The gap between the rich and poor expanding getting bigger by the day <br />Though some may say that is no strange news that it has always been this way <br />And the crime rate on the increase as poverty give rise to crime <br />And the children of the slum end in the jail house spend their time. <br /> <br />They were born to disadvantage never knew enough to eat <br />Their fathers in jail before them and their mothers worked the street <br />Just to put food on the table so their children could survive <br />In the slum end of the city people live to stay alive. <br /> <br />You say all people are equal that is how it ought to be <br />But tell that to mothers of the slum end and with you they will not agree <br />Their children can't get employment and their addresses a put down <br />And they are judged to be inferior those from the slum end of the town. <br /> <br />So few from the slum end make it save for the exceptional few <br />For every success fifty failures odds of one hundred to two <br />If you are born in the slum end of success you've little chance <br />Your address a heavy burden you are doomed by circumstance. <br /> <br />You say all people are equal and to that add in God's eyes <br />Tell that to the slum end mother she will tell you her three boys <br />Are in prison for car stealing and her daughters work the street <br />Just to support their drug habit a habit they can't defeat. <br /> <br />Born into disadvantage doomed to failure and unemployed <br />May God be with the slum end children they would need him on their side, <br />You say all people are equal that is how it ought to be <br />But tell that to the slum end mothers and with you they will not agree.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-children-of-the-slum-end/
