Humankind
Made fables
Huge castles
Big stables
Stories to tell
Odes to sing
Melodies ring
Planes to fly
Ships to sail
Nothing left
to chance
Nothing fails
Then created
Epics
Fantasies
Illusions
In order to play
In this world to stay
Sane and sound
Food abound
Clothes to wear
Persevere
Tag Archives: poverty
Excluded
Apathy
Hardwork
In the rich man’s world
I don’t want your money
I have no urge to steal
If only for a moment
you realise how I feel
Brought up in a ghetto
Parents killed before time
gangs all I have as relations
Inheritance not a dime
Leftovers for sustenance
held machetes, never a pen
Drugs carrier at five
Junkie at the age of ten
Hardened by daily beatings
Bullying is just for fun
betting my life everyday
roulette with loaded gun
Trading in crack, heroin
Thousands I do make
Wish I could cross thirty
before dumped in a lake
Hypocrite
Rations
Wait for rations
all hours in a day
Someone somewhere
wastes away
double standards
are here to stay
rich have millions
and games to play
poor do rise
have your say
your say matters
in rags and tatters
we won’t let you live
until you give
up in the smoke
wealth croaks
humanity triumphs
vanity limps
end hegemony
burn fake money
food you produce
all yours to eat
Rations for rich
who don’t know
how to cook
let alone sow
that is only just
rise we must
Have you seen her
Observatory
watching intensely
passing youth
colourful dungeon
hiding black truth
aimless roaming
wasted ways
drunken nights
hazy days
self loathing
soon arrives
humanity hatred
fittest survives
street smart
learning game
borrow, steal
absence shame
lurching, searching,
who to blame
birthplace, environs
upbringing claim
poverty, destiny
all the same