Elucidating Questions

Poverty

You’re acting like I put them there

Like I have access to any method of fixing it

Me, leech on the system which is currently benefiting from my poverty

And you’re worried about your safety

When you have a home to go home to and feel safe in at night

And you look to me, who has only the poverty that I am living through in solidarity in perpetuity with them

I’m going to bed hungry tonight

But you want me to keep you safe from the angry homeless people

You never have time for me but you want me to have a solution to poverty for you while I exist in poverty

Oh and when I’m just kind of probably on their side,

Because if they were guaranteed housing and food in their belly they might just be able to not be angry and on drugs, or having a mental breakdown the street

Because the only difference between me and them is a caring landlord

You block me

Because God forbid I be poor and on the side of the poor people

It’s fine you’re living your happily ever after with your happy little family and don’t need me anymore

No one needs me I’m literally just a poor disabled person

This is what society is teaching me

I’m not worthy of a job, I’m not worthy of time and attention, I’m not worthy

And you

You sit there in the house that you own with your family and attention and support that you no longer need from me

And I truly do understand that you feel unsafe

But I also truly do understand the only way to solve this problem is to secure assured housing and food.

I told you the solution

Besides writing the government that doesn’t care instead of changing the government so it does

I quite understand the problem this is the solution

I can afford food or I can afford rent

I could easily become one of those scary people on the street

God I hate the silence of a conversation people don’t want to have