A is for Acrostic

An Acrostic poem is a poem in which each line begins with a letter of a given word or words.

Here is my effort, summing up how I feel of late; how I've felt for a long time, if the truth were to be told.

Working For a Less Than Living

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Tired, so tired, of working each week

Only to have it all gone in a flash

Industrious me, and yet what is it worth?

Lost to the tax man, the holder of the inflated mortgage, the high cost of living

Lies I tell myself to get through the week

About someday getting to the top

Belief is gone, yet I fool myself

Only to turn around and do it all over again

Reaching for a dream I can never achieve

Dreams are for the young and the foolish

Reason is too dismal to contemplate

Unless miracles happen, and they usually don't

Death is the only way out

Gainful employment is an oxymoron

Eventually we all must pay the piper

~Faith~

Here is a cool list of poetry styles.