Life of a Peasant

By: Sam Colombo

Born a peasant

always a peasant

work, work, work

never stopping

bound to the land

living from it

I sleep thinking,

why me?

I want to leave

I want to die

but what will happen to my family?

how will they survive?

at the end of the day

when the fruit is picked from the trees

I fall to my knees and…..

Scream.

what good is a life

when it is bound to its land

chained to the ground

blind to the world?