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You had barely started crawling
When your stubbornness appeared
Though I stood up to your bawling
I could not stop the thing I feared
I just wanted you to pay attention
To submit to the natural order of things
Tragically despite my best intention
I could not undo what your internal order brings
You cannot seem to grasp what you are paying
To possess whatever becomes your obsession
For these teenage games you're now playing
You've cashed in your most prized possession
The community of your family life
Exchanged for a politician's culture
Kin respect for a dog eat dog life
What do you expect of your future?
When your stubbornness appeared
Though I stood up to your bawling
I could not stop the thing I feared
I just wanted you to pay attention
To submit to the natural order of things
Tragically despite my best intention
I could not undo what your internal order brings
You cannot seem to grasp what you are paying
To possess whatever becomes your obsession
For these teenage games you're now playing
You've cashed in your most prized possession
The community of your family life
Exchanged for a politician's culture
Kin respect for a dog eat dog life
What do you expect of your future?
Published 28th Jan 2018
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31st Jan 2018 9:42am
Can not help but feel you are pointing out america and our current president with this piece. Not sure that was your intention or just my own disgust with him. Either way your work spoke to me.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing.
31st Jan 2018 3:26pm
Thank you! I didn't see that one, but my piece unfortunately reflects a perversity in many walks of life that abounds in the midst of other "first world problems" (Weird Al song reference)
I am rabidly apatheticly apoliltical anymore, thanks only in part to the last election cycle. Haha!
Politics don't amuse or inspire my hope while other forms of activity engage me and give me hope.
I am rabidly apatheticly apoliltical anymore, thanks only in part to the last election cycle. Haha!
Politics don't amuse or inspire my hope while other forms of activity engage me and give me hope.
12th Aug 2018 8:31am
Although politics was not the primary intention of your poem, after reading the first comment could not help imagining some of our more vocal politicians in their nappies crawling around on kitchen floors! 'Natural order of things' is something they either disagree about or do not believe in at all.
