Our culture?

Express yourself in the fiction and poetry section.

People need a licence to own a dog,
But anyone can have a child.
What happens with neglect?
Tales of a wrecked home?
Where to go?
Away, that’s where, outside.
To the streets, where do you hide?
Where is the culture in which we should take pride?
Nowhere to be found, when you suffer inside.
What is it that you surround yourself with?
The culture for us.
The culture of drink and drugs.
Then society will put you down,
And ageism thrives,
Just because you were dragged into life.

By: Orla Price