We know about them from the radio and television and the hungry getting hungrier by the day <br />But we do not hear the sobs of the starving children from where we live they seem so far away <br />On the six o clock news at times we do see footage of hungry <br />children in a Land where poverty and disease is rife <br />And we feel a twinge of sadness that we cannot help them since we have got our own struggles in life. <br /> <br />Still the sobs of the hungry children are growing louder and <br />not all of them live in a far Country <br />And not all of them in the slums of the big city there's such a thing as hidden poverty <br />The single mother raises her brood on welfare and she has to struggle for to make ends meet <br />And they survive on bread and tea and milk and cornflakes since she cannot afford to buy them meat. <br /> <br />Banks and corporations make billions in yearly profits and we read and hear of their financial gain <br />But they don't help to feed the starving children and the growing scourge of poverty remain <br />A mile from where the billionaire lives there's poverty and hunger yet of their plight he does not wish to know <br />Still for him to grow wealthier others must grow poorer and <br />life goes on as it did years ago. <br /> <br />To find want you don't have that far to travel for poverty is everywhere and near <br />And though the starving children keep on sobbing louder their cries for food we do not seem to hear <br />And sad to say that those who talk and dream of an egalitarian society will never live to see their dreams come true <br />And in a World where there is want and hunger the majority of the World's wealth still with the wealthy few.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sobs-of-the-starving-children/
