Home Is Where the Street Is: A poem by Emily Tierney Kinsella

Fighting Words 2019: Emily Tierney Kinsella is 13 and a student at St Mary’s Holy Faith Secondary School Killester, Dublin 5

Emily Tierney Kinsella

Tue May 7 2019 - 00:00

H is for home of which I have none

O is for outsider it’s what I’ve become

M is for mattress a sleeping bag covered in frost

E is for everything it’s what I have lost

L is for lonely but in the middle of a crowd

Emily Tierney Kinsella (age 13), reads her poem inspired by homeless crisis 'Home is Where the Street is'.

E is for excluded but once I was proud

S is for some help from anyone at all

S is for survival I’m still standing tall