Beggars Belief

What do Beggars Believe?

When they sleep

The only possessions they keep

Are the content of their dreams

Do they believe in the foundations

Of a society of nations

In the consciousness stream

Tell me what do Beggars dream?

Do they dream of a land

Where they’re called a Human

Not judged by their ability to work or have use

Where they’ve not gone beserk nor are shown such abuse

Tell me does a Beggar believe

That the answer lies in bottle

And when they’re on a drunk

Are all their hopes sunk

Or are they free in their dreams

Like a stick in a stream

To float away from their junk

Tell me how must a beggar become real?

Is he a mystery, lost like the stars

In the sea

Is his the life of a Tramp

An envelope with no address

A letter but no Stamp

And does he still have some hope?

Or to some dark sin must he confess

And is his Sin any worse than our own

Is it more or is it less?

What deserves he of his present situation

Are past and future, just out of his creation?

How will the Music score end

Will he find a friend

Or sound his Bum note