The Poverty Songbook Poem by Ivan Brooks Sr

The Poverty Songbook



In my poverty songbook, I wrote
Fear nothing but to do some wrong
Yet I wrote nothing about being broke
All because poverty made me strong.

From birth, I've sung the poverty song
It's about a unilateral fight against poverty
I know the road to the summit is long
I'll rest at nothing until I dwell in prosperity.

There's a verse in the book about perseverance
It's the main reason for which I wrote the song
In there I thanked God for His grace and Providence
For it's within his grace where we all belong.

In my poverty songbook, I left out a lot of things.
There ain't a single verse about laziness and self-pity.
I instead included a request for a Timberland and wings
These two I'll need to get about and do my hustle duty.

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Saturday, February 3, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: poverty
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The quest to escape poverty is the reason people like me made it...I used it as a yardstick and a prism.
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Ivan Brooks Sr

Ivan Brooks Sr

Monrovia, Liberia
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