Penny drought daily
Read poverty like a newspaper,
and you'll hear many stories,
crime is the tattered denim
they can find, if they're not compassion
and they lust of money
swallows them with greed
Read "penny drought daily"
they're choking,
so sad and dry,
that they don't even have tears
to weep,
they sob but eyes are cracked
with want,
so anything that shines,
even deception is a magnet
that attracks their hands
Like I said, read "penny drought daily"
a covenant of emptiness,
is breeding hopelessness
because life continues to whip
them with no mercy,
the kind ones, I wishing
if a good soul with the light of the lord
would find them,
but the greedy ones, poverty
has even increased their
thirst for a quaint freedom,
freedom that may come by murder
or extrication that may come from stealing
In the spiral of poverty, the good ones
strongly resist the temptation of evil,
because it is eminent,
read the "penny drought daily"
you'll see it in the eyes
of the idle beings on the street,
then you'll know
what poverty tastes like.
By Kakraba Afful
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