The Poor Growing In Numbers

A thousand poor people for every millionaire The poor of the World have their crosses to bear In climate change more economic refugees Low lying Countries now threatened by the rising seas In slums of big Cities and Lands far away Thousands of people are dying of hunger every day The Homeless, the Stateless, the oppressed and downtrod The have nots of this World of the lesser God All people are equal you do hear some say But the question one must ask is equal in what way We are equal in that we are all born to die But as for equal in life well that does seem a lie The poor growing in numbers it does seem to me And climate change will bring us more poverty.