Suffering Existence Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Afraid to ask for anything, knowing it will be grabbed
and taken away again.
Only asking for prayers to continue an existence of
homeless dread.
Crying within for family's sake, knowing the devastating
hurt, losing home has caused.
Afraid to want or hope in anything or anyone again.
A lifetime of suffering, culminating in eviction, a
slumlord with help from a city inspector, paired
together, to dump yet another family in the street.
Hating the very existence of life and living, having
no where to call home, barely existing, while tears
fill up an organ where a heart used to live.
All of natural life has become a sewer, made that way
by a slumlord and cruel human being.
Our world is no longer fit for living, having been
driven by a landlord into a land of frightening death,
afraid to ask for anything, because we no longer have
any value as humans on this earth.