Laid Off

Left on the outside

Can't find my way back in

I feel like I'm just waiting

For this life of mine to end

I envy those around me

Whom it seems have found there way

It's like I'm traped inside a game

I don't know how to play

Every day I struggle

Not to give in to dispair

Start screaming in frustration

And pulling out my hair

My sanity hangs suspended

By a single tiny thread

Fear that it will one day break

Is now my greatest dread

As a young man I made promises

I couldn't carry through

To disappoint the ones you love

Is the hardest thing to do

My plains for the future

turned to dust and blew away

There's an emptiness inside me

I'm afraid is here to stay

I went to work at fifteen

And worked for forty years

Politicians gave our jobs away

and now my wife's in tears

For three years now we've struggled

With retirement just in sight

Now they want to raise retirement age

And that just plain ain't right