Injustices

So this year, I think I'm going to try something a bit different than last time I did a year of blogs. I think I'm going to try and post either a short scene/story or a poem every Thursday all year long, starting today.  I haven't been writing half as often as I should like to, after all, and I think this will get me back into writing once more, and it will get the blog active again! Yay!  So, I suppose, welcome back!  I hope you all enjoy the new scenes and thoughts.

Injustices
I have seen a boy with low credit,

At age five,

Because in order to have a phone,

His mother put the bill in his name,

And could not pay.

I have seen two parents with degrees,

Two teachers,

Unable to send their only son,

To college because two college grads,

Are not paid well.

I have seen educated women,

Flipping meat,

College degrees in their back pockets,

Without connections for a good job,

In their learned field.

I have seen men, who risked their own lives,

Homeless now,

Who gave all their self, their minds and bodies,

And now live trapped, no purpose, alone,

Their support gone.

I have seen these immoral forced acts,

Choices gone,

People stuck in ways they did not choose,

Punished, for not being born with

Silver or gold spoons.