Nothing Left to Lose - a new poem

Nothing Left to Lose

 

My country slides towards a fascist State

Abandoning freedoms hard won in countless bloody wars

Slapping the faces of those who sacrificed their lives

To ensure a better future for those they left behind.

My country run by people who know nothing of real life

And who know nothing of sacrifice and sacrificed nothing themselves

Leaving a devastated population starving, impoverished

And with nothing left to lose.

I slide towards Oblivion, let the eternal darkness come

Losing gains I thought I’d made in personal little victories

Slapped in the face by those I thought respected me

Whilst trying to build myself a better life.

My progress ruined by people who think nothing of my life

In my despair, my enemies delight

I’ve nowhere left to go, no alternative route to choose

So I just wait for death to come because I’ve nothing left to lose.

© Myles Cook, 29/01/2014

This is a first draft and probably isn't very good as a result but does get some feelings about the current state of my country and recent events in my own life out of my head so it has served its purpose.

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