Our destiny is in our own hands some have been known to say <br />But circumstance in all of that must have some part to play <br />If you are born on no hope street and homeless in your youth <br />To you our destiny is in our own hands does not have a ring of truth. <br /> <br />Our destiny is in our own hands to some may well apply <br />It may apply to you and he and her as well as I <br />But not of course to everyone each day thousands of hunger die <br />Our destiny is in our own hands to the millions is a lie. <br /> <br />The innocents who die in war and acts of terrorism did not create their destiny <br />They would not wish it on themselves for to die so tragically <br />Their destiny was in others hands which often is the case <br />They just happened at the wrong time for to be in the wrong place. <br /> <br />That our destiny is in our own hands apply to some maybe <br />But ninety nine per cent of street kids will die in poverty <br />Due to their circumstances of birth they are condemned to fail <br />And some of them die of drug overdoses and some of them die in jail.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/our-destiny-is-in-our-own-hands/
