mezzaninedoor
29-10-15, 10:51
How to recognise Poverty?…..
Keeping track of income and expenses
Looking at your balances through foggy lenses
Rising prices and Lack of wage increases
Difficult decisions with money never ceases
Now let's make it even easier
Lower your income by a full three quarters
25p for every pound you earn
Something here everyone can learn
Life becomes tougher and damaging
Possibly impossible to imagine
Your next meal, heating your home
In Ukraine & Latvia this is the norm
Now let's make it even easier
Your daughter is offered a UK high paid job
It sounds like an answer to family woes
She can send money home and that's what she does
Life becomes for her unimaginable
Not long after crossing the channel
She falls into wrong hands her passport snatched
She falls into prostitution, the pimp controls the latch
The above all happens that's what people say
Evidence that it happens here in the UK
However we can imagine further fiscal challenges
What if your family on 3p in the pound manages
For countries in Africa this is the reality
Even the idea of cheaper cost of living a fallacy
Your son is offered a job in a nearby country
On a cocoa farm he works for your family
Life becomes for him intolerable
The hours he works leave him vulnerable
He is abused and has no rights
He's worked so hard he has no strength to fight
Poverty is fashioned in so many ways
We ought to be aware of all of its shades
Fair Trade is needed it's abundantly clear
Not every deal should for profit be geared
Think on every immigrant and refugee
It's likely their actions are an attempt to fulfil a need
Something that every family would expect
Attempting to clothe and feed all they have begat
Keeping track of income and expenses
Looking at your balances through foggy lenses
Rising prices and Lack of wage increases
Difficult decisions with money never ceases
Now let's make it even easier
Lower your income by a full three quarters
25p for every pound you earn
Something here everyone can learn
Life becomes tougher and damaging
Possibly impossible to imagine
Your next meal, heating your home
In Ukraine & Latvia this is the norm
Now let's make it even easier
Your daughter is offered a UK high paid job
It sounds like an answer to family woes
She can send money home and that's what she does
Life becomes for her unimaginable
Not long after crossing the channel
She falls into wrong hands her passport snatched
She falls into prostitution, the pimp controls the latch
The above all happens that's what people say
Evidence that it happens here in the UK
However we can imagine further fiscal challenges
What if your family on 3p in the pound manages
For countries in Africa this is the reality
Even the idea of cheaper cost of living a fallacy
Your son is offered a job in a nearby country
On a cocoa farm he works for your family
Life becomes for him intolerable
The hours he works leave him vulnerable
He is abused and has no rights
He's worked so hard he has no strength to fight
Poverty is fashioned in so many ways
We ought to be aware of all of its shades
Fair Trade is needed it's abundantly clear
Not every deal should for profit be geared
Think on every immigrant and refugee
It's likely their actions are an attempt to fulfil a need
Something that every family would expect
Attempting to clothe and feed all they have begat