I've heard much talk of Darfur though I've never been to there <br />Where people only live in hope and die slowly in despair <br />The tragic footage of there on the t v news brings it all home to me <br />Of what it must be like for those who live in abject poverty. <br /> <br />In a Land of war and droughts and famines where war lords rule by fear <br />Of any feel good and happy stories we never seem to hear <br />Where people die of hunger in their thousands every day <br />Man's inhumanity to man is alive and well today. <br /> <br />Where men and women look old before they reach their prime <br />To be born in the wrong place ought not to be a crime <br />The seeds they've planted for food have died and the parched ground is cracked and dry <br />And the warlords steal their food aid and the people starve and die. <br /> <br />A million people hungry for every billionaire <br />And the super wealthy getting wealthier doesn't life seem so <br />unfair <br />And poverty has it's root cause in man's inhumanity to man <br />And I feel sure that wealthy people also live in Darfur in Sudan. <br /> <br />Of late I have heard much news of Darfur and I've seen sad footage on t v <br />Of people due to no fault of their own in the worst of poverty <br />In a drought stricken Land ruled by Warlords the innocent die young <br />And are buried in mass graves and their praises remain unsung.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-ve-heard-much-talk-of-darfur/
