Saturday, June 5, 2021

take this job

Some people have had it with their job 

Fed up with the intolerable conditions of employment 

Imposed on them working through the pandemic 

Ready to leave to look for something better 


Many out of work have no job to go back to 

Forced to try to find new employment 

When there may be no market for their skills 

In an economy that has shifted significantly 


All these people hoping for a dream job

Meaningful work with good pay and being treated well 

Though few are lucky to get even two out of three 

And too many jobs don't provide even one 


Only if you are young and dare to take the risk 

Unafraid you might end up broke living in the street

The scary plight that coerces most people 

To put up with whatever pays the bills 


When winning the lottery is completely improbable 

What then can individual people do 

To escape losing our lives to one long grind

As long as the system remains in place 


Oh how I hate the capitalist system

That weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living

That trapped all the dead generations before us

That is stealing the future of the planet