Occupy

Occupy

Occupy, linger, stand still, defy

Take matters into your own hands

They don't care that you cry

Fall asleep wondering why

you spent all that money on four years

that now you can't get back

so you sit bored at the government's desk

the loans cuff you like shackles

Is this what your ancestors said was freedom?

Maybe no currency is better than having

the bill collectors sending you on a Middle Passage

Seems like you were born into share-cropping

Mom and dad struggled to put you through

to private schools; told you that if you

go to college you could be successful,

and now all you have is shattered dreams

of the youthful you wishing you could have

grown up sooner in a different age

when things were thriving, and bankers

weren't lying to the people who supplied

them with their lowly checks they

work so hard for all week;

bailed out? well the wrong ones got the

hand outs, yet they mock the welfare

because frankly, my dear, they don't care.

So occupy, linger, stand still, defy.

It is our time!