Tough Times

Cyni1106 on Jun 9, 2011

Tags: cans, economy, food, future, homeless, RECYCLE, routine, Trash

What are we doing to ourselves and others. Time to think about things and reorganize. Don’t you think so too.

She catches the bus every morning bags in hand

Gets off in the city, hits the trash for recycles and fills the bags

Down to the other trash cans and picks up more recycles

Does this all day long, that’s the living she makes

People do make a living by doing this

Then I thought of the possibilities, time, effort

Calculated the profits, 10 maybe 20 dollars per day

Times 7 days a week, 70 to 140 a week

Then times 4 weeks to a month, 210 to 560 a month.

Not bad for a daily routine if you have nothing better to do.

I been seeing this happen more often

It’s sad to see that people have to survive like this

Really is this what it’s coming to with jobs shrinking

Promises of a future, dreams broken, education worth less

Cost of food rising, everything around us is rising.

Homes being taken away, because of job losses

Wars being fought because of no compromise

Wake up America, can we stop this before it’s too late!

By Cynthia Aholelei © June 9, 2011

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megamatt09 on Jun 9, 2011
Tough times are here, have been here, and are going to be there to stay.
duckletshut on Jun 9, 2011
interesting read!
Martin Kloess on Jun 10, 2011
good work
Elle64 on Jun 10, 2011
Sad there is so much despair everywhere-i hope things will change soon.
susan on Jun 11, 2011
what one has to do to survive
neopisiva on Jun 11, 2011
Definiton of tough times differes from country to country…imagine how it is for those in Africa…they would like to have the troubles you are describing…
darkangel1 on Jun 12, 2011
our eyes are blind to our own actions because they are too busy open for greed at times. Its tough everywhere we sometimes got to understand others have it far worse than us but our society can be very selfish at times
yellow rose on Jun 13, 2011
good work…
abah animasi on Jun 13, 2011
Very good. I think ideas like this only exist in a developing country like that in my place
kanivel on Jun 14, 2011
I agree with you cyni1106, where you say “It’s sad to see that people have to survive like this”. All of us have felt like this sometime or the other.
Peace Poet on Jun 14, 2011
I agree with the sublime thoughts revealed by your impressive poem. These are really tough times. More and more violence instead of Peace and compromise. What an excellent poem!
chandrra on Jun 14, 2011
Always the situation in life won’t be the same . Time has a great power called change . Surley its going to change
1hopefulman on Jun 14, 2011
Mankind is in a mess and needs help. Only God can help us now.
vietnam on Jun 14, 2011
very good work indeed

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