A Sorry Sight

This particular sorry sight sits outside the house next door. I’m sure its owner doesn’t see it as a sorry sight. He’s a keen ‘offroad’ driver so to him it’s probably the epitome of ‘macho’!!

Macbeth: [Looking on his hands] This is a sorry sight.

*Macbeth’s hands are a "sorry sight"—they're covered with the blood of King Duncan, whom he has just murdered. Macbeth seems to fuse several related meanings of "sorry." On one hand, the sight is "painful" or "distressing"; on the other, it provokes remorse and sorrow. We use "sorry sight" in a somewhat weaker sense than Macbeth did; we mean "pathetic spectacle." Serious pain or true regret is rarely involved.
*enotes/shakespeare quotes

The World’s a Sorry sight!
The rich get richer
The poor get poorer
The weak get weaker
The strong stay strong
That’s what’s wrong
Coudn’t we put it right?

A poem in the true sense of the meaning of the phrase, with serious pain and true regret.