Babies forced out of infancy <br />To journey to adulthood overnight <br />Women in cages <br />Workers eating hunger, sweating blood <br />People living in doghouses <br />Such wretchedness <br />Such pain <br />Such darkness <br />I turn on the light in a small corner <br />The darkness gets deeper <br />I feel like a banana peel <br />In a roadside trashcan <br />After the fruit flies’ feast <br />A blown-up tire <br />An empty baby formula can <br /> <br />Useless <br />Waiting for the garbage truck <br /> <br />(Written during one of those moments when nothing seemed to be going right; 24 March 2004)<br /><br />Cheryl L. DaytecYañgot<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hopelessness-6/
