Only one can be president and only one can be pope <br />And for every millionaire many struggle to cope <br />With the business of living, poor people are not rare <br />There are billions of them in the big World out there. <br /> <br />For many life is a battle uphill all of the way <br />The people who do survive from day to day <br />To stay out of jail for them a remarkable feat <br />For many the road to prison starts on Poverty Street. <br /> <br />In the refugee camps of the World thirty million mostly war refugees <br />And in drought ravaged Countries people dying of hunger and disease <br />We do have life choices some are known to say <br />Those who look at life in a simplistic way. <br /> <br />To some people life choices only apply <br />Most born into poverty though hard they try <br />Will never be wealthy or know of happiness <br />Their crime to be born at the wrong address.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-life-choices/
