Poetry: Because I've Got Nothing Else

 

Destitution

There's a stray dog barking.

Searching for a home,

He belongs to no one.

His lone wail his only companion.

Searching for a home,

Like the other wild ones.

His lone wail his only companion.

I know what it is to cry alone in the night.

Like the other wild ones, 

I seek shelter from the rain.

I know what it is to cry alone in the night

To feel the pains of need bite harder than hunger.

I seek shelter from the rain.

I belong to no one.

I feel the pains of need bite harder than hunger.

There's a stray dog barking.

~Jamie L. Jackson

For those interested in the poetry sort of thing, this poetry form is a pantoum.  I'm typically not a form poem aficionado only because I struggle with making things fit (I'm more of a free verse kinda person- when I write-which I haven't in about 10 years).  But the pantoum is easy enough and can really have a meaningful punch if done right.  Not one of my better ones by far, but unfortunately, I am revisiting similar emotions that prompted me to write this all those years ago.  

The more things change, the more they stay the same.