Unbroken Chains

Posted by Brad Osborne on February 2, 2023 · 14 Comments 

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Slavery does not always come with chains

The sad practice to this day remains

Where the impoverished can never break

The bondage to the money they make

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Employers swell in the profits they gather

Accumulated wealth is all that matters

And the tired hands that see the profits won

Do without when the long day is done

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Success only measured by the stock price

Corporate greed becomes an accepted vice

But unchanged are the lives of our neighbors

Left so poorly rewarded for their labors

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Just be happy that you are employed

Let that keep your spirits buoyed

Be glad there is a bus that goes this far

As you will never afford a decent car

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They act if they are doing us a favor

By so undervaluing good labor

Each day they are put to full use

In a job they are scared to lose

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But it does not have to be this way

Struggling for the pittance paid

And there within a minimal wage

Slaves they are in a gilded cage

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