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Array ( [sid] => 130419 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Hunger [time] => 2007-01-12 00:11:11 [hometext] => [bodytext] => I have never made your acquaintance
but you have seen me around.
Every time you take the train downtown
and pass me on the street, pleading for your
charity, asking for your scraps to eat.

I’m in the schools – in the empty bellies
of the children trying to feed their minds.
I’m in those commercials you despise
The ones showing kids picking through the trash
to find a meal for their family
like a half rotten piece of fruit
Images so cruel, you have to shut your eyes

I live in those make believe places in your mind
Countries that don’t really exist
in a world as affluent as your own
Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti.

One thing you didn’t know –
I live next door.
I’m the empty plate of the mother
who had to choose between dinner
and her son’s asthma medication.

You’ve never met me but you know me so well.
[comments] => 2 [counter] => 216 [topic] => 41 [informant] => just_smile_all_the_time [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 8 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => political )

Hunger

Contributed by just_smile_all_the_time on Friday, 12th January 2007 @ 12:11:11 AM in AEST
Topic: political

I have never made your acquaintance
but you have seen me around.
Every time you take the train downtown
and pass me on the street, pleading for your
charity, asking for your scraps to eat.

I’m in the schools – in the empty bellies
of the children trying to feed their minds.
I’m in those commercials you despise
The ones showing kids picking through the trash
to find a meal for their family
like a half rotten piece of fruit
Images so cruel, you have to shut your eyes

I live in those make believe places in your mind
Countries that don’t really exist
in a world as affluent as your own
Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti.

One thing you didn’t know –
I live next door.
I’m the empty plate of the mother
who had to choose between dinner
and her son’s asthma medication.

You’ve never met me but you know me so well.

Copyright Â© just_smile_all_the_time ... [ 2007-01-12 00:11:11]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Hunger (User Rating: 1 )
by deadheadpoet on Friday, 12th January 2007 @ 12:21:28 AM AEST
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Whooahh extremely powerful write. My god it really touched my heart. I'm crying almost every friggen day over this world and what the hell is going on here. War, famine, poverty...dammit. With so much food in this world, no one should have to make a damn choice like that. This write really stirred my soul. Well done.
Write on...
Peace, Laura

Re: Hunger (User Rating: 1 )
by shelby on Friday, 12th January 2007 @ 01:40:50 AM AEST
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Entire write tugged at my heart strings but the ending slugged me in the pit of my tummy. Im with Laura on this noone should have to be faced with such decissions in our world today it sadens me so.

Thanks for taking such a heart wrenching fact of our world and writing it with such grace and class.

Michelle

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