Doctors & Engineers

Chasing money, the country’s youth are split
To two slim paths where hungry, desperate
Bodies squeeze, tear muscles, limbs pop to fit
Through narrow paths that lead to lands that sate

Nothing, for what hunger has now been born
Surpasses what was known before to be
Mere middling lips, young mouths have now been torn
To giant jaws that tear through all they see

But this burden was passed, it’s not a choice,
Made more tragic because there’s other trails
They’ll never know for they follow a voice
That drowns all else, all else would be betrayal

So now with fraught, tired limbs they climb atop
Barren vistas, not knowing how to stop.




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Written on 2026-05-20 at 16:44

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Griffonner The PoetBay support member heart!
... and for some, they find that there is no step on which their tired limbs may tread, those who went before removed them. Obviously I do get the point of this powerful piece. Just couldn't resist the urge to point out how some are deliberately excluded from rising. Blessings, Allen
2026-05-21


Albert Vynckier The PoetBay support member heart!
I am not sure I kept the message right
but I'll try to say in my tepid English what I've understood

money seems the graal, with money one can be free at least if the money is worth something and how do you know it ? by buying something for an amount of money and see what you get in your country

having a degree is for sure important but nothing is due to the graduated in the end...the life that goes after the diploma is a new beginning but you don't start from scratch despite the fact that the conditions of studies can reveal already the injustice amongst the students and the recruiters know it very well if they are intelligent...a degree is a free entrance to the ball, then it's up to you to make the good encounters
2026-05-20