What are you punishing us for?

The house is too hot

and shower's too cold

we never have money

this s**t's getting old

at first it was easy

to sympathize 

but now your kids suffer 

I mean Jesus, guys

Neither are working

or even out of bed

before noon, or sometimes

5 p.m. instead

The a.c. went out last summer

still yet to fix that 

but there's no money laying around

thanks, Mom and Dad

The gas was shut off

Our showers are cold

This poor me business 

Is quickly getting old 

Living off of the government

I guess that's the way

Way to show your children

that stealing's okay

When your seventeen year old daughter

can drag her a*s out of bed

and go to work in the morning

you need hit in the head

Wake up call

It's time to grow up

It's not our fault you had us

We didn't ask to be born

But now that we're here

What are you punishing us for?

Reviews

[Ryan Riley]

Good write! I like the style of your writing in this piece. I can feel the irritation and anger in your question.

[M.A. Biggam]

Bitter ironies of life where a coupling can promise so much yet fail to deliver on the standards at which the world is measured, that said, the standards by which this world is measured are pretty f'd up in my opinion, nice work!!

[Mayank]

It's a deep mess, the question is valid, 110%. Good write.

[AaronFreitas]

Good write... very deep dark truth in the words. I enjoyed reading it :)

[sinNsincerity]

I really loved the way you wrote this. I could really hear your voice as I was reading and I could see some piece of my life in this write...