Causes of Crime

And while in places this is true, it isn’t all the time;

Many people who are poor are honest as the day,

And thoughts of turning criminal just never come their way;

They don’t indulge in violence and would never start a fight;

Despite their lack of money they can tell what’s wrong from right;

Their principles ensure that they live lives beyond reproach,

Where anti-social acts are not permitted to encroach;

And there are many wealthy men, including billionaires,

Who feel the right to steal and cheat is definitely theirs;

They pay their staff low wages, while they cream off all the cash,

By varied and intricate schemes, to build a bigger cache;

Their wealth grows bigger every year as lawyers all ensure

No-one can prove they are but crooks, who often rob the poor.

The wealthy can be violent too, as often has been shown,

And beating up their rivals even now is not unknown;

It isn’t poverty that drives the rich man on to steal,

He doesn’t need the money to provide a needed meal;

Nor does it make him violent, with a temper which is short,

Threatening all the people who within his world are caught.

Men are rarely drawn to crime through any actual need,

But due to lack of principles and self-control and greed.