The Other People

When the economy started to go down,

The news talked about stocks, and businesses.

They didn't talk about the people who lost their jobs.

When people talk about college, 

They talk about "higher education" and opportunity.

They don't talk about the people who struggle through it.

Does anyone take notice of the people?

The rich kids whose parents pay for college,

Or the "other" students, who have to drop out

Because their parent will not co-sign a loan.

History remembers the numbers, but not the people.

Do you think everyone enjoyed the Rennaissance?

Even the workers in the quarries who mined the stone

From which the Greats sculpted their masterpieces?

Behind every statistic is an invisible people,

Figting to break out of their statistical mould. 

Fighting, not to be remembered in history books,

But to get through the lives that no one sees.