The World's many billion people controlled by the greedy few <br />But to every billionaire there is there are a million who <br />Go to sleep weak and hungry their wasted bodies thin <br />For days they haven't eaten their bones showing through their skin. <br /> <br />The World's 100 wealthiest people their names published today <br />And yet the poor grow poorer it has always been this way <br />And the social gap keeps widening and with it inequality <br />And not far from where the wealthy live there's want and poverty <br /> <br />Not far from where the wealthy live you see social decay <br />The slums that reek of poverty the buildings old and gray <br />The sad faced mother of the slums her kids out of control <br />Her husband in jail for larceny and she is on the dole. <br /> <br />Of the World's 100 wealthiest people why should I wish to know <br />When poverty is rampant and the numbers of the hungry grow <br />If the World's wealthiest person Bill Gates fed the hungry of Sudan <br />I too would sing his praises and I'd say what a man. <br /> <br />The World's wealthiest people their names published today <br />But not too far from where they live there is social decay <br />And that they are worth billions show how greedy they must be <br />When millions of poor people must live in poverty.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-reading-of-the-world-s-100-wealthiest-people/
