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Diversity Poetry Self Awareness Topic

Employed and Unhoused-What’s Wrong with This Picture?

Man holding paycheck with nowhere to go
The dawn’s early light 
Tells of a downward plight
Or the perilous fight
Nearly fifty percent

Land of the free
Home of the brave
Depraved of housing
A basic human need

Nearly fifty percent
Work for mere cents
Either part time or full time
Heavy bombs on descent

Unhoused, homeless, no roof
Paycheck in hand is no proof
Proof of simple liberties
Nearly fifty percent

Show up every day to work
With income, not enough
To secure a dwelling
Prices ever going up

Nearly fifty percent
No place to call home
Across the U S of A
Shall free men stand
Be free in this land?

In God we trust
Always a must
Walk by faith
But not by sight

Nearly fifty percent
Not of unemployment
But homelessness

Nearly fifty percent

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