Some Of The So Called Highest Of Achievers Poem by Francis Duggan

Some of the so called highest of achievers they so disappoint me
They use their position of influence to oppress humanity,
They desecrate Mother Nature and pollute her lands and seas
And render people homeless and create refugees.

Some of the so called highest of achievers sad to say abuse their power
They are the noxious weeds of the Human World who stifle every flower
And why they are known as high achievers I ask the question why
When so many suffer due to them and far too many die?

They rule in so called Democratic Countries as well as in the third World Land
And why these people are given power I do not understand,
They talk of freedom and human rights yet do they know or care
That they too are responsible for human suffering and despair?

Some of the so called highest of achievers too go to church to pray
Yet does their God tell them for to bomb poor Countries far away
And if their God feel the way they feel then their God must be cruel?
Any genuine high achiever with the power of might don't rule.

Some of the so called highest of achievers spiritually bereft over all
And history will not be kind to them when historians will recall
That the suffering they created lived for decades of years
And they too were responsible for sorrow, death and tears.