I cannot empathize with the poor since I'm not in poverty <br />And I can only imagine how miserable life must be <br />For those who go to sleep hungry they live with death each day <br />In a fair World this would not be it would be fair to say. <br /> <br />In a fair World this would not be but all in life's not fair <br />And thousands are in poverty for every millionaire <br />In third World Countries every year millions of hunger die <br />The crops don't grow in rain starved lands, the parched earth far too dry. <br /> <br />In a fair World there would be enough food to go around <br />And not one hungry person in the whole World to be found <br />But there is only hunger where poverty reside <br />And the gap between the haves and have nots has never been so wide. <br /> <br />In a fair World there would not be want and need and very little crime <br />But the social gap keeps widening despite the march of time <br />And I who have never lived in the slums or in a third World Land <br />What it feels like to be really poor could never understand.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-a-fair-world/
