to the end of a long long walk
When a man crawled out of a cardboard box
Under the E. Street Bridge
Followed me on to it
I went out halfway across
With that homeless shadow tagging along
So I dug for some change
Wouldn’t need it anyway
He took it lookin’ just a bit ashamed
He said, You know, I haven’t always been this way”
Lyrics from the 2006 song titled “Moments” written by Annie Tate/Sam Tate/Dave Berg recorded by Emerson Drive.
Those words tore through me this past Saturday night when E.D. performed it at a charity event for Breast Cancer that my wife and I attended.
Not only because I have a big brother that the song could’ve been written for, but because this is a huge problem in America. We spend billions (BILLIONS) per month for a patch of dirt in the middle east that hovers over an ocean of oil while our own countrymen and women starve on the streets and sleep in cardboard boxes EVERY night!
These people are not throw away items like trash we can’t get nickels for from the recycle center. They are people, flesh and blood, people who’ve had moments in their life and find themselves down on their luck at the moment. They shouldn’t look at us and feel ashamed, we should look at them and feel ashamed that we can’t do more in this the greatest most powerful country on the planet!
