Elucidating Questions

It’s sad because I’ve been saying this since I was 16 and working for McDonald’s

Where they scheduled me for full time hours, forcing me to drop out of school

That the whole focus of society

Was making more poor people, and the rich richer

And people try to guilt others, saying if they aren’t an active part of the resistance they’re a problem because they can just do something

But my voice never changed anything

I watched on in horror as adults on Facebook tried to school me on economics

When they belittled me and told me I’d figure it out when I grew up

Seeing the world around me slowly fall into disrepair

Only for rich people to buy it up for fancy condos or fancy shops no one can afford

How they screamed at me, the minimum wage worker, even at 16, to just move somewhere else

As if every poor person evacuating a city wouldn’t cause pandemonium

Oh and as if it was possible

I want to do an experiment

Where every person who worried about food or rent this month just didn’t go to work on a set day

But of course they’re worried about food and rent and can’t do that

And that’s the point

They made protest legal but made it impossible for anyone to properly mobilise

Protests done with millions wishing they could have

I tried so hard

And still this is my world

And I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels like just giving up because they won’t listen

Intent on their own destruction

I don’t know what to do now, truthfully

Because it feels like it’s too late

It feels like they win

The world is in chaos

While they live their vacation life

Not concerned with the damages they do to anything on Earth including she herself

Please tell me how to bring it into proper alignment

I don’t know the answers

I just knew all along that something was wrong

I think it has something to do with each person seeing others as an equally valid and deserving human being.

But it’s not like I can foresee exactly what happens

How

You leave me to ponder at the back door

Agonize at the back door

With my tiny megaphone into the web

Is it even on?

Better for humanity

That’s what I want

Collectively

None of this living a fine life in our “developed” countries while there are people literally starving

Even in our “developed” countries themselves

But the megaphone I tried to scream into was broken

And the world asked

What now?