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You Do Keep Us Awake

You keep us awake with your schedules and deadlines 

Agendas, payslips, boardrooms 

You keep us awake with your banking systems 

You do keep us awake with your machines making noise on the pavements 

Taxis, cars, hooting, pushing, shoving each other out the way 


You keep us awake with your ambition 

Competitive, sizing each other before pushing someone off the rails 


You do keep us awake with your greed

With your expectations 

With your suffering  


You do keep us awake with your screeching 

Preaching, keeping us all in prison 

You do keep us awake with your passion 

Inability to learn a lesson 

Scratching, digging, mining 

Spending all your time underground 


You do keep us awake with your bibles 

Your old stories written afresh but keeping the same message 

You do keep us awake with your dying, your funerals 

Motorcades and sirens heading to the graveyard 


You do keep us awake with your presidents 

Their speeches, campaigns, promises 

Lying, stealing, cahoots with evil 


You do keep us awake with your birthdays, Christmas, Diwali and others 

Fireworks Xmas trees, whatever else people do to celebrate 


You do keep us awake with your champagne popping 

You keep us awake with your Xmas shopping 

Wrapping, unwrapping, plastic paper garbage 

You do keep us awake with your contracts, your meetings, the justification to charge us interest 


 

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