Let’s wage a war on poverty.
That should be easy if we try.
It is a foe that we can see.
We just have to discover why.
We’ll call a meeting, rent a hall
And cater to our every need.
We’ll pay experts to tell us all
The poor are with us due to greed.
We’ll have a royal commission.
Ten million we’ll give to a judge
Who in five years will fill us in
Why poverty won’t seem to budge.
Meanwhile the poor can do without
Because we have to get it right.
It won’t be easy, greed to rout.
Greed won’t go down without a fight.
There’ll surely be some legalese
That we will have to organize.
More money for the lawyers please
To cross the T’s and dot the I’s.
We’ll need a program to direct
Toward the problem that we find.
Though hazy goals will be suspect
It’s being will bring peace of mind.
For when we seem to do something
It’s usually just good enough
To take away the critics sting
Pretending that they are so tough.
So too is all the giving gifts
A magic trick that’s meant to ease
Our sense of guilt, our conscience lifts
And even hope our God to please.
We do all this to facts obscure
For then we’re able to avoid
The reason why we have the poor,
We try with cash to fill the void.
So poverty comes as we slave
In order to secure our place
In history of those who save
As winners of the human race.
To rid ourselves of poverty
Will be so easy if we try
To realize capacities
Since that’s for life the reason why.