To Live Like Me

[Brokenhearts]

i cnt remember if I posted this- but hey

To live like me
Means to have more than you need
Means that you have food on your plate
Energy in your body
Clothes on your back
Roof over your head
And a place where you
Can lay your head at night

To live like me
Means to know what it’s like to be hated
Means to know what’s like to be left
To be kicked when your beaten
To be spat at when wet
To be called cruel names
As the tears coarse down your face

To live like me
Means that you do not know your self
Means you do not know others
You do not know who to trust
Who to turn to
Who can be told
About the nightmares that haunt you

To live like me
Means you forget all reason to life
Means you do not care what happens
You’re recklass
You’re careless
You couldn’t care less
For the danger that exists around you

To live like me
Means that nothing
At all
Touches you
Any
More

[Cy Skywalker]

This is to live like so many...
A little of the rhythm is stiff, but most is good.

[scarecrow]

The first verse doesn't seem to fit with everything else, IMO. I like the rest though. Vaguely saddening.

[Cy Skywalker]

I think it fits, cause the title evokes 'how the other half lives', about poor people's existance. But this poem says that people with good economic quality of life have problems too.

[scarecrow]

OH, I think I get it now! It's show life from both perspectives, and about how they both have their trials (right?).

I stink at poetry. Really I do.