Rent Money

Rent Money

You don't pay
You don't stay
That's what the letter said

They want it all
Not half
Not three-quarters
No taking
a little rent money
To buy some
food

It's pay or
you don't stay
But they don't hear
the baby crying
No skimming from the
rent money
to pay the utilities

You don't pay
You don't stay
But they don't hear
the knock on the door
The warning
We will soon be
in the dark

You don't pay
You don't stay
That's what they said
We sit in the dark
with the baby
crying

We paid
We stayed
and now
it is dark