Life Rat Race Poems

Keeping up with the Jones I still try
It's dog eat dog neath a vicious sky
All the finer things that you demand
This rat race has gotten...

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Get out of the rat race maze
By Michelle Morris
28/10/2022

There are so many jobs
Where you can lose your soul
They can make your burn too hot
Or make...

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Not knowing why 
We still join rat race,
In wanderlust 
We add one more face,
Post many births 
Gained we’d a good house,
Left it foul oh 
With...

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7/11/21


Never been the smoothest talker
Got to make the best of it before I need a walker
Had a lot or nothing to offer
Wasn't always worth the...

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Feather 

Life has it's moments
You know, good and the bad
But some of the best times I've ever had
Are those when I've stopped
At the side of...

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The tickling watches, the shaking legs,
Minds full with silent cries and begs
Hearts are homes
Where the oil is ceaseless impatience,
And neighbours – the anxious ancestors.

The dreams,...

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You follow the rat races,
Climbing ladders that never end,
Surrounded by faces,
But not one you could call friend,

You stare hungrily at your reflection, 
Picking apart your...

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COFFEE
       HOUSE 
       BLUES


I am
in the A.M.
Am I ?
I think I am!

It is...

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The finish line for the
rat-race speeds ever ahead of 
its leaders;
brilliantly ruthless people;
brilliant and myopic.          ...

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The saying goes,
“Money makes the world go round”
and yet as I step onto this adult plane
as the initiated guest that I am,
I have come to...

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Gotta go here. Gotta go there.
Do this. Do that.
I appear and disappear
Through our atmosphere.
Now at my habitat
Gotta go here. Gotta go there.
All for my career.
I...

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Fear glowed, burning as on fire,
Everywhere where darkness dwelt, its taunting presence shone as a star,
Her heart was leaping, just almost as if out of...

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Concrete city
A rat race

Blind ghosts covetous
In dark corners
Melancholic
Over dead dreams...

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Every day there I am, out there.
Smartly dressed, all smiles, like I care.
Trying to fit in a world that has no fittings.
Standing straight and decent,...

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O squalling baby fat and red,
Laying on your nursery bed,
Clamber down onto the floor,
Crawl or toddle out the door.
Go to school. Graduate.
Take another for your...

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