Permanently Locked Down

 

I worked hard all my life

and never took a wife

I paid all my taxes on time

and was seldom ever heard to whine

I served my country in the Army

which I now consider to have been barmy

I was never in trouble with the law

if anything I was something of a bore

My retirement came to free me

but the purse strings now strangle me

I live by hand to mouth to make ends meet

and spend each day on my worn out seat

I have lost all enthusiasm to be alive

the future offers nothing for me to survive

Society has become greedy and unjust

as I settle down to corrode into rust

They spend millions a day on illegal immigrants

but care not a penny for those of us residents

We paid the bills for decades on time

and now can call virtually nothing mine

A holiday is on an impossible horizon

as I have no money left to spend on one

We fight wars and give overseas aid

whilst some of us cannot afford a simple hearing aid

I have ended up at the back of the queue

with others far ahead and better off too

What did I strive for in the past?

only to become ignored at the very last

I sit in my rented dwelling in a frugal condition

as this will become my final situation

A G7 nation we are told

with nuclear weapons to make us bold

but the pot is empty whe it comes to being old

I was once very patriotic

and stood to attention quite robotic

I now slouch in a worn out arm chair

and no longer do I care