{"id":735,"date":"2014-06-03T14:18:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2014-09-24T14:20:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T14:20:24","slug":"unable-to-understand-the-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/unable-to-understand-the-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Unable to Understand the Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tullamore
Tullamore Courthouse and Gaol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unable to understand the anger
\nThat seems to emanate
\nFrom some folk who fight the world
\nBecause they are from an estate
\nThey think the worlds against them,
\nThat they are sure to fall,
\nThey fail to see, that also for me,
\nIts a problem faced by all.<\/p>\n

They got a free home – we paid for ours,
\nIt took us a hundred years
\nThree generations of working farmers
\nWorry, sweat and tears.
\nThere was little education,
\nYou took in life what you could
\nFor all the problems in your life…
\nYou saw all in life as good.<\/p>\n

How is it that homes are seen just as stones,
\nWith life people cannot cope
\nIs it that folk are forgotten,
\nWe forgot to give them hope?
\nCould there be a time they see a place in the world
\nGive unto them what then should have been
\nAs there was jobs and a role given in life
\nWhen the British settled the Spailp\u00c3\u00adn?<\/p>\n

But we did not do that for those,
\nWho Lumpenproletariat by Marx were called
\nWho himself at them despaired
\nThrowing his hands up, appalled
\nShould we not be more progressive than he
\nSee all as equal, as all have yearned…
\nFight for opportunity for all, reason for hope…
\nWhat will follow is a respect for themselves and the world they’ll have earned.<\/p>\n

But then again, it is not as it is presented,
\nThese “artists” and their angst expressed loud…
\nEmpty buckets rattle the most…
\nThey do not speak for the crowd…
\nThe 90% who DO make the most of the world…
\nWhere-ever they come from or may be…
\nDon’t blame their circumstances for their lives,
\nHate outsiders and the Gardai…<\/p>\n

So the next time you hear a gurrier
\nTalk of their hardships and such crap…
\nRemember hes not the 90% of where he is from…
\nHe is just one lonely chap.
\nMarx was wrong about the Lumpenproletariat…
\nAll working class folk, we are the same…
\nMost of us unseen work away quietly…
\nThe shysters make of their circumstances a game…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unable to understand the anger That seems to emanate From some folk who fight the world Because they are from an estate They think the worlds against them, That they are sure to fall, They fail to see, that also for me, Its a problem faced by all. 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