Simply

Until the last starving person is fed,

Until the unemployed have a job,

Until the homeless have a home,

From the poor, I shall not rob.

While creatures shiver in the cold,

While even one suffers conditions dire,

While people die from curable disease,

A life of luxury I shall not desire.

I cannot own a Porsche, a Lexus,

While homes are lost to fire and flood.

How dare I purchase this sprawling mansion

While human beings spill each other’s blood?

This money is for helping others,

And I’ll live simply till I see

The day (which, yes, may never come)

When all on earth are at last free.