First World Problems

Another rough draft of something I came up with this week. Not sure I've nailed it down but the idea is in there somewhere. I call it First World Problems even though the only things listed are really found in Third World countries, at least for now that is. It's kind of a reverse thing.

First World Problems

I didn’t wake up today dreading

The fear of what could come

No dogs hung from a street light

No menacing messages attached

no electricity to light my way

because the plant blew up again

Nobody in my neighborhood

Disappeared into a van

Never to be seen alive again

My first world problems don’t include

The fact that my house is four poles

Covered by plastic walls and a tin roof

No running water, no heat, no air conditioning

Nature gives all that is available

I wasn’t abandoned by my family

Or made to work instead of school

Scraping by to have enough to eat

Grateful for the crumbs that fall to me

My first world problems don't include these

Written and Published by Don Leach. May not be used without permission from the author.