Beware the Shadows

Beware the Shadows

Do they frighten you like they frighten me
these downcast sons of low-caste mobs?
As you lock them away and lose the key
their parents sweat in low-paid jobs.

These downcast sons of low-caste mobs
fuel rebellious-dreams with drugs and beer.
Their parents sweat in low-paid jobs.
They chant coded-prayers in a football-jeer.

Fuel rebellious-dreams with drugs and beer
to ease the day-long searing pain,
they chant coded-prayers in a football-jeer
in the gloom of a dark-slum-lane.

To ease the day-long searing pain,
as you claim the dues for their squalid-lets
in the gloom of a dark-slum-lane,
pale parents wail and rail against the debts.

As you claim the dues for their squalid-lets
children scream of cruel-oppression.
Pale parents wail and rail against the debts
as they spiral through depression.

Children scream of cruel-oppression
trapped on a treadmill-track from womb to grave
as they spiral through depression
training for the life of a low-wage slave.

Trapped on a treadmill-track from womb to grave,
youth stolen by forsaken-school,
training for the life of a low-wage slave
in lawless-class where bullies rule.

Youth stolen by forsaken-school
dull-eyed masters screaming at sullen-mobs
in lawless-class where bullies rule
churning out fodder for the low-grade jobs.

Dull-eyed masters screaming at sullen-mobs
whose minds are brutalised by stress
churning out fodder for the low-grade jobs.
Dream-escape is a drug's caress.

Whose minds are brutalised by stress
seek false-pity from none nor spare a friend.
Dream-escape is a drug's caress
for there is no prize at this journey's end.

Seek false-pity from none nor spare a friend
where honest labour will not pay
for there is no prize at this journey's end
and brute-frustration rules the day.

Where honest-labour will not pay
the deprived will study the plumper-breeds
and brute-frustration rules the day
when the fat-one flaunts what the lean-one needs.

The deprived will study the plumper-breeds.
The game is called accumulate.
When the fat-one flaunts what the lean-one needs
cruel-rules are there to contemplate.

The game is called accumulate
where they dirty-deal for the master-share.
Cruel-rules are there to contemplate.
When the winner-takes-all none will play fair.

Where they dirty-deal for the master-share
beware the shadows of the night.
When the winner-takes-all none will play fair.
Paupers leap-out to snatch their right.

Beware the shadows of the night
as you lock them away and lose the key.
Paupers leap-out to snatch their right.
Do they frighten you like they frighten me?