Poverty



Poverty!
Everything in me it's just useless!
Every moment of my life feels helpless.
Nothing in this world felt okay and so why am I still alive , arriving in this world full of hopes and dreams but now I'm here in the streets empty handed.
Why am I being punished because I'm innocent?
The tears will dry when my coffin goes down! Like a dog I ate in those dustbins
Like an elephant I slept on those bushes
Like a bird I searched for food daily without my mother's help!
This is me cleaning people's yards inorder to live!
Why me?

About this poem

A child suffering from a state of poverty after being left by her mother. She grew up in the streets.

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Submitted by faithsbongile0 on August 02, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBCDBEFGA
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 537
Words 108
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10

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