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This government has only brought pain // Debi Gregory
Debi writes about why this government has only brought pain
I am heart sick with anger and bitterness.
I see children kicking people while they’re down, their anger the only emotion they understand and can therefore control.
I see parents so apathetic and numb to poverty and forced depression that schools are left to raise children devoid of hope and understanding.
I see teenagers, children, delight in causing pain because pain is the only friend they have.
I see grandparents, great grandparents, look on in despair as their hopes, dreams and hard work goes up in smoke.
I see the media fanning the flames of desperation, consternation, a devoid nation.
I see a nation devoid of hope, of empathy, of understanding, of dreams beyond their means that make sense in a world that isn’t built in Hollywood.
I see a government with their strings, a spider sitting in her web, filling her lines with fat cats and desperately struggling worker bees.
I see her filling herself and I see the overflowing corpses fall from her nest of destruction while she lures more in with venomous smiles and twitches and gestures.
Photograph by Aaron Thomas
I see people who should be proud, people who are the spine in this skeletal, dystopian sweat shop.
I see people who don’t know their worth and louder people undervaluing them until they believe their worth is only worth the price of another’s dignity.
I see destruction.
I see despair.
I see bitterness and desolation.
I see eyes pointed towards me and feet pointing away.
I see cherub faces smiling while dimpled hands are shaking.
I see spongy minds conferring with the shiny shouting screens.
I see the eyes filling slowly as the hope loses focus.
I see the eyes close tightly against the next step.
I see the next step taken, the step I can’t stop.
I see the door closing tightly on the future I can’t block.
Photograph taken by Clem. O.