<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=569363" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poverty Is Here To Stay</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Children picking food at the dump site<br>Scratching overgrown hair full of lice <br>Unclad youngsters playing in the muck<br>No program or drives to keep them tuck, <br>Thoughts torture their souls constantly <br>One difficulty that ensues incessantly: <br>Poverty is here to stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Begging at crossroads is not allowed<br>Police enjoy caning them avowed<br>They run, falling, exposing their parts.<br>Strive for survival an intense freaking.<br>Take to robbing and house breaking, <br>Land in jails and are called terrorists: <br>Poverty is here to stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have no education for want of school cost<br>No defense for want of a solicitor provost<br>No identity card for want of official braids<br>No homes as shanties are on illegal lands, <br>Round up and evict them in massive raids<br>While Ministers aptly preach human rights: <br>Poverty is here to stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Teen boys and girls enter drug culture<br>As carriers they eye police as vultures.<br>Coke, cannabis, cocaine, Acne and Nice, <br>Deliver them cleverly to become an ace.<br>A living sex toy is next to virtuous vice<br>Rich use them as lifeless abject objects: <br>Poverty is here to stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A ten year old says Maoist do not wait<br>Five officers disarmed and tied as bait.<br>Ask a five hundred thousand payment.<br>Government agrees, says for 'upliftment'<br>In three hours it's money or bereavement.<br>Little one says: What will be, will be! <br>Poverty is here to stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Syed+Anwar+Yarkhan+Jilani">Syed Anwar Yarkhan Jilani</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=569363" data-title="Poverty Is Here To Stay de Syed Anwar Yarkhan Jilani" data-description="Children picking food at the dump site Scratching overgrown hair full of lice Unclad youngsters playing in the muck No program or drives to keep them tuck, Thoughts torture their souls constantly One difficulty that ensues incessantly: Poverty..."></div> </div> </div>

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