Poverty in Africa

I visited a shanty town, in Africa no less, the people there were starving, living in a mess

They didn’t ever complain, and still gave out a smile, even though their dying and bringing up just bile

They walked miles for there water, which could kill a healthy man, it was very heavy, brown water in a can

They tried to feed their children with anything the could,  they tried to grind up paper and even sucked on wood

The charities and aid workers, they tried there very best, a never ending tide of humans, weak and needing rest

Education needed, so they can grow there food, be given contraception, even if its crude

Disease is rife, food is scarce,  and water is unsafe, the western world just watches, its really a disgrace.

We watch the people dying, and go to work for gain, we bury our heads ,and forget about them, we so should feel some shame

It’s the 21st century , this shouldn’t happen at all, we all live on a knife edge, and fortunes could just fall.

The West could give our food gluts, the amount we give to waste, why could not these people, be given it to taste ?.

 People die every day and  really its not funny, but the reason the world lets them die, is really down to money

By steven Lee