My Responsibility

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Ignore it and it’ll go away

Not my problem so I don’t see

I pretend not to smell

The unwashed flesh and whiskey smell

I pretend I don’t see

How shoulders hunched

He wanders by me

I pretend he isn’t there

As if he will just disappear and

With him the problem I

Choose to daily ignore

It’s not my responsibility to pay for him

I’m working too hard to support my own life

I can’t afford a hand out

I’ve wandered past him for almost two years

Ashamed to look him in the eye

As ashamed as he is to look into mine

It’s none of my business, but

Shouldn’t it be?