How did you come by your wealth?
Did you inherit, earn it or obtain it by stealth?
Is it something that puts you at ease?
Does it make your life a joyful breeze?
Or is it just enough to get you by?
Does it cover most things with some on the fly?
Does it keep you just above minimum standards?
But with any unforeseen events you are stranded?
Or is it not enough to keep you well?
Do you struggle to give a happy “show and tell?”
Do things get forsaken as priorities shift?
And it takes more than a handout for this to lift?
Most people align with the last verse or two,
And a further majority are in a much more dire milieu.
Millions starve each day, their hand in this rigged game,
As a minor number make a coup from this shame.
Through histories pages, poverty is always in view,
So much that its seen and accepted as true.
As part of existence throughout all mankind,
But the reality is, it is the choice of a small number of free minds.
To undo this state one simply needs to make choices fair and clear,
That will equalise the standards of living for those far and near.
And operate the world in such a new fashion,
So that all who inhabit it have more than just rations.
How did you get your poverty?
Was it given, forced or entrenched generationally?
Is it something that fills your life with struggle and disease?
Would you knowingly inflict it upon anyone you please?
Or would you do, in poverty, what you can,
To uplift the lives of every child, woman and man?
Will you refuse to accept the standards as stood?
Or make new choices that support all they should?
But poverty means you don’t have the opportunity,
To choice and options, poverty has an immunity.
So, the choices to make changes to fix the situation as it is,
Are simply not available to those wherever it lives.
So, poverty is an oppression, it prevents free human self-expression.
For all human rights, for which many fight, it is still an unlearned lesson.
Poverty restricts and starves, body, soul and mind,
It is a needless selfishness and suffering of mankind.
If you cannot eat, sleep safely, and have your own say,
In how your life is conducted every day.
Then the lack of sustenance becomes the stressor,
And your base requirements unmet become the oppressors.
If you cannot eat or drink each day,
What strength do you have to find another way?
When the efforts of the world at large, are to push, bully and barge,
Those who are weaker, are subjugated in their charge.
So how do you enjoy your life with wealth? Would you swap it over for one with poverty?
Or do you brush these words aside thinking: “This is just a social novelty”?
If you have the luxury to read and understand these words few,
Then you are one of the ones empowered to make changes come through.
Your actions are the reality of the choices you make,
You can decide to give and to no longer take.
You can choose to empower those so oppressed,
Or by not doing so, add your consent to their distress.
Anne T Mortem©
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