Steve's Poem (Rap)

Poverty: how do we tackle it?

We need to speak to the people that constantly battle it!

How do they live with Stigma? How do they move?

Do they have the tools to try and manage the abuse?

Tramp, dosser, scrounger you live on benefits!

All this anger and blame who does it benefit?

Systemic boxes pushed into by the big machine.

Designed policies to keep the poor underneath.

Narrative shift we need to challenge current designs

Paradigm shift: how does it look from the outside?

Awareness lift help to understand people's lives

Repair the rift it's time for us to wrong the rights

Start with the roots where is the heart of the problem

Forbidden fruits seems the government builds upon them

The next generation lets equip them with knowledge give them power

Start conversations to challenge those in them ivory towers!

Be with, Share with, Stand Strong with each other

Suffer with, Hurt with, Compare with your Sisters and Brothers,

Change with, Create with Compassion and Unity.

Conversate with, Relate with Eradicate with the Power of We 

It's true you see we grew up in poverty,

So what? That is the place I belong or where you wanna keep me?

Resilience, self taught to combat stigma,

How do you figure? system creators achieve what they deliver?

We can blame him we can shame him but don’t entertain him,

Do not amplify his voice, we don't want things changing!

Working class I am a model of oppression,

Coming last a social given position not intention,

So Stigma keep your oppressive tool we have had enough

Identity is ours we are the diamonds in the rough,

Your ignorance degrading don’t turn that on us,

It’s time your power faded reclaiming is a must!

There is a saying sticks and stones may break my bones but names won’t hurt me,

That is not true though your stigmas down and dirty!

Let's start with colonisation stigmatising of all other nations

Controlling their salvation built in Racism for defamation,

STIGMA SUCKS it's time to de-frame your class creation,

Dehumanisation we say No More we demand emancipation!

Be with, Share with, Stand Strong with each other

Suffer with, Hurt with, Compare with your Sisters and Brothers,

Change with, Create with Compassion and Unity.

Conversate with, Relate with Eradicate with the Power of We