Fluff and Fantasy

Quit Your Crying

A poem about the Great Depression. Many people lost their jobs and suicide rates spiked dramatically. Disease was rampant throughout many cities and slums. Everyone was poor but no one ever talked about it. The phrase 'silence is golden' came about. The situation was easier to ignore if no one ever acknowledged it. This a young boy's perspective on what is happening. 

 Daddy lost his job

Mama's looking thin

They tell us to be quiet

Telling is a sin

They hide us all away

So no one else can see

How much we have struggled

Since this began to be

Mama quit your crying

Everything is fine

I'll go and get job

To make a shiny dime

Dust has filled my mouth

And now it fills my nose

We stay inside the house

As a wild wind blows

I stare out broken windows

All I see is black

I look towards my mama

For all the hope I lack

Mama quit your crying

Everything is good

Soon everything will be back

To the way it should

Baby's getting sicker

I know just what to do

I'll go and fetch some water

And make her special stew

I go down to the well

But I find something new

Daddy's hanging by the rope

His face is turning blue

Mama quit your crying

Eveything's alright

I'm sure he's gone to heaven

Where everything is bright

Mama quit your crying

Everything's okay

You've still got me and baby

And we are here to stay