There have always been haves and have nots

There always will be haves and have nots

Once I was a have not, now I’m a have

Or am I?

I have what I can afford

All that I can’t, I have not

Things out of my realm

I dream about

And that suffices

So now society hangs on the spin of a coin

Crumbles when want is all

 

Where are our role models?

Where did they all go?

Mine, a destitute mother

On a minimum wage

with a paralysed husband…

And yet we never asked why

Or begrudged the wealth that others had

Or the slap that told us we were wrong

‘Peas are getting above the sticks’ she’d say

before those peas were cut down…

 

Something’s gone wrong

And it’s not just the economy

Its not the bankers

The greedy politicians

Or the fat man who drives the jag…

The problem lies

At home.