Hey poverty I got a beef with you
I have peeped behind the curtain
and I see my people hurting,
let my people go!
You have mesmerized minds with captivating songs of captivity
and hypnotized the mass by painting Beautiful distorted pictures of depravity
Your thoughts are like prison bars
that have imprisoned the mentalities of so many
and you have refused to let us go free.
A fairy tale skillfully woven together and sold as truth, like mythology
You're a bully a thief in the night,
robbing society blind,
rocked to sleep in broad daylight,
and you've fed us false dreams,
delusion of grandeur, I can't stand ya
You've tip-toed into the fabric of society
A viral thought taught to keep us hoping and dreaming in vain
As you rain down storms of false ideology,
mirages of wealth, and twisted realities-inverted
Got us chasing the wind to no end
While claiming to be my friend
Oh here you go, the pied piper
Leading so many into debt and destitution
Turning working moms into creakheads
Or so desperate for wealth that they turn to prostitution
Turning young boys claiming to be men into
Drug slanging, gun-toting thugs
as if that's the solution
You have some nerve!!!
You have sold us pipedreams of fallacy
And we have bought stockpiles and bearer bonds,
401k plans of malignant eroding mindsets that have bankrupted our mentality with a corrupt false sense of wealth
Poverty your thoughts of highway robbery kick door Larceny.
mind captive unlawfully
no thought to what the cost would be
turning truth into blasphemy
a web of deception that has captured me
and laid me to rest and your grave of sifted conjecture
you play dirty hitting below the belt.
So I have to listen to you pontificate
and present your opinions as fact
but the truth of the matter is that you only taught us to live in lack
and in want, need, greed,
to consume all that we have
so that we can feed
your appetite
to rob us deceive us
and leave us destitute
you are no more the right choice than forbidden fruit
that has come to pollute
our sense of reasoning,
bleeding us dry,
robbing us of Hope and success in dividends
Poverty, you and your thoughts have gang-rapped our mentality (the mentally of humanity)
and ran trains on our minds like trains of thoughts
violating our innocence and molesting our minds
tainting our perception of prosperity,
insinuating human reasons with offspring of gluttonous thinking
that has so many thinking that enough is never enough,
but I 've had enough of your lies and empty promises
that bounces like checks written from bank accounts with insufficient funds
but the truth is you are insufficient and I'm done…
Your haven taught us to live life led by appetite
to chase everything that glimmers and shine
spinning the wheel like the Price Is Right
you say save nothing,
buy everything
flaunt what you got that's hot
keep up with the Joneses
always chasing the next trend and fad
until you spend all you have
to prove that you have
but you have nothing
broke and still struggling
to pay the bills
and keep off the winter chills
and now you got the summer Blues
because it's evident
when you listen to the voice of poverty you lose
By Beacon Fyah
A.K.A Anthony Morris
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