Emptiness
Is this how it was planned?
Is this what God intended?
Muscles lie unused
A mind that's not extended
Thirty years of mining
Years of sweat and toil
Spent in dust and darkness
Deep beneath the soil.
Those days now are over
A lifetime spent in coal
Emptiness before me
A future on the dole
I feel I am a parasite
I make no contribution
I can't maintain my lifestyle
Approaching destitution
All my years of working
To support me family
Have all been done for nothing
Is this the end of me?
The family I have reared
They are no longer there
They have their own to cherish
I feel they do not care.
I worked hard as a miner
You'd never see me shirk
It now is hard to rise each day
I've lost the will to work
I've often dreamt of ending
My life in peaceful bliss
Not lying round in tatters
Broken and like this.
Is my life worth having
In this living hole
I pray it will soon be over
God have mercy on my soul.