Some people have tough lives, and let you know it
They won’t let you forget: their struggle’s real.
And others suffer, but they never show it;
You’d never guess how terrible they feel.
Exhausted, broke, and seriously bruised
Arrested, and the way back home too long
Next morning, you were angry and confused:
No one would tell you what you had done wrong.
But while I cursed the negligence of staff
Who’d left you, triggered, ill and off your head,
All you could do was laugh and laugh and laugh
“I nicked a fucking PINEAPPLE? I’m dead!”
Some moan, some never let you know they’re broken.
And some can walk through hell and come out joking.
Tom Juniper Poetry 