NaPoWriMo 2015: Day 16: Terzanelle: Broke and Broken

She looks a bit like me. Lucky her.

Broke and Broken

Here's a story that makes me cry

I don't know prosperity at all

To me, the idea's a lie

When I'm scheduled I answer the call

I work hard to earn my pay

Spring and winter, summer and fall

I'm lucky I've a place to stay

I'd not get another if I lost it

My credit is so bad these days

Things don't look good from where I sit

I worry about my future life

Will there be anyplace I can even fit

I've rarely known anything but strife

I'm just a broke and broken soul

And yet I'm told to be excited about life

Life's just a march to the hole

Into which my broke body will lie

I want back the hopes and dreams that life stole

But I can't even afford tears to cry

~Blooming Psycho~

The Prompt:

And now for our (as always, optional) prompt! Today, I challenge you to write in the form known as the terzanelle. A hybrid of the villanelle and terza rima, terzanelles consist of five three-line stanzas and a concluding quatrain. Lines and rhymes are chained throughout the poem, so that the middle line of each triplet is repeated as the last line of the following triplet (or, for the last triplet, in the concluding quatrain). The pattern goes like this:

ABA
bCB
cDC
dED
eFE
fAFA or fFAA.

You can use any meter or line length, though you may want to try to have all of your lines in the same meter! (And you can always fall back on that old favorite, iambic pentameter).