THE WORKING POOR

DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF POOR: 
(ADJECTIVE) LACKING WHAT YOU NEED TO LIVE COMFORTABLE IN SOCIETY

DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF WORKING:
(ADJECTIVE) THE ACT OF DOING WORK
WORK TO GET PAID

Poem Title: To the Working Poor
Written by: Luchetta(Cookee) Manus © 2013

How can I pledge my allegiance
To my country
To my flag
Singing athem hymns
Of something I never had
Freedoms and equality
Those words mean lil to someone like me
My sin?
Never fitting in
Born on the wrong side of town
When you struggle to come up
The system keeps you down
Indecisiveness is an unknown disease for the rich community
Survival decisions the
The rich was granted immunity
Wake up in the morning
Your kids are hungry
Lil money
Cabinets bare
Do you dare
Make a choice?
We can't have both
K kids its either bread or toliet tissue
Catch 22
Baring the shame of a capitalist society
The poor are poor
The rich feel entitled
They say being poor is by your own doing
If I work, you work, we all work
Hard
We are supposed to be upward moving
from our 99% to their 1%
The system is designed to keep the rich, rich
The poor, poor and dumb
Being numb about the reality of things
And nothing change
The government leaves you with one dollar
And takes two
I thought you knew
Poverty
People are starving
Noone is sharing
No compassion
No caring
What happens to our poor
Our elderly
Our weak
Unemployment
Abuse
Our young deceased
Believing lies
Suicides
Broken family ties
Lost lives
And only the strong survive
If your rich
Enough to live this life

Written by: Luchetta(Cookee) Manus © 2013