Debt Of Expectations Poem by Nika McGuin
Debt Of Expectations
Nothing I own is mine
not this room
not it's golden key
not this car
not this phone
or even this pen
They're all rentals
that i'm enslaved to for the time being
one day I have to give them back
even this happiness is not my own
beneath it a poorness hides
to make matters worse,
someone else is paying for it all
I'm under contract presently
there are things they want in return
someone, they want me to be
So others look upon this lifestyle enviously
they don't know it doesn't belong to me
it's rented, on credit of expectations
all it does, is add to my tribulations
I can't live up to them,
so I suffer debtor's frustration
Neither a lender or borrower be, is a thinking that you can correct and you have...iip
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4/27/2024 2:11:34 AM # 1.0.0.1119
This is a brilliant poem! The issue of a modern society that controls us through economic bondage and keeps us so busy we can never fully exercise our freedoms is one of those hidden causes that surface from time to time. Your poem shines a glaring light on the manipulation of people, the numbing of their senses so they don't respond, their despair. You reveal the issue with remarkable CLARITY; from now on, it won't be possible to ignore these negative things, and the powers-that-be are exposed in all of their hypocrisy. Good work, soldier!