Fired up, then Fired

Fired up, then Fired

 

 

severance

the end of a decade

ideals let go

we need to downsize

too much peace and love

 

can't afford so much kindness

and please,

 

shut that damn music off.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

6/21/2021

Reviews

[Pete]

yup - that's how it usually goes down. some even culminate in guns being fired too. one man's music is another man's noise. i'd definitely be seeing a pink slip. each decade seems to chant its mantra until it is heard ... :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for your insightful words, Pete,
j.

[Coyote Poetry]

I don't know Jacob.
"can't afford so much kindness
and please,
shut that damn music off."
Maybe with time. We need and want less? Thank you for sharing your amazing poetry and your thoughts.
Coyote

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I have always needed less and been pretty happy with whatever I have had...but for some of us, I guess the ideals have never changed. Thank you so much for your words, Coyote,
j.

[Coyote Poetry]

When old age. We learn. We don't need everything. You are welcome Jacob.

[Laura Kate]

Sounds like a refusal to grow, choosing not to put in the effort for something that is good and pure.If work related the harsh reality of being let go when you're not needed anymore, regardless of any commitment, loyalty and respect shown to the company. It happens so often now.

Downsize - often used with material items but in your poem means the opposite of material value and wealth, but there's a downsizing of values, morals and kindness.

Shut that damn music off

Music - freedom, liberation, connection.
Someone is trying to shut it down... but, faintly in the distance, I know it's still playing.

Best wishes,
Laura.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

you pinpoint emotions I have felt about those days and what we have now...thank you, Laura,
j.

[Crowley]

Lol...so much illusion when it comes to face to face these days. They don't even bother with practicing their slight of hand. Hell I would turn the music up and wait for security.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Crowley,
j.

[Chris Shaw]

shut that damn music off, (not alot of kindness there, is there? ")

Never says I

Jobs come and go but music is for ever.

Wot's going on here J? Doesn't seem like a smiling matter.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

somehow the movement just died out...and with it, the music that drove us through it all.
thanks, Chris.

[Chris Shaw]

You know I got disorientated. I was walking dien the street in another time and another place :)

[Chris Shaw]

Oops look at the typo, I meant down