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Saturday 6 December 2014

Submerged

Submerged in a life that she had not envisaged 
Treading away life's water... hedonistic her nightlife  
Drowning in materialism of the privileged 

Gone were her rainbow-hued dreams... greed had savaged
Suffocating in drama; self-perpetuating her shallow strife
Submerged in a life that she had not envisaged 

Her reflection unrecognisable... vanity's claws, ravaged
Love lost, to passion's fancy; only in name, still his wife
Drowning in materialism of the privileged 

Selfishly she weighs up her options... tallying the advantages
Taking no responsibility for the choices of her own misguided life
Submerged in a life that she had not envisaged 

Too self-absorbed to see the plight of the real disadvantaged
to see... she is cutting herself with her own bitter-edged knife 
Drowning in materialism of the privileged 

All happiness, trust and respect she's so futilely pillaged 
Ironically missing life's pure, abundant joys... all free and rife
Submerged in a life that she had not envisaged 
Drowning in materialism of the privileged 

© Debbie Razey 2016