Meant To Be
“It was meant to be …”
not sure of that
of what that really means,
but I hear it all the time
so what you’re telling me,
albeit from the threshold of a full frig,
is that those folks standing there
holding that cardboard sign, “HUNGRY,”
are where they’re meant to be
or that there are children, a third away,
starving for a grain of rice for it was meant to be
or that schoolchildren, who live in the land of the free,
are fed their three squares in a cafeteria line since it was meant to be
or that a mother would steal food stamps
and be branded a felon for life
cause it was meant to be
or that even in Washington, DC., the homeless sleep
on concrete steps that lead to White Houses
where Declarations were signed and sealed
for it was decreed that was
meant to be
TL