Discredited

A Lament

 

Discredited

 

Alas and alack now life is hard.

They cancelled out my credit card

I used to live in luxury

now I’m condemned to poverty

 

My firm downsized and let me go.

Which put an end to my cash flow

My bank foreclosed; I could not pay

therefore they took my house way

 

My wife divorced me and she left.

I’m single homeless and bereft.

I face a life of misery.

Nobody wants to hire me.

 

I’m not too old to start again

 given the opportunity

 but I must make do until then

 on other peoples charity.

 

The fat cat bankers are to blame.

Lending without security

 Increasing profits was their aim

That’s why they acted recklessly.

 

The system failed, it had to come.

/o many could or would not pay.

Vast profits had been made by some

but now hard times are here to stay.

 

The fat cats will escape Scott free

The government will bail them out

 condoning their dishonesty

 The fat cats will not go without.

 

To me it is a travesty

which really makes me furious

It seems there is apparently

one law for them one law for us

 

Though none of us can claim to be

 in every way quite innocent

We could get credit easily

 because of this we overspent.

 

Could not have done, had they not lent

with disregard for fiscal rules.

 Its hard to say in the event

between us who were bigger fools.

 

The lenders or the borrowers

I think the lenders deserve blame

They tempted us with their offers

and changed the rules to suit their game.

 

It is the small man always pays.

The present system is corrupt

 I think its time to change our ways

Declare the fat cats all bankrupt.

 

Root out and fine the guilty men

why should they always get away?

To milk the system once again

by acting in the same old way.

 

I think its time to call a halt

and re-establish old values.

The rotten system is at fault

I think most folk will share my views.

 

I’ve said my piece so I will go

back to the street to beg my bread.

 It is and always has been so

I gather from the books I’ve read.

 

29-Nov-08

 

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Reviews

[Emily B]

Job had just such a lament as this. . . I wonder what he would have thought about these modern times.