All One Does Have Are Memories

All one does have are memories good or bad of the past And time does not wait and the clock ticking fast Today a mother gives birth to a daughter or son And tomorrow will dawn but not for everyone Many destined to live poor due to birth circumstance Of any success in life they do stand little chance Every waking day for them a new challenge for to meet Life is never easy on Poverty Street There are millions of hungry and homeless people in the big World out there But to meet a poverty stricken person you need not travel to elsewhere Near where you live there are people who are doing it quite tough On the poorest of poor diets and living and sleeping rough If everybody were equal there would not be poverty We would not have the homeless and hungry and the refugee But for a few to grow very wealthy many grow poorer life is designed in this way And this in itself seems a sad thing to say In a Human World where a few own the majority of the wealth something that does not seem right Millions are sleeping without shelter tonight For the poor and the hungry and homeless and the refugee How sad very sad life for them it must be.