Bureaucrats and Poor

If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still. The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields. ~ Ecclesiastes 5:8-9

Bureaucrats and poor you’ll always have.
Taxes on tariffs on taxes.
Laws mandate fairness despite common sense
while the poor dig through garbage for food.
People help people
with minimal waste.
Nations waste dollars
to give poor folks dimes.
Why go through bureaus, agencies, nations?
Is person-to-person too hard?
Maybe. Up close and
personal is
just so personal.

God, grant me the courage to love your
people,
to see through the dirt and despair.

Barbara B. Rollins A Time for Verse - Poetic Ponderings on Ecclesiastes