A New Beginning

by The Cowl Editor on September 14, 2017


Poetry


Homeless men in a subway station
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By Kiley McMahon ’20

Portfolio Staff

 

He sits,

lingers,

paces,

runs,

and begs.

 

He is starved,

parched,

alone,

and weary.

 

He takes a train,

far far away,

from chaos,

and clutter,

that his future life brought.

 

A new beginning,

a bottle released,

left to scavenge,

along with the past life,

that he so wished to alter.

 

A new beginning,

for a man lost in the wind.

 

A bottle released,

from his cold and pruned hand.