ASSAULT OF POVERTY
Poverty assails and allows no provisions
For body, mind, and soul-
a condition that feels like
a judgment from God.
To be bereft of money for necessities
is to be victimized by a system
that is no respecter of persons,
or only of those who have played their cards
right to acquire their disproportionate gain.
Our economic status quo is violent.
It is torture, aided, and abetted
by government and the high courts.
Democracy is a farce.
Capitalism prostitutes and persecutes,
taking resources and allowing the few
to hoard that which was intended
for the common good.
Poor, poor people and no one
is there for them.
Those who attempt to speak for them
are ignored or ridiculed.
God is worshipped faithfully
in our temples of capitalism
where the moneychangers
have set up their shops,
but that God cannot
save the poor among us
for Pharoah maintains the reins
of power and control of their lives.
Originally published in In Mammon We Trust by Al Staggs
