Hopelessness Poem by Cheryl L. DaytecYañgot

Babies forced out of infancy
To journey to adulthood overnight
Women in cages
Workers eating hunger, sweating blood
People living in doghouses
Such wretchedness
Such pain
Such darkness
I turn on the light in a small corner
The darkness gets deeper
I feel like a banana peel
In a roadside trashcan
After the fruit flies’ feast
A blown-up tire
An empty baby formula can

Useless
Waiting for the garbage truck

(Written during one of those moments when nothing seemed to be going right; 24 March 2004)