Human

Embraced in this coil called life;

Skirting the line between playing my part

And despair.

 

Don’t feel remotely depressed,

Just utterly completely compressed

Into hopelessness.

 

Sick of having to care:

What’s the right bank account?

How much should I save?

Wait, save? Laugh. Cry.

Better set my alarm,

To a time that brings harm.

Got to commute;

That maddening drive:

Forward-back-forward-back…

Can I afford to eat this week?

When I’ll see a pay rise? Bleak.

Why is everything more expensive

Than last month? Stay in, pensive.

 

Calculate the cost of generations lost;

Bossed into breaking belligerent backs,

Just to pile more onto offshored stacks –

No matter the facts, it’s compassion they lack.

 

I’m just a human being with most basic needs:

Feed me and shelter me, beyond that’s just greed…