Whose Life Is This? What Life Is This?

“Whose Life Is This? What Life Is This?” is a poignant meditation on the harsh realities of poverty, unemployment, and lost dreams. Through vivid imagery and a tone of quiet despair, the poem traces a

In childhood, shadows of want,
In youth, no work �" no job in hand.
Love, in a home of need,
Slips out the window, silent and unseen,
Leaving behind a hope wrapped in smoke.

From birth until the final breath,
A mind weighed down by thoughts of shelter,
A belly counting meals,
A weary heart chasing work �"
And losing daily to the clock of time.

Whose life is this?
What life is this?