Photo by Anna Shvets
We stand at the jaws of life
Ransacking on time,
which was robbed from us
seeking wisdom from empty shells
that were supposed to store treasure
logging grievances to the sky
while tucking our hands under our buttocks.
Knees scrapping at the alter of prophet's
Pleading for a profit
Out of our sweatless hands
Called to labor in thoughts
Inheriting dreams costing
that never grace reality.
However, if it does
We spend time bulling the ocean
Trying to swallow the missed past
At the hands of swollen feet
forgetting the looping wand
history tends to have upon events
Lingo coded as prosperity poverty.
Shackled to own mishaps
we curse the ground for pain
instead of taking a pen
& perusing the past for a lesson
To unlearn & learn barter trade
For us to trade poverty for prosperity.
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Where we from...
Please can you spare some change for me to hold as an inheritance? Born into begging games, most of us find ours at the bottom of the bottle; never taught of money and savings as it is mostly deemed to be the root of all evil. However, growing up in poverty is never fun as everything you will get is always a struggle, meanwhile dancing paycheck to paycheck feels surreal. You are bound to do something drastic to your situation leading to regrets.
At this bottom, where we find ourselves we always seek to build an illusion of what we've managed to build for ourselves which usually leads us down a slippery road when we make it. Due to inadequate financial understanding, we tend to spend more than we should justifying our recklessness as a just cause.
This has been the story of days when we find ourselves investing more in liabilities over assets. I have personally seen it with my eyes, where someone starts to make money and their first school of thought is to buy flashy cars to show that they have made it. Yet, when the cost of maintaining them piles they begin to lose what was to be their kid's inheritance.
Some of us are so spoiled that we don't realize that our mission should be to work for the next generation. Because of this when we inherit something from our parents, we will mismanage it to the level that we go 10 steps backward instead of going forward. Thereby we leave no spare change, as a legacy for the next generation to inherit.
Redress to Freedom.
It is high time our schools start teaching financial literacy to attain true freedom. Even parents should also start to learn about it so that they can educate their kids. This helps us to ensure we build a legacy for the next generation that is financially aware.
