YEARS OF DEPRESSION (Poem)

By Nithya Priya, Grade IX, HRS, TTL

THE WALL STREET EXCHANGE CRASHED IN 1929
WHEN PEOPLE STARTED WAITING FOR LOANS IN LINES
PEOPLE SOLD THEIR SHARES WITH FEAR
FOR THE NATIONAL INCOME FELL BY HALF FOR SURE

PEOPLE STARTED PEISHING
AS GERMANY FACED ECONOMIC CRISIS
POVERTY WAS FLOURISHING
SO PEOPLE SOLD THEMSELVES AT LOW PRICES

THE UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS WASTED THEIR TIME
BY WALKING ON STREETS WITHOUT ANY AIM
SOME PLAYED CARDS AND SAT SIMPLY ON STREET CORNERS
EXPECTING SOME MONEY FROM THE DONORS.