Poverty is stressful.

It wears on you and it hardens you.

It humiliates you,

in your failure to provide for your children.

It shames you,

at your resentment of their needs.

It fills you with rage at the injustice of the world.

Then crushes your light in DEPRESSION.

As your swallow that rage,

and turn it inward.

Poverty numbs the soul.

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