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Rated: E · Poetry · Experience · #2105429
Reflecting on class, status, and how one should react.
Should I feel guilty about minding,
My first-world problems,
Knowing there's a third out there,
Because the TV shows me,
Kids with sullen eyes and flies on protruding ribs
And I know some don't have houses,
Still others are trafficked for their bodies,
Or live in the middle of war zones?

Should I feel guilty for being traumatized,
My childhood of bullying and taunted,
Feeling unwanted by so-called friends,
Me having a father, albeit he absentee,
And missing out on this,
But having a home always to go to,
Not having a doubt whether I would eat,
Living in a fairly peaceful neighborhood?

Should I feel guilty for remembering adolescent angst,
Unnoticed by girls, a sweet listening friend,
Not stirring her desire to fuck me,
But her talking about the guy masturbating to her later,
Didn't it into the cool social clique but having free education,
Because others have no school and try to come here,
They aren't worried about Erickson's Identity vs Confusion,
Because their identity is to survival,
And it won't happen unless they make it so?

Should I feel guilty for college emotional disturbance,
This highest suicide rate in this country,
Signing up for the draft without conscription,
Considering suicide over existential issues,
Going to therapy having thought myself in circles,
Judging my parents, but at least having them,
Resenting my job, but money's for fun and toys,
Spending cash and an apartment away from folks?

Should I feel guilty for adult stress,
Worrying about house, retirement, vacations and Christmas,
Marrying the right person, for romance and passion,
Having 2.5 children, finding good schools,
Wanting better life for progeny,
Not having to tweet in a revolution,
Or face likely imprisonment anywhere,
Unless I'm a complete twit?

Should I feel guilty for being inward,
Ignoring if not those abroad then those here,
Having my own life to live,
Who gets the final rose on The Bachelor,
Or which series to Netflix binge next,
Knowing I'm lucky to be born here,
And others, not so much,
Should I feel guilty?

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