not forgotten

Unfortunatley I found out that 2 people I was close to on the street have died recently. It's the third death in a short time and I'm so sad it's hard to keep the tears back long enough to focus on studying-the reason I'm studying is to try and change all this, to make some sort of a difference. I feel helpless to stop the deaths right now. Funding for homelessness seems to be slowing evaporating and since the olympics bid all sense of humanity in this city is gone. Condos are being built all around us, people are obsessed with making money, and setting this city up for the olympics. People on the street are being ignored, it seems as though all the city is doing is researching how to build more jails to put them away so no one will have to see them. It's so sad and I feel a sense of hopelessness, people in our community are dying and no one seems to care except to appreciate one less person taking up space on the sidewalk upsetting the tourists. These people are beautiful human beings, who I love and every time one of them dies a piece of my heart goes with them. When will people realize that this is not a "problem" that we need to deal with, but that these are human lives, daughters, sons, grand daughters, grandsons, mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers. These are people that I will always remember and care for and a piece of my heart goes with them.