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past/present problems-famine

past/present problems-famine

Past and present problems

Food/famine

Different tastes different likes

Some like cake, some like fries

We all eat at different times

Like at a weeding, or when someone dies

But some don’t get a choice

Cause they’re not allowed to have a voice

They get no food, they’re always hungry

They ask for help, but you don’t, just because they’re from another country

Mistreatment and unfairness are in the plenty

Traits you’d expect from the dark ages are being shown presently

They asked for your help so many times, but you’ve just put them in the dark

Are you happy now you’ve left your mark?

There is no food in sight, but you hear a distant bark

You find a starving dog and a frightened boy

You stop and yell out “he’s no toy”!

The dog turns and you feel dread

You see behind him, someone dead

You start to run, dead ahead

But you stop strait away as you see where the boy has bled                

So you impale the dog on a stick, and he dies

The boy begins to cry

You ask him why

He tells you his tale, of him and his dog

You feel as if you’d just killed god

You drop to your knees

And beg to him, “Oh please

End my misery”

You start to feel dizzy

The boy looks at you, with hungry eyes

And so you die

This is what happens when people starve, they go mad

And yet we throw so much away, its more than bad

This should really make you sad

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Christopher Correia

amazing work, Rosella parker (welcome, hope you feel the good vibes) at first I thought you had replicated the same poem by mistake, but nada, this one takes a different spin on the same theme, both are well done, war is horrifying in so many ways, sadly it seems to be in  the nature of man, it is quite sad, your poem paints a picture....as Marlon Brando said in Apocalypse Now...'the horror, the horror'....a relevant poem, makes one think, cheers poet   

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