A man must live.
He must needs shelter
He must needs sustenance
He must needs purpose
He must needs survive
He must live
He places the mortar
and stacks the brick
He sows the seed
and picks the crop
He shovels the shit
and works the waste -
neckdeep
until he -
sniffs it, samples it,
swallows it
Humiliation! Indignity!
He serves to survive
He must live
He is given little thanks
He provides He toils.
He slumbers. He toils.
He hungers. He toils.
He ails. He toils.
He prays. He toils.
He subsists to survive
He must live
He is shown little kindness
A man loses all.
He adjusts and adapts
He persists and perseveres
His resilience endures
He knows no other way
He suffers to survive
He must live
/I must live. I know no other way/
He is given little gratitude
The world -
makes him
then breaks him
forsakes him
then takes him
Serve. Suffer. Survive.
Live.
/I must live. I know little else/
A man must live -
so that we may survive
🚶♂️
©dead_poet
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