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Slum Life

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People have been scavenging
They have been ravaging
Their hunger can't be compared
to what has the riches we're bared.

In poverty, we seek materials to trade
wasting precious day time until the sun would fade
We have nothing to pacify our raging stomach's
for the money we have wouldn't satisfy our hunger.

Yes, water we drink but we gather them from the sewers
we cannot afford to buy clean and distilled bottled waters
Families, friends, neighbors alike toil under the heat
just for them to try and take a bite out of a piece of meat.

Such agony and deceit, we cannot tolerate this no longer
how we wish that somebody would give us money to launder
a great life we wish to seek
but our hopes and dreams were to high at the peak.

day in and day out, we await for the collector
for garbage they would dump would be our treasure
a kilo of aluminum, would be good for seven coins
but not enough to purchase a piece of loin.

We the people of the slums share this story to you
Rich folk that sit in their sofa's sipping tea for two
I envy them that they won't suffer like us
for we have a life that's not so luxurious to lust.

Never in a day we have ceased to work
Survival fuel's our stomachs and seeking more materials in the murk
if we can't survive another month or two
only death awaits us, and people don't seem to show their mood

Oh how we lust and crave for wealth
for it's the only way we could save our health
when a multimillionaire dies, millions would mourn
and if we, millions would die. None would've cried that they have sworn.
We the people of the slum's, just wished that we were never born.
Life of the people that live in landfills and near sewer's... This is their poetic story
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