Seven Levels of Despair

To search each morning / to find the scraps / with which to survive another day. // The knowledge on waking / that in this legal wilderness / no rights exist. // The experience over the years / of nothing getting better / only worse. / The humiliation of being able / to change almost nothing, / and of seizing upon the almost / which then leads to another impasse. // The listening to a thousand promises / which pass inexorably / beside you and yours. // The example of those who resist / being bombarded to dust. // The weight of your own killed / a weight which closes / innocence for ever / because they are so many.