One Of The Working Poor

One without a partner or children or wife In his mid twenties in the prime of his life Who secretly believes he would be better off dead Then he would be quite free of worries instead Than having to work hard for nine hours every week day For well below award wages on weekly survival pay Financially poor, depressed and feeling down One of the working poor of the poor side of the town By postal address of a fair go in life denied In a suburb that has a high rate of suicide A weekly wage has not freed him of poverty he has come to realize In a World of many working poor this is not a surprise With little hope of happiness or success in the years ahead He often does feel that he would be better off dead.