They started
with the money.
But they didn't stop there.
They then took my house,
furniture, car, work—
they only left
my clothes
and my children.
But they didn't stop there.
They stripped off
my dignity
—no respectable fellow
would talk to me—
and my rights.
Now, I've only got
my children.
My clothes have
rotted
and my name is
forgotten.
I am now
a grain of sand
from a desert
lost in the countryside.
Mar 24
Mar 24, 2026 at 11:02 AM UTC
They started
with the money.
But they didn't stop there.
They then took my house,
furniture, car, work—
they only left
my clothes
and my children.
But they didn't stop there.
They stripped off
my dignity
—no respectable fellow
would talk to me—
and my rights.
Now, I've only got
my children.
My clothes have
rotted
and my name is
forgotten.
I am now
a grain of sand
from a desert
lost in the countryside.
"Tingo" is a Pascuense word meaning "to extract or haul as much as possible"
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Copyright: Shattentraumer, 2026. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Original: https://hellopoetry.com/poems/5277041/tingo
