The Epithets Of Poverty Ii Poem by Raymond Cabrera

In illness,
a brother that die since there’s no money for the medicine is…
When you want to eat but there’s no food on your rusty plate is…
Beggars sleeping at the streets but shaking from cold is…
When you keep on dreaming to arouse from poorness is…
Over force labor, youth that drinks their sweat is…
You can not afford to buy a pair of slippers is…
Living on a land of somebody’s property is…
Taking the risk and the luck to gamble on lotto is…
A blind man playing his guitar to be heard by mercy is…
Seizing all kinds of jobs for even in a very low wages is…
Collecting garbage to sell over low peso per kilograms is…
Dripping wet from water of your bad roof during rains is…
To search and eat bread with molds from the garbage is…
Lusting in dark to make money, for the survival of your family is…
Lamentations over the death of your parents, lying on your very arms,
And yet you still cry without money for their burial is…
…poverty