Price Tags

I don’t know when it started or how it started, but somehow you had to pay.

Was it when there was no money that simple decency towards a fellow human became for sale?

Or when there was no help that it became “I did it for you so you have to do it for me”?

I do not know where I begin or where I end, the lines are blurry.

A shelter costs the price of my dignity.

Food on the table costs my suffering in silence.

And if I dare ask for cake? I forfeit my future.


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Published by Vanessa Emeadi

Vanessa Emeadi is a Media and Communications professional who is passionate about youth advocacy and community development.

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