Breadwinner Poems - Poems about Breadwinner

#Oath_of_a_breadwinner See these bruises on my knees, feel the pain on my back, my salty skin from both sweat and blood, soaking my skin pale. This dilapidating strength in my bones, my body tattooed with scabs and scars from thriving daily to serve those I call my own. The clots in my veins from steel hammering,...

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Aspirations and desires he set out to reach, One day he will make it and they will all be rich, From a young age, he carried the burden, Searching for purpose through it all, Though it may seem like he figured it out. Successful they say he is a strong son his mom is pleased Taken upon his little shoulders, the...

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For many years, you were our family's breadwinner. Your money paid for our breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Because of my mental impairment, you continued to support me after I turned eighteen. You could've outworked two twenty year olds, you were the hardest worker I've ever seen. After twenty months of chemotherapy, you lost your fight. Your battle with Leukemia ended...

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Transcripts, Manuscripts, Dog-eat-dog, cut-throat, Get ahead or say GOODBYE To tomorrow Who stares me down, Menacingly it approaches. Waste not, want not, Waste brain, no gain, No survival Not cut out To be breadwinner....

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You come home from work tired,wornout, beat. Your body aches all over from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet The radio blaring, theT.V is full blast Your oldest son wants to borrow the car and money for gas. You go up stairs about to lay your weary head on the bed. There on the dresser...

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to understand- to (in effect) reprimand everyone else ____ the heart melts / you see / i'm ashamed, i want your eyes ____ covered ; smothered in the thick heat of Delight / (taste the night, 2night, do you feel all)right? put up a fight, confuse your faults & limbs with ____ mine. ; trying to have manners- trying...

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