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Why is life full of struggle?
Some are rich while others poor.
Some people have so much wealth.
They don't know where and how to spend.
While others cry for a piece of bread.
Having no food to eat, no place for rest.
Some people lead a life of luxury.
Full of pleasures with no need and no worry.
While some beg in front of others.
And are insulted and abused in return.
In the cold and stormy night,
They try to sleep on the road side.
Their childhood is like a broken dream
Lost in hunger like an empty stream.
Life to them is full of curse
Full of miseries and troubles.
They welcome death
as it sets them free.
From a world where rich are respected
and poor deceived.
No one cries after they have gone.
They become unknown and go unsung.

BY: AISHA SUZUKI aka Mimi

*I wrote this poem when I visited a little village in India. This is what I saw and it made me heartbroken.*

i sympathize for those in india. i sympathize not jus for those in india because i sympathize for those in need throughout the whole world. this world is not a fair world. this world is full of horrible cruel people, but this world i think will not exist without poor people. why do i say this? i find that everything in this world is made of contrasts. without up there is no down. without right there is no wrong. by this same analogy, without the rich there is no poor. it is our purpose to help those in need, but pragmatically thinking nevertheless how horrible the situation is, poverty will never end. same situation as crime. these horrible situations would never end because without them we would not be on earth. so by all this, i figure that we are never stopping to help those in need and we will never end. isn't this ironic? no matter how hard one tries to do something, the ends will never justify the means because the end of our purpose will never be reached!!! that is the paradox of human life. we try so hard, yet all we get is more of what we try to get rid of!

this question, we have all asked ourselves this question once or twice in our years of living some make it there job to care and other just use the poor like slave to save money on there businesses that what see when you look at sweatshops that major retail keep up they don't shed a tear for anyone they havent been seeing it like that the poor are poor so that they can use them for their money uses all they see is their gain and other cold hard sweat to use to build their business. that and everything in this world has seem to be surrounder by the fact that money make everything work and we're just the cash cow's piggy bank and we'll never run out. sad isnt it?