Recession

This is something I wrote today. A friend of mine had to sell is blood today in order to afford food. He's been out of work for 2 months due to this recession.

 

Recession,

A word

Just a word

Inflicts fear

Causes pain

Causes this,

Downward spiral

 

It will not heed,

To our dismay,

Deflation comes to minds,

More suffering,

More fear is inflicted,

 

Blood is sold,

So one can eat,

For jobs are scarce,

And his tummy grumbles.

 

Starvation

Not possible,

Not in this country,

Not in America.

 

But I see it coming,

Food becomes scarce,

Death surrounds us,

If we do not look at history,

Then we shall never change,

For history tells the future,

The future we can change.

Author's Note

Fresh off the keyboard, so keep that in mind.

Reviews

[Passingdaze]

No money=problems. America the beautiful God cast his greed on thee. And punishes you for corruption and neglecting your own.

[@zeewhykay]

Well done, this reeks truth !

''Recession,

A word

Just a word

Inflicts fear

Causes pain

Causes this,

Downward spiral''

I feel exactly the same way. In my opinion, recession is JUST a WORD used to strike fear. Although it's effect is undeniably powerful.

Good work and I feel for your friend, its time to go back to having a garden in the backyard.

[Crazy Cat Man]

this is an absolutely great poem.....it makes me very sad on what were going through in this country. im sorry for what your friend is going through.

[Shelly Araujo]

Your words are perfect for the world wide mess we are all facing. You are right in that it seems we just keeping coming back full circle to these tough times. Maybe you can write us a different future with the power of your words. nice job!