At 43, Searching For Identity Poem by Harshit Agrawal

I know a woman, she is forty three
Still searching for an identity

I'm still a stranger to myself she would say
And in the maze of life I've lost my way.

Fired from her job earlier this year
She does not know where she is going from here

She now lives on welfare a quarter of her wage
And her barrier to employment is her age.

With job seekers half of her age she must compete
Very hard whom she thinks will be to beat

She was a young woman twenty years ago
And she herself still doesn't seem to know

In future her life's going to be, she feels a lost soul
Might as well be as dark as the coal

I know a woman she is unemployed
And out of work to her means loss of pride

And though on her birthday she was forty three
She still searches for an identity.