Old Man Yet Working

Old men yet working
Is not funny any more
This ghetto life
We living

How can we survive 
Under this men

For tomorrow with this
Evil is a disaster

When one work till
Old age 
Tell me what is the 
Meaning of rest 
to the 
Soul with this grief

In the ghetto the old
Still hustle 
For even it kids still
Strive for nothing 
With an empty pocket 

He serve his government 
His government promise a 
Pension at old age
they say they got 
No pension money now
Economy on crisis they 
Always say
Like a reason 
Now the old need 
Work more as 
In the beginning 
Till now in the ghetto 
Is not funny any more
It never seize not as obvious 
It seen men
Old men yet working
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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