What good is owning a designer Louis Vuitton shirt when you can't pay your water bill ?
What good is owning a designer Saint Laurent man pouch when you can't even afford a meal?
What good is having a bodybuilder's stature when you only find joy from an anabolic steroid pill?
What good is talking about your past achievements when you fell off your peak?
What good is telling the kids to show some respect when you never let your elders speak?
What good is making a girl who lives on a pole happy when back at home your mum is weak and sick?
What good is buying an enormous bottle of South African red wine when your pops can't afford a cup of enamel tea?
What good is flaunting your friend"s Aston Martin when you can barely pay your son's fee?
What good is paying for your so-called wife's plastic surgery when your grandma can barely move her knee?
What good is calling yourself a man when all you gave your daughter was a can of hatred and lies?
What good is calling yourself a father when you showed her fifty terrible lives and told her to pick her size?
What good is calling yourself an entrepreneur when you gamble your wife's savings and laugh as you roll the dice?
What good is calling yourself a role model to the young bulls when you can't show up for your kid?
What good is bragging on social media when you're wasted in a bar neglecting the mouths you have to feed?
What good is calling yourself a great person when you didn't let hungry Mohammed in when you were celebrating ID?
What good is living in an old shack with a million of Virgil's Off-White shoes?
What I'm saying is there are many ways of looking at life, and no one's gonna make you choose
I don't mean to say I'm the greatest poet alive...it's me versus whoever wants to lose.
~Keero~
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PoesieThe poems in this compilation are meant to give you an insight into current issues and trends. All the social-economic issues you can think of are all featured in my poems. Poverty,femicide, and even drug and substance abuse. I hope you'll enjoy th...
