<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567605" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Poverty Line</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mother and grandmother near the end of her life<br>To an unworthy fellow she was a good wife<br>Without provocation her he often did beat<br>But at least she feels happy she is not on the street</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a homeless person struggling for to make ends meet<br>Without a roof over her head and with little to eat<br>And though she cannot afford to go out for to wine and to dine<br>She feels happy to live on the poverty line.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hard life has left her with lines on her face<br>But poverty she is happy to embrace<br>One of the people by society forgot<br>But she is not one to complain of her lot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For millions and millions life is so unfair<br>And so many more like her in the big World out there<br>For millions a huge struggle just to get by<br>For success they no longer bother to try.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her ex husband left her for a younger woman a decade ago<br>She is better without him that much she does know<br>She took his abuse and his every blow<br>But any bitterness towards him she never does show.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She lives as a good person and spiritually pure<br>But she does not know how it feels to live as financially secure<br>She never eats out never tasted good wine<br>The one who exists on the poverty line.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567605" data-title="On The Poverty Line de Francis Duggan" data-description="A mother and grandmother near the end of her life To an unworthy fellow she was a good wife Without provocation her he often did beat But at least she feels happy she is not on the street As a homeless person struggling for to make ends meet With..."></div> </div> </div>

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