POEM/ POVERTY IN AFFLUENCE IN NIGERIA (We are Rich but We are Beggars)

This country is blessed is the hackneyed expression
We live in affluence but in abject poverty
Rich men taking an askance at us on the lower rung
The poverty line swelling in-considerably

The country is rich with natural resources
With the resources comes with our despondency
Rich men taking an askance at us on the lower rung
The poverty line swelling in-considerably

The street is littered with waifs and strays
Home a receptacle to bloated malnourished entities
Rich men taking an askance at us on the lower rung
The poverty line swelling in-considerably

It is disheartening that despite the huge human and mineral resources at our disposal, we still live in abject poverty; mendicants hither and thither, malnourished children, illiteracy swelling up, violence in crannies-all these are traceable to our profligacy. We are rich but live in penury; we are blessed but live accursed, resources abound but frittered or fleeced with inhumanity. Ours is a gory, ambivalent story.

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It is indeed disheartening.
The rich keeps getting richer and the poor poorer.

Nice poem @baboyed1000, unfortunately as long as money run this world there will always exist poverty...

Exactly. It's shameful how this world works. Sad but very true. 😔

Nigeria we hail thee. I was listening to a man from Kenya this morning where he consistently said we are so blessed with so much resources but it is so degrading that we still live in abject poverty. God will intervene bro

There are so many living below the poverty line while insensitivity takes its toil all round. 20% of people controlling 80% of our wealth while 80% people try to hang on to just 20% of wealth. Unhealthy and uneven distribution of wealth. It is really disheartening. Gross wickedness. Travesty!