Inequality, Shame and Blame
Is it not time yet to end this food bank life
And desperate youth killing each others with a knife
Short of support, help and education
Short of understanding it's not that complicated
They don't don't see equality in this society
What people see is the have and have nots
What poorer sections of society see is how much more
Some of the more fortunate have got
Paying footballers tens of thousands every week
Yet carers, nurses and doctors and public workers
Are down on their knees hoping food banks will supply their needs
Meanwhile tax evasion is still rife
Ignored by a government who have shares in each slice
MP's and ministers as corrupt as the corporation bosses at the top
Zero hour contracts to keep people down
While those at the top do many jobs
For an obscene wage for working only a few hours and few days
This is how society plays it's game
Ensuring the poor lose and the rich gain
Causing division, hate and blame
Creating classes instead of equality and unity
This is sign of a government pathetically failing
People living on the street in a so called advanced society
Is a sign of failing and a lack of compassion
And is a form of neglect and cruelty
Which the government dies nothing about
Because it treats people lower than them brutally
And hope seems to to go by with such futility
In the knowledge that nothing will ever change
Because we don't do enough to bring this about so on us
I guess that's where the shame lays.
Copyright © Fauxcroft Wade | Year Posted 2018
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