Fighting through life
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Neighborhood kids playing with balls
now they're playing with drugs.
*tick*
"I want to be an astronaut when I grow up"
now they've dropped out.
*tick*
"Mommy can I get this toy car?"
The old man crossing the fens
curses the missing moon
'You have left me,' he cries,
'with no light in the skies.'
Nobody cares -
but he fights on, slogging
through mud