A blst of artic air
That chills you to the bone
Comes down from the northern sky
And leaves you blue with cold
Frigid and freezing
The winds they gust
Raw and bitter
You sneeze and you cough
Your teeth they chatter
As blood fills your lungs
Until your fingers and toes
They feel cut off
And so you tremble and shake
And you ice over and shiver
Afraid of the frostbite
That begins to set in
Only now the weather prophets
They predict more of the same
Upon you gloomy and hopeless
And worn out brain
And so you brace for the worst
But it’s still not enough
As the wind hits your face
With a gale-like gust
Whose tempest cries out
With a howl and a roar
Violent and raging
At the height of the storm
Bringing ice clouds down from above
Which shield the suns rays
So dark thick and dense
The warm heat departs for days
With the moon now full
Causing the tides to rise high
Surging the seas and rivers
Below the black northern sky
So cold now and tired
And yet you can’t even sleep
As your mind just races
With thoughts that run deep
As you don’t even know
If you’ve slept at all
For how much or how long
You can’t even tell
And so you stay up all night
Waiting for the sun to return
Praying for daylight
Hoping your tomorrow will be warm
And so you keep awake
Despite it all
When all you now want
Is to sleep some more
Until your left sad and distraught
And full of despair
As one who never cries
Gets reduced to bitter tears
Only how did I get here?
With no shelter or home
How could they do this?
When it was no fault of my own
For I’m simply a poet
Who writes the truth
Attacking greed and corruption
And the capitalist system they’ve built
And so the silence and censor
And they take everything away
My career, my life, even my gorgeous wife
Without compensation, or recourse, fair value or pay
And so you work and you work
You’re whole life long
Only never to receive
What you truly deserve
Unrecognized and forgotten
Neglected and ignored
Never once receiving
Your hard earned just reward
Never acquitted or pardoned
Never delivered or saved
Just banned and blacklisted
By the devil himself
With no applause from the crowd
No tribute or ovation
No appreciation or thanks
Just your own self recognition
Not even a blessing or benediction
Not even a single prayer
Without praise or credit
Without gratitude or care
For the devil does rule
This earth he now owns and controls
As God only has claim
To your spirit and soul
So Satan he buys up his demons
And fills them with vengeance and spite
Brutal and sadistic
Not knowing wrong from right
As corporate contracts are signed
After the souls have been sold
These heartless demons turn cruel
Leaving them ruthless and cold
With no compassion or pity
With no mercy or forgiveness
With deaf ears to my sorrows
They claim their pound of flesh
Hard and severe
Ruthless and cruel
Vindictive and spiteful
Over our hell they do rule
As their bull market it soars
Towards another new record high
While the temperature does fall
On our battered homeless minds
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