CATCH 22

CATCH 22

If you don't
Listen
You can't hear

If you don't wish
You don't get

At times
What you wish
You might get

But
Be careful
What you wish

For you might get
What you don't
Want

Like the Con-Lib
Government

If you don't plan
You can't implement

If you can't
Visualise
You can't see

Catch 22

Rousseau tells us
Man is naturally good
But corrupted by society
Which he created

Catch 22

How come we witness
Man's inhumanity to man?
Meted out by Rousseau's man

A fundamental question

Catch 22

If you eat you exist
If thirsty
Drink plenty

Your advice sounds nice
I said
But food and drink
Is beyond my reach
'Coz I am not rich

If I can't work
I can't
Eat or drink

How do I
Feed and assert myself?

Be independent
Plan for my self

Catch 22

Caught between
Life and destitution
Wish is not
What I want

But advices
Practical
Enabling me
Use my skills

Don't want to be
At the mercy of Government
Receicing hand out
Does not make
Me content

Where I come from
You Work to earn a living
But if I can't work
Is it worth living?

Catch 22

Try hard
If you can
I was told

But how is it done?
If not given a chance

Catch 22

Reminds me
Of thousands of people
In similar situations

Asylum seekers
Not allowed to work
Can barely exist
Are in a Catch 22
Situation

Their lives are in a twist
If allowed to work
Can pay tax

Become confident and
Independent

For they are not
Here to relax

If allowed to work
Can pay tax

Support the economy to
Relax

They are not tourists
But people who
Escaped persecutions

Don't
Want to merely exist
Prefer to
Live and work

Prove
To many bigots
They are
Not parasites

Work
Can give them
Dignity
Affordability

Enabling them contribute
To society
Just need a chance
To regain their
Confidence and
Say

We are here to
Stay and
Ready
To serve & work
Are not a liability
But valuable
Assets to society