What Am I?

By jolono

Tue, 23 Jun 2015
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12 comments
 

I’m a thing

A word

An action

A thought

A number.

 

I cut,

I bleed

I tear

I rip

I destroy.

 

I am your boss

Your landlord

Your Bank

Your Master

Your Nightmare.

 

I am the opposite

to Robin Hood.

Like the Tin Man

I have no heart.

But I'm fierce as a lion.

 

I'm on Posters

In papers

On TV

On radio.

On line.

 

I am faceless

yet you know me.

Know my name

hear it everwhere.

In every language.

 

I am clever

I am cunning

I am crafty

It's not my fault

You're to blame.

 

Know who I am yet?

I'm Austerity

And I will cut YOU down.

 

 

Certificate 15
Poem
Poems of Life and Love
Rant

Comments

Submitted by Deliberately Ev... on

Clever. I like the short lines.

The beat of your heart is the mellifluent rhythm to my soul.

Submitted by Bee on

Brilliant rant with a nasty voice of our own making.

Bee

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

I like that it's pared down, austere in the writing.  So strange that we allow ourselves to be subject to such meanness.  Fat cats purring that it's for the good of the country, as they absent-mindedly slash us to the bone with a careless claw.

Submitted by Pat G on

Oh, how much I agree with your great, angry rant - beautifully sharp in its delivery.

Submitted by jolono on

Many thanks for the read AE.

 

Submitted by jolono on

Thanks Bee. I get really annoyed when I hear this new word being banded about!

 

Submitted by jolono on

Thanks PS. Strange how Austerity only really applies to some people...

 

Submitted by jolono on

Hi Pat G. Need a good rant now and again.

 

Submitted by celticman on

I like austerity, the Calvinist idea of the chosen showing they are god's elite by tearing down the false idols of conspicious consumption. Or maybe it's just a great ruse and what am I? makes me think I've been on the booze. It's genetic. Some people are born with an impulse to push other's under economic juggernauts and laugh and tell them it's for their own good. 

 

Submitted by jolono on

Couldn't agree more CM.

 

Submitted by Shannan on

For the lesser educated younguns like me:
noun

1.
sternness or severity of manner or attitude.
"he was noted for his austerity and his authoritarianism"

2.
difficult economic conditions created by government measures to reduce public expenditure.
"the country was subjected to acute economic austerity"

 

Submitted by jolono on

Thanks for reading Shannan. Hope you're keeping well.