Don'T Talk To Me Of An Egalitarian Society Poem by Francis Duggan

Society now as always is unequal and the labourer seen as inferior to the king
So don't talk to me of an egalitarian society when the fact is there is no such a thing
We'll always have racism and class distinction and we'll always have the great social divide
And inequality has never been more common as the gap between the rich and poor grow wide.

Don't talk to me of an egalitarian society when people every day of hunger die
And even in the so called affluent Countries some do not have a bed on which to lie
In every city in every Land around the World too many have to live from hand to mouth
And far too many poor, hungry and homeless and far too many people down and out.

Don't talk to me of an egalitarian society when we read in the newspapers every day
Of poor people who are fleeing in their thousands from their war torn Homelands many miles away
They live in fear their Homelands destroyed by bombings and in their futures they don't have a say
And of any crimes of such they are quite innocent yet for the crimes of others they must pay.

Don't talk to me of an egalitarian society when you like me have never been really poor
When compared to the millions who are homeless you and I must seem financially secure
And though I too believe in the concept of egalitarianism of
such utopia one can only dream
For from equality we never have been further than at any time than we have ever been.