PRIVILEGE

By Howard Osborne

Photo credit: Jeffrey Friedlander

PROMPT—Privilege ...

Privilege should be earned, not merely granted

As birth is not the means to acquire status

And no criteria gets supplanted

Perhaps we’re overdue for some hiatus

They really don’t recognize the common man

Are they now saying someone might just hate us

Of that sort of privilege, I’m not a fan

They are ignorant that their days are numbered

It’s time to muster some resolve if you can

With a few days more for them to have slumbered

Then by their heads they will be unencumbered

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Howard Osborne has written poetry and short stories, also a novel and several scripts. With poems published online and in print, he is a published author of a non-fiction reference book and several scientific papers many years ago. He is a UK citizen, retired, with interests in writing, music and travel. Howard writes from Pontefract, England.