We Are All Equal, But Not Equally Blessed,

Carole Stolz 25^th June 2010

Is 50 : 50 too much to ask?

I think that we’re up to the task.

Why do we have in excess,

if not to give to those with less?

What we have is a stewardship

- not to shop or go on a trip.

The only trip that we should make

is to visit the poor to see what’s at stake.

They are dying from H.I.V. Aids

or in the factories we have made

or as slaves in an Asian bed,

the light in the window the colour red.

It’s a marked contrast to life in the West.

Instead of nakedness, clothes of the best.

They are bare footed, we choose by colour

then walk through our Villas whilst they live in squalor.

Bins overflowing, where to with the waste?

An excess of rubbish wraps our expensive taste.

But for too many children, that is their home

- life on a rubbish tip which they daily roam

looking for tit-bits not eaten by worms,

shared with the dogs and invisible germs.

- Just to drive by is too much to bear,

so we turn away, we just don’t care.

And that’s what we do, whether here or there.

They’re invisible people, the ones who stare

at our gaudy dress and haughty air.

We’re not a tad better, we’re of equal worth

no matter where born on the planet earth

Whether a cleaner or a business Exec.,

beautiful or smashed up from a car wreck,

scattered through famine, displaced due to war,

rich in the suburbs or in the slums – poor.

We are all equal, but not equally blessed,

So stop feeding your greed, giving bones to the rest.

Examine your heart – what is your diagnosis?

Greed can be cured – give away in large doses!