Only For People Like Me Poem by Francis Duggan

For my age little in money and assets i do have to show
And of life and it's ways not much i seem to know
But each day i can say i learn something new
And those who can say that are more than a few
Like many i struggle just to make end meet
There are battlers like me living on every street
We do have life choices as some like to say
For some but not everyone it is that way
Not for the children of homeless parents in dire poverty
Or not for the children of a refugee
Or not for the children with parents in jail
From an early age they are condemned to fail
Life choices are only for people like me
Therefore i do not have an excuse for my poverty.