Tired songs, songs of hope and sadness ~~ music Friday for Class Strugglers

 ~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

 Children singing “The Internationale” in a communist-led May Day parade, Paris, France, 1934. Getty Images.

 

 

 

It's the end 

of the week

and the theme

of the day

slips my mind

  

maybe because I'm thinking too much about my grandfather

a man who had to leave Russia

and come to the USA

where he expected

for 50 years

the rising of the working class

 

 

it's 50 years since my grandfather ceased waiting

and still

it's still

 

 

desire denied and

instead disappointment

 

~~~~~

give us your tired songs, 

 

your songs of poorly met expectations

 

and your songs of hope