financial woe

by

creditors calling me

breathing down my neck

just dont seem to understand

the situation I have run into

i wonder

how many of you know

how this is like
be a 22-year-old independent

feminist fighter

paying her own way

on her own path

trying to make it

through the overgrown weeds

of debt and failure

barely keeping head above

the pitch dark water

that threatens to shove itself

down my pink throat

who was it

the Founding Fathers

the rich and plenty

who have no idea what

this road is like
wish they could see

what this does to me

and others just the same
how it saps us of our dignity

and faith in selves

and makes us weak and tired
wish they could know

for a month

what it is like to live this way
but wishes are just hopes

and dreams made on

twinkling stars

and candle flames
when do justice and

understanding come in

to participate in this game

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Why don't you look at Are You Saying Goodbye?
by: Joyce Hemsley
from: Sunderland, England, UK

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