Who Are The Poor Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Are they people who struggle to survive from one day to the
next?

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 on to
their money?

A definition of poor is lacking means of comfortable
subsistence, needy.

Don't we all need money? Aren't we then all 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 sustenance, 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.

Who Are The Poor?