Without a Home, But With a Soul

A poem that often becomes a reality (unfortunately)

Ani Vals
Paper Poetry
2 min readSep 18, 2023

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God stretched out his sunny hand to him,
but not to take him to Heaven.
He was a man who didn’t know what ego was
and lived on the edge of the end.

He was a wanderer — without a home or a livelihood,
his bed a rickety old bench.
His “profession” was no punishment,
though he had a single jacket.

Photo by Matt Collamer on Unsplash

He was a happy man -
he didn’t know what sin was.
He had welcomed the new century
with the other homeless men he knew.

He was proud to have created,
two sons — now engineers.
Though he had survived without them,
the true joys he had found.

God reached out his sunny hand to him -
this time to take him home to Heaven.
The immortal soul shone in heaven,
for whom this wasn’t the end.

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Ani Vals
Paper Poetry

English teacher| writer| poet| passionate about creative writing, books, travelling, art, relationships, parenting, psychology and expressing personal insights.