Those who attempt to eradicate poverty must comprehend the depth and magnitude of the problem and its real causes. The selfish desire to possess is at the heart of the matter and springs from the sense of desolation of the physical body marooned in this island called Earth where life is but a flicker and survival so insecure. Thus comes the propensity to hoard wealth, earn it at the expense of the well-being of others even by means patently unethical and to create a system whereby such selfish activity of self-preservation may gain perpetuation and validity in the eye of law and social opinion. That countless millions will thus be grounded to the dust merely to gratify the millionaire's dust of desires is the scant object of the rich man's attention. His life is an endless pursuit of the ephemeral emeralds of this earth and his chariot of coarse collection charts its course over the corpses of countless commoners who have not yet learnt so well the art of deception or profit-making from one's own mother.
As the multitude suffer, the rich man seeks the perverse pleasure of providing the dole for the poor, scant realising or oft realising full well that such poverty thrust upon the masses is his own handiwork. Thus, the handful enjoy the elixir of life while the rest of the populace, the teeming millions must wait on these princes and princesses to fulfil every whim of theirs as if they are by birth or buying entitled to the ownership of all that is considered worthwhile in life. While life is festive somewhere, full of the delicacies of the palate and the senses, in far too many places it is a veritable damnation as vitality saps in the individual owing to unlivable conditions of living.
What more can I say than to empathise with my sisters and brothers eking out their existence on earth and awaiting final release from their daily death. I wish man awakes from his slumber and stops murdering fellow man in this bloodless cruel way as capitalism enjoins him unto doing.
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