indigence

the disparity alarming,
disconcerting and disarming
till despairing
I throw up my hands
unable to understand
the distance between
affluence and indigence
or how the ones
who hoard like dragons
then would blame
those with nothing
for the same
or attempt to reframe
their wealth as won not stole
when they dig a cavern
throw the others in
and attribute them the hole
deny them rope or ladders or
a surface they could climb
weigh them down with stones
and chide them for each rest
and then call them lazy
for not passing some imaginary test
that they themselves would fail
were they so oppressed