When The Future Disappears.

When the future disappears.

Is poverty a mere rag? 
Or not having a clean haircut?
Is poverty mere dirt?
Or having no reason to live for?

Even when they called for pictures,I was omitted.
But I peep behind a mud stead,
And stand even when I was ambushed by fate,
Disowning the saying "Tomorrow will be fancy".

I look on the river side and say"maybe next year". 
And whisper to the earth "make way!".
Poverty is accepting defeat when the future disappears,
That nothing can be done about it.

They laugh at me and scorn for fun,
But my mother keeps saying" Tomorrow will be better ".
Yes! It's not like you know all about tomorrow,
Just because you lived today.

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