"Family"

I have a brother,
I have a sister,
I have a father, mother,
Hardly a family.

I know you're my friend
And this stranger standing
And that beggar there
I know very well.

I have a house with roofs
But I live here with you
My house has walls too
With you on the streets of our world.

I have many cousins
Can trace my family tree
Yet there is no one to call
Nobody knows me at all.

Perhaps I need to poor
I am a poor in spirit
Among the things I owned
E 'with you I found my home.

June 5, 2001