The Working Class Hero

Inspired by John Lennon's song working class hero

The working man trades his life for a wage

With a false since of pride his title is his cage

His back like iron, his head like rock

Unknowingly the slave a servant of the clock

 

The ambition within wants only to be expressed

But the devotion to false obligations keeps it repressed

From miles around with thier punch cards they came

The working class heros with no sense of shame

 

Our hero must stay busy for time equals money

No rest for a peasant in the land of milk and honey

He hopes someday for a brighter tomorrow

But these dreams only come when he's drowning his sorrow

 

Hoping his children wont live life this way

But from day one they were workers without even a say

Just one more cog in a richer mans plan

Thier fates are sealed, to die with a shovel in there hand

 

Author: M.Rose

Author's Note

ignore grammar problems,

Reviews

[LeeLee Ryder]

Very cool and right on poetry about the cycle of recycled clock watchers...
The beginning is AWESOME !! Some definitely are titled, labeled and destined
to live life in a cage (A cubicle you could say) ... It's sad we all have to work
medial jobs to survive this capitalistic society... If it up to me, I'd rather
write, dance, and sing all day but few do ... Cog it!
LLR

[Elissa; the genuine art..]

This is an amazing write.
I'd have to say the line that hit me the hardest was;
"The ambition within wants only to be expressed
But the devotion to false obligations keeps it repressed"
It's an unfortunate truth.
Magnificently written.

-Elissa :D

[SummerJoy60]

don't give up on the working man yet, though just a cog, society would topple without him, he just doesn't know it (it's a part of the plan)

how about a poem for the working man on one of his good days? eases the sorrow but not the problem???

good poem!