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Jul 2015
They are in suits.
In ties.
In dresses.
In make-up.
In pearls.
In Rolex watches.

The people who think they're the best
and act like they're the best.
The people who live
so comfortably
that they forgot
what poor feels like
or even looks like.

They forgot what it's like
to feel humble,
kind,
giving.

They look at the poor
or the people on the streets
begging for just one more meal,
and they turn away,
with their billions of money
bulging out of their pockets.
They turn away
without any guilt
or remorse
or sympathy.
They turn away
and still manage
to think only about themselves.
They turn away
and act like the homeless people just blend into the street,
like the poor are invisible.

They live so rich
and feel so powerful
with their money,
with their businesses,
with their stocks in the market,
with their greed,
that they live like kings and queens.
While the rest of us are left
forced to scrape up what they left behind.
Hailey Ngo
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Hailey Ngo  United States
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