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Sons of Calamity

Sons of Calamity

You're so advantaged to have the confidence and competency to participate in adult life
 
You have no idea how humiliating it is to be us
 
We are the ones who had a kick in the guts that hit us out for six
 
While we try to catch our breath all else we can do is watch your gold and silver laps of the pool
 
We are the ones who had a smack to the head one too many times
 
We've given up defending our cracked skulls
 
And let the insanity of our dead brain cells poison us into a slow demise
 
A social termination that laughs with you laughing at us
 
By the time we awake from the coma it's game over
 
And you patronise us from the windows of your fancy villas and luxury cars  
 
As we drown in pools of piss in the gutter 

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Gwendoline

What I got from this is it gives the reader a reality check. I have worked in hospices and took stock many times of how valuable it is to be me. To have the chance to live fully as a healthy human. To not have it cut short. This piece speaks out for those who can’t and it’s a powerful poem. People can be cruel to the vulnerable, I have seen it myself. Thanks for writing this 

Gwen :) 

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Pratibha Savani

Hi Al....I hear you and Gwen's comments. A thoughtful piece. Px

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