I just recently read something that really fired me up, forgive me Bay dwellers for my little rant, but I feel something needed to be said....


Mummy's Mad!



Here I am again with a bee in my bonnet
So I will turn my whine into a sonnet
Employment for some may be an enigma
But for me I'm fed up with the single mum stigma

Some of us don't choose to be on the skids
The sad fact is some men walk out on their kids
We are treated like lower forms of life
Because some "men" don't respect a wife

Welfare was all we had to get by
While I scoured for work, determined to try
When I couldn't find work I made a job of my own
I didn't just sit and take cheques and moan

Then I see free birth control on the news
As an extra option in Centerlink queues
I was stinking mad, I threw a fit
Don't people know we don't ask for this shit?

Who are they to point the finger at me?
I didn't have kids to get money for free
It's shutting the gate after the horse has bolted
So here I sit here frustrated, feeling insulted

Yes there are some that wrought the system
But what of us triers? Guess somebody missed them
It's discrimination just like creed or colour..
I'm not a parent at the cost of another!





Poetry by Purple Phoenix
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Written on 2010-01-12 at 05:37

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melanie sue
Bravo! Well said in a fine poetical form.(been there and I know where you are coming from). I have been harping on this issue for years in our country. Real help is helping people get back on their feet so they can help themselves and have good self-esteem. The welfare system is quite destructive on many levels. Your poem adequately covers the brunt of it.
2010-01-12


Morpheus
You had your say, and you said it well! I thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful rhyming rant. You sound like a fine mom, and a wonderful human. Keep the fire burning inside your heart. And, I do hope that whoever wrote that article, has walked in your shoes. Otherwise, they really only have one WRONG point of view.
2010-01-12