A moment of your attention if you would please
Don't worry no need to get off your knees
stay down there and submit to the corrupt system
Maybe you'll change your decision after you've been given some wisdom
If I asked you the question of what do you do
how many of you would say and it be true
that it is something that you enjoy
and you love where it is that you are employed
simple skills in an unstable position
where you sit every day waiting for the transition
from employment to retirement
where you seek some emotional betterment
in the twilight years of your life
maybe spending more time with your husband or wife
or with children that are still under the indoctrination of capitalism
in the process of further tuition
in the ways that they can better the balance of the rich
while they still look up to the stars and wish
for less troubles for you, their parents
in affording to pay for food and rent
because you aren't getting paid enough
to get all of your family through the rough
and while everyone knows that times are tough
they do not understand the hunger you always feel
as you've been skipping the past weeks meals
so that your children can go to be fulfilled
so that they can have a Christmas filled
with presents underneath their second hand tree
so at night when you lay in bed thinking of being free
of debts and worries of food and eviction decrees
wishing for enough help from those that have made it too a good profession
to get themselves through these numerous recessions
but then that help doesn't come to you
and you have no idea how you'll make it through
so while you are on your knees willing to please
remember who is in control of your outrageous fees
for fuel and basic necessities
so stand up and fight for a better living
for if you don't, who else would be willing?
YOU ARE READING
Non Nobis Tantum Nati
PuisiFor a few years now I have been writing poetry, at first it was just something I did to pass the time and vent emotions that I didn't really have any other way of letting out but over time it has developed into something that I just find myself doin...