Who Are The Poor? Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Are they people who struggle to survive from one day to the next?
Don't we all do that every day?
Are they the people who are on welfare, sitting home struggling?
While we are sitting at work?
Or are they the people out working for a living, doing any job possible, to struggle from one day to the next?
Who are the Poor?
Are they the rich trying to hold onto their money?
Or those who are without, trying to gain a hold on money?
A definition of poor is lacking means of comfortable subsistence; needy.
Don't we all need money? Aren't we all then poor?
Even the richest person is poor if he lacks the means to be comfortably alive.
Even though a man has all the money in the world he can be considered poor, because he will always be uncomfortably without some sort of subsistence, if not food, job, career, it will be life itself.
Money cannot necessarily sustain life.
Many rich people have gone to their graves proving this point.
And many poor people are in their graves - not for lack of food, job, etc., but for a lack in the longevity of their lives.