Some are not really causes <br />But just symptoms <br />And we misdiagnose <br />A sickness <br />For a symptom <br />Of the real sickness <br /> <br />The cause <br />And the effect <br />Are often interchanged <br /> <br />For instance <br />Is poverty the cause <br />Of crime <br />Or is poverty <br />Only the symptom <br />Of it? <br /> <br />For instance <br />Is ignorance <br />The cause of poverty <br />Or is it simply <br />An effect of poverty? <br /> <br />Or is poverty <br />Nothing but an effect <br />Of ignorance? <br /> <br />Or is poverty <br />Just an effect <br />Of an oppression <br />Of the rich <br />Taking much <br />From the poor <br />Who gets poorer <br />Everyday <br />Because there <br />Are no reforms <br />Coming <br />To solve <br />His poverty <br />His ignorance <br />His having to commit a crime <br />To survive <br />His poverty <br />His ignorance <br />His being a crime <br />Of <br />Society itself <br />who never cared <br />And wanted him <br />Who never <br />Instituted the much <br />Promised reforms? <br /> <br />And so you doubt <br />The cause and effect <br />The effect from cause <br />And if you did not mind so <br />Well <br />They may always be <br />Interchanged <br />And mistaken <br />For the symptoms <br />The conditions <br />That always <br />Are <br />there deceiving.<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cause-and-effect-5/
