A Most Eloquent Poem

Nobody Sees Her
She's sitting huddled in the corner of the building
Shivering in the cold
Nobody sees her
She's standing on the street shivering in the rain
Nobody sees her
She's sitting in the back of a greasy cafe
Hunched over a cup of coffee
Nobody sees her
She's waiting for a john to pick her up
Nobody sees her
She's sitting on a filthy floor covered with used
Points, garbage and empty beer bottles
Nobody sees her.
She's lying on the cold hard ground that some
John has dumped her on
Nobody sees her
She's puking as she slaps and prods her veins so the rig
Can give her that moment of feeling good
Nobody sees her
She's just a junkie people say;
She's nothing
Nobody sees her
She's a missing, forgotten and lost girl
Nobody sees her
But today, everybody sees her
She is found in an unmarked hole in the ground
- Betty Nordin