A rude awakening: blaring alarm clock like a steel toed boot to the ribs, this is life on the streets.

Hugs are better than drugs, but it’s hard to know the difference when you’re seventeen pints deep and can’t see your way out of the bottom of the glass. Lives of the lost knocked down and down and down a downward spiral, this is the human experience at its rawest, starkest, realist.

Survival of the hurt and damaged: god and the atheistic existentialist waiting in line for the last mat at the shelter on a cold winter night, surrendering needles and bottles and hope at the door, fair trade to sleep inside.

At least you made it out, at least I made it out, at least someone shines light on this – a real problem.

This is social commentary.

Megan Dart is the co-artistic producer for Catch the Keys Productions, a playwright and a media and communications specialist. Follow her company on Twitter: @CatchtheKeys