Life or Lifestyle

Crisis of life or lifestyle crisis?

Are you suffering an acute form

of hypocritis?

Can’t afford your two

coffee-shop coffees a day?

Can’t afford your weekly fancy takeaway?

Can’t afford the mindless,

endless consumerism

that keeps the illusion

of the economy going?

Well, it’s clear it’s the system

that needs overthrowing.

People are starving, freezing, dying

because of choices made by those who

never had to stop and think

if they can afford that pair of shoes;

others never had the luxury to choose—

except right now: starve or freeze.

But of course, that’s their own fault

because getting better paid work

is a breeze.

The old, the ill, the disabled;

the poor who had no funds to rise

so they can get a place at the table.

Deemed non-people by so-called leaders,

weak, useless users.

But the only takers are the ones

who rig the system for their own good,

the class of socio-economic abusers.


Saraphir Camille is a poet and singer-songwriter based in Edinburgh, Scotland. When not writing and singing she is teaching movement or playing with yarn. You can read more on www.saraphircamille.com.

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