Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Ode to the Recession (2010)

Dependent on The Man

There are times when I believe
Money is the only object keeping me from who I need to be
If you add this, subtract that, and then divide
If I only had this much more money in my life
Then God, I promise you everything would be alright
I’m talking my life would be just fine
So with money continually on my mind
Contemplating figures that would allow me to accomplish my aspirations
Constantly making my finances a mathematical equation
I mean from how I’m going to obtain it
How to plan my money arrangement
To how I’m not going to spend it
But simultaneously take care of all my business
Including my requirements, plus my desires
Exercising brain cells I never even knew existed
Just to reach humanity’s misconstrue o f what success it
But wait?
How can I prepare to achieve a decent salary
During economical recession where a Bachelor’s is no longer a credible degree?
My current job isn’t even considering me for a raise
I do great work but their excuse is they can’t afford the pay
I would take into account going back to get my PHD
But how could I afford the loans if nobody now wants to pay me?
Assistance for Grad school, hell, its non existent
Oh, so this is how they intend to keep you in the system
The circle of trust keeps you dependant on the man
Which forces you to stay in a bracket of sociological extortion
No more, no less, just enough to keep you eating out man’s hand
Stagnancy at its best
So even the man with the plan is still dependant on the man
Economical repression, financial congestion
The man the lender, us always the borrowers
A permanent place of pecuniary restriction
Keeping a hindrance on all financial advancement
To them we will always owe, and that’s how they keep us locked in the system
A kind of barter arrangement keeping us financially oppressed
Work now paid later
The catch is you never seem to get paid at all
Start below the bottom just to make it to the top
And the top is not really the top where meritocracy is where they expect us  to stop
Unfortunately, we’re fastened into this circle of trust
Lacking trust at all, just working hard dependant on a man
Functioning methodically just too barely make a change
Will I be forever stuck palm out, open hand?


Stop. Think….God reveals the answer is no!
In God I will trust, my financial blessings will be so!
…………Trust no man, TRUST GOD!

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