The Thoughts of a Poor Man

These words I write could not explain
No could it hide my shame
Why does poverty have to bear my name
How I wish, I was born into the house of fame.

Maybe then I wont be so ashame
In Poverty there is no one, I can blame
How I try not for things to remain the same
They say, I should proclaim, I should aim
But they do not know my pain.

I do not want to claim
I hide away in shame
Yet they still choose to blame
All this aching has me shaking
Why can't they see, I am tired of always failing.

I am falling
God knows I am breaking
My heart is aching
Poverty has me shaking
I need something groundbreaking.

Anything to make me start believing
I need to believe things would be changing
God please do some ex-changing
Right now I can do with the hand of SAVING.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Leiser Avatar
March 11, 2018 at 1:53 PM
Your poem has a powerful message to it, Patricia (my mother’s name!) One can imagine the struggles of poverty and the burdens in carries. Well written!
Howard  Avatar
May 3, 2019 at 10:58 AM
thank you, sorry my reply is late
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