The Cadence

The cadence

of the people

sick and tired

willing to leave jobs early

or take leave without pay

to engage in the process

engineered to keep them disengaged

elected officials

sitting atop their dias

aloof

to the truth

of the day to day lives of those they look down on

literally,

they’re sitting up so high,

they’re looking out into the audience,

people seated lower than they

are

they go about their meetings

conducting business,

as is typical,

never thinking twice of the people out there

who couldn’t make it to this meeting,

who are at the ends of their ropes

just praying and waiting and holding out hope

that they’ll have enough money to make it to next week,

or that the state will accidentally drop their food stamps early.

People are really struggling,

and we are somehow finding the money for developers to make a profit

for police to continue expanding

all while the workers, the small business owners, the teachers, the parents,

are trying to make it

living our day to day,

reminding ourselves trouble don’t last always

sometimes we just barely scratch by, but that’s alright.

the cadence

of the people marching in

to the government building,

that their hard earned money paid for,

being belittled by those that they elected

like they just are at odds with the process

because they just don’t know better.

they are just ignorant and need some education

and then they will agree with everything that they’re saying

but isn’t the point of our democracy that we can speak freely,

openly dissent,

and our elected officials are tasked with finding solutions that can benefit the most people,

that can benefit the least of these…

those of us that can’t enjoy a vacation

because every day

we live on borrowed time

borrowing what should be our birthright

joy, freedom, justice, bliss, passion

see we couldn’t fathom what it feels like

life on the other side

where the cadence

is so much different

y’alls is the cadence of living

while we’re steady striving

steady surviving

to march in

to the government building

the cadence

of not knowing

when

enough will truly be enough.