Passionate Poverty

Poverty seems like a repellent stuck on the poor Whose only fault lies in owning no property or asset to parade Among wealth admirers and worshippers to whom poverty seems dour In contexts where ostentatious display of wealth cuts the grade That profligacy and extravagance attract Robbing the poor of the dignity glitter As though on purpose fleas of poverty they contract Dumping ugliness on the poor on whom fruits of affluence litter Dwindling humanness and affection which wealth simpleton conflate Into little human worth and warmth Where spooks of poverty deflate In proportion to the increase in affluence sloth Sown, grown and thrown with utter scorn To belittle Abject poverty misguided affluence thinkers warn Amounting to little less than spittle Poverty peels off humbug and complacency Exposing deeper layers of flawed humanity Denuded of perspicacity and sagacity Sometimes concealed in the deficit of humility That often mars circles of affluence Where possession seems to epitomise human dignity Mistakenly regarded as diluted influence The poor exert in extolling human unity shorn of wealth affinity and motility.