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.