100 Fathoms Deep

I was watching a video with Kamala Harris and she used a term that was very interesting, so much that it inspired a poem.

Punishment for Poverty

You punish me for the poverty

that you systematically put me in.

so not only my skin color,

but my bank account is my sin?

no golden parachute, no inside trading of stocks

or money bulging and falling out of a safe deposit box.

No secret bank account on a remote island location.

Just still a victim of financial discrimination.

There needs to be a financial revolution across this land.

No bail, better wages, and affordable housing should be in demand.

Enough with the voter suppression

and other underhanded schemes.

A United States of America shouldn't

be something I just see in my dreams.

Keeping it together during

this financially stormy weather

is even harder than it seems.

© 12/22/2020, Phillip L. Moore