` Longstem Promises`

 

 

 

There's no entitlement in life other than your name on a birth certificate

The system spreads you like putty over a thin surface turning you upside down;

then saturates your every move with man made rules and longstem promises.

 

 They comfort and caress you like a bedspread

 pretending they have you covered just incase you

mess up yet another time, telling you to " just be patient  these things take time "

 

 Consequently you wait for results hoping to see the glass half full once more

It never happens to turn out in your favor anyway; although you're

infatuated on a postive note with the idea that ` hey maybe this time it will be different.... but they have the upper hand, the preeminence to say how it's going to play out.

 

You finally realize you're just the poor peon that is left toiling in the daily grind etching out a living as they squeeze life's blood until you have no more to give, then made to feel contrite and end up doing penitence for their BS!

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

The poem is amazing. I could discuss and agree with lines of this poem. I like all the strong statements. The ending is my favorite.
"as they squeeze life's blood until you have no more to give"
Thank you for the excellent poem.
Coyote

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Simply amazing, I also found some truth in this,
Very nicely written.

[Marie Harrison]

Loved your poem, especially the opening.
I could feel the emotion and the ire in the poem.
I could sense how wrong the situation was to the poet.
Strong poem.