"Money" - How do you feel during the recession?
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My money doesn’t keep my pockets company like she used to…
She had to leave due to “complications at the world bank”,
I shouted “Let me come with you!”
She replied “You’d never understand”…
So she up and left, I felt cheap, used and dirty
Told me she would return by time I was 30.
Without money I can’t laugh, eat or sleep,
And when I try other girls; I feel like I cheat.
1 million problems and this is just some of them,
I’ve left her 4 voicemails a day,
Emailed her my pics in dismay,
She has replied to none of them.
3 billion men she’s f*cked and I’m one of them.
I asked her to recommend any friends of her calibre,
She texted and recommended me some of em’:
Power and Respect, she said.
But I knew they weren’t the sex, like money was,
I declined and told her I wanted back her honey touch,
The sweetness, the way she folded up in my pocket,
I found a new wallet just for her and I know she’d love it.
I had a feeling she slept about mad,
Attention; she never went without that,
Caught her with loads of other guys,
From gangsters to robbers, landlords to surfers, I tried to confront her but I knew it would hurt us.
Without money I’m worthless.
I can’t hold that against her, she treated me well,
Gave me hope when everywhere I turned there was hell.
Oh money, I’m feeling inadequate,
I need your Midas touch, your feel was immaculate.
Just tell me that you will be back soon, give me those words that I need to hear, somebody said you will return in a year?
Is that true?
P.S
I love you.
Firstly, thanks for your answers, it's so hard in Poetry section to even get any responses because people don't comment poetry that isn't obvious to the eye.
Stephanie - Thanks for the answer, the poem is about how the average "money hungry" man crumbles under the weight of the global recession. He feels that money has somehow cheated him because he doesn't have as much as he did before. I referenced "3 billion other men" in the poem somewhere lol, to signify the widespread effects of the financial markets downfall.
Lalu - Thanks a lot, I always like to get feedback from my contacts. I don't know how I should go about publishing it, I have quite a few poems that I wrote previously, I'll be posting them all up soon, it's just getting answers out of them that is hard lol.
Thankyou Cristina, I appreciate your answer immensely thanks for reading it :)
Lmao, na Training Day I wasn't high. I came in from a party and just felt like writing I don't know why. I always get like that. I have one of those "high minds" I always think about weird stuff and I don't need Weed to do it lol (imagine if i tried it with weed).
Thanks Cocoa Butter :)
I can't possibly choose a best answer so I'll leave it to vote on this one (that's rare for me). Thanks again, check my 360 blog too for newer poems :)